We Need to Start Believing Each Other

Straight up.

I woke up this morning and this was on my mind. Flipped through more of the commentary on the latest feminism-in-STEM debate – Dr. Matt Taylor’s decision to wear a colourful shirt covered in scantily-clad women during the video livestream of the ESA’s Rosetta mission.

And in answer to one commenter’s opinion that Kim Kardashian is doing more to harm women’s causes than one scientist wearing an inappropriate shirt: the Kim Kardashians of this world exist, in part, due to insidious, ever-present, and super-subtle discrimination that make women like her believe that using their sexuality is a good…