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The Woman Who Should Have Been the First Female Astronaut
StartsWithABang writes We like to think of the Mercury 7 — the very first group of NASA astronauts — as the "best of the best," having been chosen from a pool of over 500 of the top military test pilots after three rounds of intense physical and mental tests. Yet when women were allowed to take the same tests, one of them clearly distinguished herself, outperforming practically all of the men. If NASA had really believed in merit, Jerrie Cobb would have been the first female in space, even before Valentina Tereshkova, more than 50 years ago. She still deserves to go.
Wtf happened to Slashdot? There's a story like this posted 5 times a week now, and I'm getting really sick of it. Donglegate, women hula hooping at GitHub, failed female astronauts, and a ton of other non-stories get posted here. And then a million femnazis come out of the woodwork and post as AC in support of the thesis that "All women would be super-rich internet entrepreneurs were it not for the developer-king patriarchs ruling Silicon Valley", ie "Boys are mean and girls are sugar and spice and everything nice".
Walter Isaacson "singles out the achievements of unheralded women" in computing in his latest book, and absurdly pretends that nobody ever heard of Ada Lovelace any credit..
STOP WHINING ALREADY YOU SOUND LIKE A BUNCH OF SPOILED BRATS
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Where do you see racism in his post? All I see is an accurate analysis of the racism that was shown by people in the past.
It was widely known that physiologically and psychologically a woman is better suited for space flights
Careful, you are contradicting PC axiom that men and women are equal in all things, including any psychological predispositions.
His post implies that white people are sexist.
That is racist.
YOU SEXIST. She is a woman... there cannot be anything more qualified than her.... Except... perhaps... a lesbian woman.