I
was really pissed off when I read the title to the website The Verge
by Chris Plante and Arielle Duhaime-Ross.
((I
don't care if you landed a spacecraft on a comet, your shirt is
sexist and ostracizing))
I
took some time to sleep on it and let it simmer down for me. The
title of the post pissed me off so much, that I knew I wouldn't be
writing a good piece discussing why this is a problem.
First
off, I am a huge sci-fi guy. I've watched so many hours of Star
Trek/Alien/BSG/Star Wars stuff that it might be considered a
sickness. Being a guy that used to be a C- student and have trouble
with math, I look up to scientists and people in space exploration.
They are doing something I'll never be able to do. They make the
world a more interesting place with their knowledge. We as writers
think things up, they think things up and build them. That's truly
amazing.
Despite
all the horrible things going on this planet right now, the human
race did something astonishing a few days ago. They landed an active
probe on a moving comet. This should be hailed a something profound
and important, because the more we can learn about comets, the more
we learn about the galaxy. Heck, we could actually prevent a comet
from hitting Earth in a few years with this knowledge.
Yet,
out of the Shirtstorm/Shirtgate incident. Some guy named Chris
Plante took that achievement and threw it aside with a “click bait”
title. Was I offended? Nope, but it certainly made me want to write
something about it. I got angry, but not in the same manner as the
people offended by Taylor's shirt.
It
just made be angry because this sort of “pushing aside intelligent
achievements” for political stances is something the far
right-conservatives do. (Globe Warming and Evolution) It one of the
reasons I can't vote for Republicans in most cases, because there is
such a disdain for science and varying views. They're so set in their
bible-thumping ways that the facts will never matter. This article
by Plante is other side of that now. It felt like something the
religious conservatives say about science. “Yeah, but that shirt
was sexist.”
The
left used to be open to discussion and science. And, now we're
seeing it completely tear itself apart for political cache. Despite
the “disturbing” shirt, this should have been an achievement that
we could show the far right religious types that THIS is what science
is capable of. We may disagree with certain things, but humankind
did THIS.
Plante
couldn't help himself and wrote that attack piece against Taylor with
that boneheaded title. This just bothers me to no end. We are
better than this, people. He's talking about a shirt. While I don't
agree with many aspects of the new feminist movement, but I never
thought I'd see them take the conservative route.
I
don't care if a scientists is male or female I look up to them
because they're doing something I can never accomplish...ever.
I
personally didn't think the shirt was appropriate, but it is not the
thing that holds women back in science. People that have a problem
with women in the work environment are the problem NOT the dude
wearing the wrong shirt at the wrong time. That's all. I have a
problem with pushing aside of this achievement for political gain.
I
also find this frustrating because the left is falling into same
problems the black civil rights movement is currently in right now.
We're fighting the wrong battles and just blaming “racism” for
all of our problems as our neighborhoods are continuing to fall
apart. We're refusing to look at our internal problems (such as
education and not turning in crime elements). Yes, we have police
officers killing black people, but let's also look into why black
males are killing so many black males too!
We're quick to use violence to solve problems instead of using our heads. I'm seeing the same thing
happen on a smaller level with the left movements.
So,
now I am going to think up my own click-bait title.
By
the way, I knew something was wrong when I partly agree with Ana
Kasparian.
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