So I go away for a few hours and now @instapundit's not allowed to have opinions? Great job, internet. — Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) November 15, 2014

“So how are things going for feminism?” asks Glenn Reynolds, aka Instapundit, in an opinion piece published in Saturday’s edition of USA Today. “Well, last week they took one of the great achievements of human history — landing a probe from Earth on a comet hundreds of millions of miles away— and made it all about the clothes.”

As Twitchy reported, “slutshirt shamed” British physicist Matt Taylor of the Rosetta probe project gave a tearful apology Friday for demonstrating “casual misogyny” in his choice of attire for the day of the comet landing. Many on Twitter came to Taylor’s defense: “Can we make a bigger deal out of nothing?” asked one tweeter.

Reynolds took his defense of Taylor to USA Today, calling the incident “one small shirt for a man, one giant leap backward for womankind.”

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: How feminists took a major scientific event and made it all about what people were wearing. http://t.co/R2QKDqvc3s — Instapundit.com (@instapundit) November 15, 2014

“It seems to me that if you care about women in STEM,” he adds, “maybe you shouldn’t want to communicate the notion that they’re so delicate that they can’t handle pictures of comic-book women. Will we stock our Mars spacecraft with fainting-couches?”

That will have to wait; Reynolds’ article is proof that there’s a terrible shortage of fainting-couches here on earth. To further illustrate the backlash against Taylor, Reynolds quoted a tweet in which The Atlantic’s Rose Eveleth wrote, “No no women are toooootally welcome in our community, just ask the dude in this shirt.” But is it true that he “doxxed” her too, a la Anonymous? That’s crazy.

Screw it. I'm going to write and listen to Shostakovich. You all have fun doxxing women "to teach them lessons." It's the @instapundit way. — Dylan Wilbanks (@dylanw) November 15, 2014

Huh? Where did this ridiculous (and defamatory) “doxxing” idea come from? Here?

#Liar MT @docfreeride Glenn Reynolds has doxxed @roseveleth.Putting women in fear for their safety is the American way, y'all. @instapundit — ryuge (@0ryuge) November 15, 2014

Correction: Glenn Reynolds has encouraged his flying monkeys to go after @roseveleth & someone has doxxed her. #PlausibleDeniability — Janet D. Stemwedel (@docfreeride) November 15, 2014

@instapundit @0ryuge @docfreeride @roseveleth And 'his flying monkeys' means 'people totally unrelated to him over whom he has no control.' — Jon Ireland (@jrireland1) November 15, 2014

@jrireland1 @instapundit @0ryuge @roseveleth You think if he asked them to stop & gave good reasons why they wouldn't? — Janet D. Stemwedel (@docfreeride) November 15, 2014

Another lie @docfreeride @roseveleth Glenn Reynolds has encouraged his flying monkeys to go after @roseveleth & someone has doxxed her. — Zaggs (@Zaggs) November 15, 2014

@docfreeride I wasn't aware calling someone "horrible" and pointing out her actions equated to Doxxing. @Zaggs @roseveleth — M3_GuSta (@HLandfill) November 15, 2014

@brennawalks @kejames @roseveleth Note that Glenn Reynolds DID NOT dox Rose (someone else did), just sicced others on her. — Janet D. Stemwedel (@docfreeride) November 15, 2014

No, he did not. Retract and apologize. MT @docfreeride: Note that @instapundit DID NOT dox Rose, just sicced others on her. — Natevember (@NathanWurtzel) November 15, 2014

@docfreeride @roseveleth All I did was quote her. You are making a false accusation. — Instapundit.com (@instapundit) November 15, 2014

@docfreeride @roseveleth You're going to need to cite the tweet or post that you're referring to here. Except that it doesn't exist. — Joel Engel (@joelengel) November 15, 2014

@docfreeride @roseveleth Wait…Something someone else did to her is Reynolds fault? He encouraged no one. You are doing the same thing here — Jerald Rowlett (@JeraldRowlett) November 15, 2014

.@docfreeride Show me where @instapundit encouraged others to "go after" @roseveleth? Why do you try to smear people you disagree with? — AG (@AG_Conservative) November 15, 2014

@docfreeride @roseveleth You are a liar. He did no such thing whatsoever and you know it. You're dishonest to the core. — Nina (@NinaMarieMcK) November 15, 2014

People in my TL want you to know that @instapundit is a totally responsible guy who wishes no harm to anyone. I cannot prove otherwise, so… — Janet D. Stemwedel (@docfreeride) November 15, 2014

1/n @docfreeride And yet, @instapundit chose to called out one woman much less powerful than he as "a horrible person" … — Thomas Levenson (@TomLevenson) November 15, 2014

“@TomLevenson: And yet, @instapundit chose to called out one woman much less powerful than he"She writes for Atlantic. Made scientist cry. — Instapundit.com (@instapundit) November 15, 2014

@instapundit @TomLevenson So she can start the #shirtstorm then cry foul when she gets called on it. Convenient standard you have there. — lauren (@LilMissRightie) November 15, 2014

4/4 @docfreeride Or, perhaps @instapundit is a dishonest hack picking on those who can't strike back in ways that comfort him malign soul. — Thomas Levenson (@TomLevenson) November 15, 2014

@TomLevenson @instapundit She used her position to humiliate a man over a shirt.You don't think she deserves criticism? — Waffle721 (@waffle721) November 15, 2014

@TomLevenson You bullied him into apologizing on the eve of his scientific breakthrough. That's *not* humiliation? @instapundit — Amy (@moderncomments) November 15, 2014

@TomLevenson It clearly was a lynch mob. The guy did something spectacular and he got more press bc of a gd shirt. That's horrific. — lauren (@LilMissRightie) November 15, 2014

Yeah, I bet The Angry Internet People are going to get @instapundit to cower in fear. Seems like a good use of their time. — Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) November 15, 2014

So, writing lengthy accusation of sexism over a shirt: Groovy. Writing criticism of said column: Doxxing. #hypocrisy @instapundit — Ed Morrissey (@EdMorrissey) November 16, 2014

Here's a #protip – Do not go into the social-criticism field if you can't take criticism for your arguments. @instapundit — Ed Morrissey (@EdMorrissey) November 16, 2014

One more #protip: No one is responsible for threats except the person that makes them, not others who only criticize you. @instapundit — Ed Morrissey (@EdMorrissey) November 16, 2014

So I stepped away for a day and apparently crazy people are libeling @instapundit on the theory he doesn't know what libel is or something? — Thomas H. Crown (@ThomasHCrown) November 16, 2014

Something like that.

Hey @docfreeride, you should listen to @instapundit. I've literally collected millions of reasons why. — Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) November 15, 2014

Excellent advice. And maybe read his piece in USA Today. Carefully.

@instapundit ok. I've now read your column 10 times. What in the Hell are they talking about? Was there a secret subliminal font I missed? — richard nusbaum (@attyrik) November 16, 2014

Editor’s note: The headline of this post was edited to correct a typo.