Um, not well. Near the beginning of the conflict that has played out, about two days ago, one of the principal feminists behind the storm, Dr. Janet Stemwedel, a Philosophy professor in San Francisco, wrote up a brief bit of propaganda on “Storify” for “science guys” to help them understand what was going on and what was at stake. If women like Dr. Stemwedel represent most women, as she claims with some authority, then you would expect her Storify blurb, which has been prominently featured on the very active #shirtstorm and #shirtgate hashtag threads for two days, to have about a 50% favorability rating in terms of “likes” accumulated; perhaps more if men support her thesis, as well. Let’s see how it’s doing.
At the time of this writing, 4 of the over 6000 viewers “liked” her little visual presentation about how academic interpretations of “women’s experiences” should drive policy on just about everything. By my calculation, that’s a percentage of… oh dear… 0.06%. That’s essentially zero. More than the likely number of accidental clicks. In my limited blogging experience, I have never seen a comment or an opinion by any troll who is intentionally trying to upset people and who is viewed by 6000 people get fewer than dozens of “likes.” Nobody knows why, but even the vilest internet trolls get more likes than this. This message is profoundly unpopular. If you want to know why, you can go to her Twitter feed here and see if you can figure out why she is still employed in academia and allowed to claim that she represents women everywhere.
How are the #ShirtStorm Feminists Doing in their Twitter Crusade?
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Just want to point out that the comment stream at ESA Comet Lander is about this topic and has some good stuff in it.
https://polination.wordpress.com/2014/11/13/esa-comet-lander-fails-to-anchor-perched-on-cliff-but-the-real-story-turns-out-to-be-criminal-sexism-among-esa-rocket-scientists/
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Chrissy, thank you, thank you, thank you for commenting here. I’ve been worked up about this for days and was posting additionally over on my blog and was getting discouraged by the lack of any feedback whatsoever by anyone. I knew some of the gals here might have been put off by the garishness of Dr. Taylor’s shirt and so not been inclined to dig deeper into the ludicrousness of the brewing storm, which I could understand, but I was getting discouraged nonetheless. Thanks! 🙂
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Grunt–its been irritating the crap outta me, too. But since I’m doing nanowrimo this year, my current blog-reading time is very limited. I’m very determined to complete the challenge this year, but its Anton of work!
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Oh no worries, Zoph. Best of luck with the writing challenge! I know you’re up to it.
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She’s been posting her word counts on Facebook. Doing good so far!
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“Yes, feminists have been telling us for years that women can wear whatever they want, and for men to comment in any way is sexism. But that’s obviously a double standard, since they evidently feel no compunction whatsoever in criticizing what men wear.”
“Time magazine last week ran an online poll of words that should be retired from the English language. The winner — by an enormous margin — was ‘feminist’.”
“If self-proclaimed feminists have nothing more to offer than that sort of bullying, then their obsolescence is well deserved.”
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/11/15/shirt-comet-girls-feminism-column/19083607/
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I get really irritated with men who think women are stupid, and I get even more irritated with women who supply such men with more ammunition.
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That really should go on your quote of the day board. I’m going to put it on mine. Men are enchanted with brilliant women, especially if they are endowed with other qualities, besides, like confidence and humility and wisdom. It is unfortunate that the superficial dominates ALL our discourse.
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No kidding. I read an article recently by some rabid feminazi who was ranting about how much she hates women who don’t work outside the home, and unlike most feminazis, she wasn’t content simply to label such women as traitors to the sisterhood — she actually blamed them for the fact that men think women are stupid. I kid you not. She said that caring for a home and children does not qualify as “work,” because work is something you get paid to do, and being a full-time homemaker/mother doesn’t fit that description. Consequently, women who choose to do that instead of going out and getting paying jobs like they’re supposed to are stupid, and therefore responsible for the low opinion that men have of women.
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Ironic, that. 😉 Yet tragic.
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So what she is saying is that “Women’s Liberation” meant women HAVE to act like men. And here I thought it meant that women who weren’t content with the traditional roles should be free to explore careers in traditionally male dominated areas. Silly me.
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So now, instead of having MORE choices, women have fewer choices. Thanks for nothing, feminists.
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That is one AWESOME TWEET!
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