Scientist's shirt signals sexism: Your Say

British scientist Matt Taylor's shirt, depicting scantily clad women, sparked a firestorm of criticism online. He is on the team that successfully landed a spacecraft on a comet. Letter to the editor:

The screed on why people don't like feminists was fifth-grade essay quality ("1 small shirt for a man, 1 giant leap backward for women: Column"). I'm shocked that someone who teaches law would go public with such a simplistic view. Does commentary writer Glenn Harlan Reynolds also believe that all Democrats or Republicans agree on all issues? Or all law professors?

Sheila Sorvari; Austin

Comments from Facebook are edited for clarity and grammar:

Women are pointing out the disrespect inherent in not just the shirt but also in wearing it at an important science event. The objection is not because we're "fragile" but because women in science are routinely low-balled on wages, sexually harassed and glass-ceilinged to death. Women are not respected. The only people who are taken in by talk of whiny feminists are guys who're outraged by having to deal with women as human beings with equal pay and an equal voice at the top tables.

— Sara Smile

The criticism is from people who have never accomplished anything notable trying to push their way into the spotlight shining on a man who has.

— Kent G. Budge

I can walk and chew gum at the same time. I'll celebrate the achievement while shaking my head at the unprofessionalism of a man wearing that shirt to work.

— Eric Marcoullier

I am sick of feminist bigotry. When a woman poses like those scantily clad ladies shown on the shirt in public, she is "celebrating her sexuality." But when a man tries to join the celebration, he's objectifying her.

— Dennis Markham