#3’s cool. #4 - No, but severe harassment isn’t ok. Death threats, rape threats, etc I think is more than being mean.
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#6 - “People saying things we don’t like” I think is different than promoting violent, fascist, etc worldviews.
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#7 - I don’t think you really understand what a safe space is based on this. #8 - FGM is popularly fetishized by alt-right racists, for sure
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#9 - You can walk and chew gum at the same time. I don’t think we should ignore
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(BTW, can I say as an astronomer, that Taylor's shirt was such a slap in the face to planetary scientists dealing with
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I'd find the attitude that I can't cope with a man wearing a shirt with cartoon ladies on it rather insulting.
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Hi Regina, the planetary scientists could cope with it, they were just understandably upset. I just don't think we should discount them.
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I'm afraid I don't see what's so upsetting about it. Should we really be encouraging people to be upset by trivialities?
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That's understandable - if you ask a woman astronomer, they could probably explain why it wasn't trivial for them what it represented.
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There really was near-unanimous revulsion in our community, at least among women scientists.
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How deeply depressing. You'd hope they'd be role models for the empowerment of women.
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