Shirtgate
English
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[edit]Shirtgate
- (informal) A 2014 controversy in which a shirt worn by scientist Matt Taylor at an informal interview associated with the European Space Agency landing of a probe on a comet was branded sexist by some viewers on social media.
- 2016, Jerry Barnett, Porn Panic!: Sex and Censorship in the UK:
- The backfiring of Shirtgate created a temporary pause in the Big Panic, and revealed a basic truth. Most people appeared to have no objection to the kinds of expression that were now being presented as sexist.
References
[edit]- Usenet newsgroups: [1]