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I think both are disrespectful, and so I wouldn't like either. But hey -- if you want to wear that in your personal life, with your friends, at party, whatever, that's your choice; you can bear the social consequences of your own actions.

But at work, wearing such a thing is inappropriate -- either for men of for women. It is simply not OK, in a professional environment, for *anyone* to wear something which communicates to any of your colleagues, "What I want from you primarily is that you look hot".

In this case, it gets worse than that. It's not just one guy, and he's not just representing himself. He's on world-wide TV, representing his little corner of the scientific community: a community which has traditionally been very male-dominated, and has been statistically proven, in the past, to discriminate against women.

So, what does it say to the average woman in STEM fields, or considering entering STEM fields, that this scientist thought it would be perfectly OK to wear a shirt that says, "What I want from you primarily is for you to look hot" on world-wide TV? And not only that, but all of his colleagues thought it was OK as well?

In that context, the message the shirt communicates changes from "I will objectify you" to "I and all my colleagues will objectify you if you come to work in my field".

That's what the uproar is about.

So some of the differences between these two pictures:

* Women wearing skimpy clothing does not demean guys in any way. This guy wearing a t-shirt with hot women on it *does* communicate "I only like you because you're hot", which *does* demean women. (Women wearing a shirt with Chippendales on it communicates the same thing to men.)

* None of the women marching are suggesting that hey should be allowed to walk around in bras and panties, or even nightclub outfits with short skirts and low necklines at work, much less *when giving an interview on TV*.

* The guy isn't being judged even so much that he wore the shirt individually, but that he wore it *while publicly representing* a community which has had history of being sexist.