If you haven’t heard the news by now, the European Space Agency landed a probe on a comet, and that was cause for hoorahs for about three minutes. Unfortunately one of the scientists was seen wearing a shirt that had pictures of ’50s-style sci-fi pin-ups, and this ruined space for women forever.
Or so certain portions of the Internet insisted. A shirt with cartoony mid-century vixens pointing ray guns sends a message to women that they are not welcome in science unless they dress like Jayne Mansfield in Housewives from the Moon. The scientist was required to apologize on camera for his shirt, although he was not required to remove his penis and cauterize the wound with a blowtorch. (First offense, after all.)
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