In another powerful article (below), Janice Fiamengo provides argument and evidence for her claim that women can’t build civilisations, but they can sure wreck them. I would ask the men reading her article to pause and think about, meditate on, and contemplate the case of Matt Taylor and #Shirtstorm.
This is a paradigm case of a vicious, irrational feminist mob attack on a high-achieving man for a triviality. Don’t worry about the astounding scientific achievement Matt Taylor was celebrating. No, talk about his shirt, a shirt, incidentally, gifted to him by a female friend. On this shirt, the feminist mob ballooned a scenario about misogyny that could hardly be contained.
How are men to deal with such frequent feminist mob attacks? They happen all the time. In Australia, we have a permanent feminist media mob that goes into action for a misplaced male comma.
This is a question that men have to think about deeply and carefully. They have to do what feminists have done so successfully over fifty years. Organise and counterattack.
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Women Can’t Build Civilization
But they sure can wreck it
Janice Fiamengo, Apr 20, 2026
The case of Matt Taylor and #Shirtstorm was the last straw for me.
In 2014, a chorus of angry women and their male enablers roasted British astrophysicist Matt Taylor for wearing an “inappropriate” shirt for a historic occasion. Taylor was part of a European Space Agency team, the Rosetta Mission, that sent a probe four billion miles through space to land on a comet, a journey of ten years.
But that achievement was overshadowed by Taylor’s alleged masculine insensitivity. To discuss his team’s success, he had worn a bowling shirt decorated with images of scantily-clad gamer-style female characters. The shirt had been made for Taylor as a birthday present by a female friend.
The doyennes of social media went berserk, charging that the shirt was a symbol of sexism in science, with men like Taylor living emblems of the not-so-subtle hostility that was keeping women out STEM research.
The outrage grew until the comet was essentially forgotten amidst the frenzy of hysteria and grandstanding.
At one point, Verge magazine published a headline emphasizing the infantile equivalency: “I don’t care if you landed a spacecraft on a comet, your shirt is sexist and ostracizing.” The sub-heading drove the point home: “That’s one small step for man, three steps back for humankind.”
A number of the commentators hadn’t even looked closely enough at the shirt to see its design.
“The fact that a scientist of any gender, but especially a man, would think it’s a good idea to wear a shirt covered in naked women while representing a major space agency and a significant research project is appalling,” wrote one, failing to realize that none of the characters was naked, “and clearly, he had no idea that he was engaging in exactly the kind of casual sexism that drives women away from STEM.”