So, I’m curious if they’re just bowing to trump in extreme desperation to keep federal funding, otherwise they’re out of a job? Or, do they have some maga right wingers in leadership at NASA?
My guess and hope is the former. If true, maybe they have to come off as spineless just to keep being funded. I dunno, just speculating.
My guess is a bit of both. As a woman who’s spent some time working in IT, there are still more than enough men who are pissed at having to include women and would jump at the opportunity to get them out of the door or degrade them as soon as possible. Give them an opportunity like “Oh no, now we have to take those women-related things down. Just in case, gotta keep our funding. Too bad, so sad.” and they’ll jump on it.
Reaction: mixed.
Why: fruit of a poisoned tree.
Elaboration: you want art promoting good things to be sincere, because if it’s not sincere, then it’s not promoting anything, like Disney’s “kinda diversity-aimed” actions toward Star Wars ; art is sincere when it’s not pushed ; when something is promoted by an agency, it’s pushed, even if those making decisions and those making said art share the idea, the former give the latter an order and make it their job.
Context\apology: I think the same about Soviet propaganda art, it may be promoting something good sometimes, but that effect of hierarchy can be felt ; or a few recent movies made about the Armenian Genocide, all intended as a political message about, well, leaving said process unfinished and thus are not interesting as art ; or about FOSS propaganda with almost no effect, if someone remembers those videos about Linux Mint and those FOSS bloggers like Nixie Pixel, that kinda stuff.
What are you on about?
If we survive this, we really should switch to a matriarchal society.
as a treat
And a break! Patriarchy hurts everyone.
You can have a little patriarchy on the full moon, as a treat
Heck, yeah! I can be the Ceremonial Male at special festivals and then just chill and be normal the rest of the time.
Have you not seen tumblr? You’ll just get Elon Musk with a vagina and a hate-on for anyone capable of having a hard-on… Even if they aren’t men.
So an even more mask-off JK Rowling
The problem is too many won’t go for it. I recently met a guy who completely voted against his own best interests just because Kamala was born with a vagina instead of a penis. He admitted it freely, so he knowingly voted for the people who want to make people like him slaves again. It’s absolutely mind boggling.
I’d love to live in a society where no particular gender held most positions of power or had more legislative influence.
Sure, but if we HAD to have a gender in charge, I’d prefer women.
I feel like we’d exchange the Elon Musks of the world for the JK Rowlings of the world, the Ronald Reagans for the Margaret Thatchers, and the Donald Trumps for the Ayn Rands.
“Fairer sex my ass”
The only reason you don’t think women can be evil is because you’re too used to the idea of women as damsels to be rescued, too childish to be a threat to anyone. This is because the patriarchy hates the idea that a woman can be competent moreso than a man, even in acts of evil.
Yupes, good old “benevolent” sexism.
Prejudice, just like the Far-Right, just with different “superior” and “inferior” groups.
Historically the best criteria for selecting people to positions of power is how little they want power, not gender or race.
(Personally I think that’s because people who do not want power see it as a burden, and they do so because for them power is a great responsability towards many others - what sane individuals would ever want to be in a position were they can ruin the lives of countless people by making a mistake - and that’s exactly the kind of people you want to entrust with it, not the ones for whom power is a form of ego-stroking or even a tools for personal upside maximization)
And after 200 years of matriarchy, people would be saying that women are evil and we should have a patriarchy. Whoever holds the power always ends up oppressing whoever doesn’t.
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Statistically, women leaders start more wars than men, so a matriarchal society signs us up for more war. The group statistically likely to start less wars is former soldiers, probably because they know the horrors.
Maybe leadership is more “content of character” than a gender issue
Where can i read them now? Did anybody downloaded those comics and is willing to share them?
