MY USA TODAY COLUMN IS UP EARLY: 1 small shirt for a man, 1 giant leap backward for women: How feminists took a major scientific event and made it all about what people were wearing.

UPDATE: Sarah Hoyt: No Space For Sewing Circles. “Why a woman who can’t even do her own research for her own articles should be allowed to bully a man who as part of a team (incidentally led by a woman) landed on a comet is beyond me. Or rather it isn’t. It’s a symptom of the sickness in our society.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Well, I don’t know why I bothered to write about this now that Sheldon Cooper has weighed in:

Was Matt Taylor's shirt inappropriate for the workplace, maybe, but it's certainly not sexist nor discouraging women to get into science.

— Dr. Sheldon Cooper (@RealSheldonTBBT) November 14, 2014