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dlb [soylentnews.org] writes:

Scientific American's Doing Good Science [scientificamerican.com] has a take on the shirtstorm controversy partly overshadowing the Rosetta Mission.

On one hand:

There is research on the ways that objectifying messages and images can have a significant negative effect on those in the group being objectified. Objectification, even if it’s unintentional, adds one more barrier ... on women’s participation.

And on the other hand:

Despite Matt Taylor’s apology, legions of people have been asserting that he should not have apologized. They have been insisting that people objecting to his wearing that shirt while representing Rosetta and acting as an ambassador for science were wrong to voice their objections, wrong even to be affected by the shirt.

The article takes issue with those on the other hand.

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