I have both pdf issues in english and spanish ans the audiobook that they made for issue 1 and the .apk for tge android app (idk how to get ios apps. I don’t know what to do with them yet. The website is available on internet archive, you can read both issues on there. For some reason issue 2 eng/sp .pdf were still on the nasa site if you have the direct link.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250301192918/https://www.nasa.gov/calliefirst/
If you think this is bad, imagine what it portends for women astronauts.
people saved them before they were Taken down.
https://nasawatch.com/education/you-can-still-read-nasas-deleted-first-woman-graphic-novels/
Keith’s 23 March update: within a few hours after this was posted (over a weekend) A NASA YouTube video and an official NASA photo of two female astronauts were pulled offline. Both things had been online for several years. This is not the first time this has happened. Apparently NASA DEI Sanitation Squad is using my postings to help them delete things. Details below.
Do has anybody saved the YouTube video?
What’s next? Rename the Artemis program because we can’t be flying to the moon under some lady name? Probably change it to Ares, god of war and courage. That’s a very manly man name, just as the good lords Jesus and Trump intended.
Change it to Donald, god of bone spurs and bigotry.
Lesser demi-god at best.
The moon program in the 1960s was originally called Artemis and got renamed to Apollo for the same reasoning.
So it’ll probably get renamed to Apollo 2.
The Quickening
Don’t give them ideas!!
Odds are they pick a Confederate general.
Fucking excellent use of our tax dollars right here. Along with scrubbing the Enola Gay n shit.
Don’t worry, worry-worts. There is an armada of data hoarders who will bring this all back after the purge. Data doesn’t die as long as nerds and geeks like me exist to persist the knowledge we have attained. Be of good cheer - nobody viewed that data before except a select few who cared, it is still there for them just not officially hosted by our broken system…it will be unbroken soon enough.
Cowards.
I’m curious: the USA wants to dominate the final frontier, how will they ensure a civilization can thrive without woman in those new settlements?
Anyways, the idea is horrific and stupid, let’s hope the US implodes.
The far right morons and the cowards enabling them are fucking things up for its own sake. They’re not thinking ahead. They’re not actually even thinking, they’re just reacting to imaginary shit.
They aren’t the USA, they’re the parasites the USA is infected with.
They are half of the USA at least, the other half are mostly dems, I have zero sympathy for them.
Cool, cool… so you’re better than literally everybody. Right on.
You deliberately choose to ignore the word ‘mostly’ to deny the tiny true left in your banana republic’s otherwise awful political spectrum.
But you couldn’t make that nasty remark otherwise could you?
Am I better than the people complicit in genocide and plenty more despicable things? Absolutely.
It’s not that hard.
If only you people would have some minimum humanitarian standards you wouldn’t need to vent your frustration for deservedly losing.
I always remember the question for Bill Gates were someone asked him if the Middle East will ever catch up with the rest of the world technology wise. And his answer was basically “no” because you shut out half of your population, holding women down.
With bottling Embryos like in Brave New World probably. That sounds about weird enough for Musk and his fellow band of shitheads
Musk doesn’t even have sex physically. Almost all his kids were made by surgically impregnating the women coerced into having his kids.
At least not to reproduce. Afaik he once said that he prefers IVF because it allows the parents to have influence on some of the steps. His daughter recently claimed that Musk wants to decide over his offsprings sex through selective IVF.
So the guy concerned with the natural order of things disdain the natural order…
Those were idealistic and aspirational. What we should be.
They can’t cancel the graphic novel that accurately depicts what it’s like being a woman in aerospace.
Soon they will just be pushing women down stairs just for fun. Such MAGAts.
Naw that might cause miscarriages, can’t be having that!
This anti-DEI measures are completely crazy.
Anti-DEI is just a newfangled way of saying white men only.
First Woman: NASA’s Promise for Humanity
First Woman: Expanding Our Universe
Here is copies of them if anyone is interested.
This person has them in Spanish as well https://sh.itjust.works/comment/17675694
Thank you sir. Duely downloaded and replicated for further distribution.
