Badass space dude completely fails at answering dumbass feminist

I guess most folks have heard that the European Space Agency landed a probe spacecraft on a comet the other day. It's a big deal, as no one has done it before. It took a 10-year flight to hook up with the comet. This is a difficult task that took a long time to accomplish. Guess what feminists are worried about?

The shirt worn by one of the scientists responsible for this accomplishment:

Yesterday the European Space Agency landed the Philae spacecraft on a comet, a powerful step forward for humanity and science alike. However, slightly before the big moment, coverage of the event reminded us how much progress remains to be accomplished back on Earth.
A number of the scientists involved on this incredible project were interviewed in the hours leading to contact by Nature Newsteam. One of those Rosetta scientists was Matt Taylor, who chose to dress, for this special occasion, in a bowling shirt covered in scantly clad caricatures of sexy women in provocative poses.
"This is going to be a very long day but a very exciting day," said Taylor. "I think everyone should enjoy it because we're making history."
No one knows why Taylor chose to wear that shirt on television during a massive scientific mission. From what we can tell, a woman who goes by the name of Elly Prizeman on Twitter made the shirt for him, and is just as bewildered as he must be that anyone might be upset about her creation. Taylor apologized on Friday during a live ESA broadcast for wearing the shirt, stating that "the shirt I wore this week... I made a big mistake and I offended many people, and I'm very sorry about this." Still, Taylor's personal apology doesn't make up for the fact that no one at ESA saw fit to stop him from representing the Space community with clothing that demeans 50 percent of the world's population. No one asked him to take it off, because presumably they didn't think about it. It wasn't worth worrying about.
This is the sort of casual misogyny that stops women from entering certain scientific fields. They see a guy like that on TV and they don't feel welcome. They see a poster of greased up women in a colleague's office and they know they aren't respected. They hear comments about "bitches" while out at a bar with fellow science students, and they decide to change majors.

Guess what? Science is fucking hard. Yeah, most scientist are men. Is this because most scientists wear "offensive" shirts, or make comments about "bitches," or otherwise make women feel unwelcome? No. There are lots of reasons. But a shirt is not one of them. In science, you put forward an idea -- a hypothesis -- about something you think might be so. The scientific method then requires every other scientist in your field to try and rip your idea to shreds and prove how fucking wrong you are. Usually, they do. Then you come up with another hypothesis, and it all starts again. If you can't handle what kind of shirt the dude ripping your life's work to pieces is wearing, do you seriously think you can handle the same dude ripping your life's work to pieces, regardless of what he's wearing?

People, women or otherwise, do not choose against entering the scientific fields because of fashion choices. It's because they aren't suited for the work. Period. The shirts worn by scientists are the least of the problems facing potential scientists. The sciences are brutal. They are not for the faint of heart, because your work will be attacked. If your main concern is what your intellectual attackers are wearing, you are in the wrong business.

Matt Taylor should not have cried and apologized. He should have said something like this:

I wore a shirt that some people didn't like while I helped achieve something historic. My shirt is not why there were not more women in the room. If you think I'm wrong, fuck you. Go to MIT, get your damn astrophysics or whatever degree and prove me wrong. Oh, wait, you can't handle a shirt, so I know damn well you can't handle what it takes to get an advanced science degree. So I guess we're back to fuck you.