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> "The white, satchel-like tool bag slipped away from two astronauts during a rare, all-female spacewalk." Could have left that in drafts
by yieldcrv 3y ago
> "The white, satchel-like tool bag slipped away from two astronauts during a rare, all-female spacewalk."
Could have left that in drafts
- nerdponx 3y agoApparently the howling masses love it when a woman messes up in space. Try to hold your lunch down while reading the comments here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPV9QpC1JtU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPV9QpC1JtU
- yieldcrv 3y agois it possible that today’s spacewalk was paying homage to the one in 2008?
- 9dev 3y agoOh wow, you’re right. That’s some first class misogynistic bullshit in pretty much every single comment.
- pugworthy 3y agoIt’s here too in a few subtle “wink wink” ways.
- fritzo 3y agoHonest question: are the authors tactically baiting the masses and thereby diverting attention from more difficult to answer questions like budget (at the expense of gender equality), or are they really this crude, nothing deeper? EDIT I mean are they trying to elicit responses like "more men in space" to prevent responses like "less space more healthcare"?
- dotnet00 3y agoI don't think it's either. The PR machine was screaming loudly about the astronauts' gender coming up to the spacewalk. So, it just carried over. It'd be weird to start trying to cover that up just because people might make jokes some find distasteful.
- ReptileMan 3y agoSo could have the NY times couple of years ago with > Why NASA's First All-Women Spacewalk Made History And we have articles in space.com just a week ago >Watch 2 NASA astronauts conduct 4th-ever all-female spacewalk today If all female walks are news, then fuck ups during all female space walks are also news worth pointing.
- yieldcrv 3y agoI sort of agree, if it was merely matter of fact This doesn't read like that though It reads like “looll some women did something incompetent! get a load of this guys”
- ReptileMan 3y agoAnd the original articles are also not stating a matter of fact.
- autoexec 3y ago> It reads like "looll some women did something incompetent! get a load of this guys" I don't think the article was written that way, but I think that it's clear that's how many people would take it. It'd have been nice if the article had listed multiple examples of things being lost during spacewalks and not just the other time a woman did it - assuming there are other previous examples anyway. Searching for that kind of information now is difficult since search engines just want to push whatever the latest story is. A google search for the word "astronauts" alone returns links to news articles about this incident.
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