Post #1209509
2026-04-11 19:53 UTC
@himbovoorhees My only concern about anyone's career as an astronaut is to wish that they stay on earth.
The whole obscene waste remains male-dominated, tho that's only a tiny part of my anger and revulsion at the whole show. But if people wanna do these stunts, there's no excuse for gender imbalance.
I just wish the whole lot of them would be banned from orbital thrillseking, and given a good trouting before going off to be useful, like disabling ICBMs or becoming human shields.
@angusm
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@himbovoorhees@elekk.xyz 2026-04-11 20:26
@2legged Becoming human shields? Really? Yeah, better use of the "token girl" to take a bullet for someone else than when she set records with other female astronauts. If we don't like her achievements or expertise, we can just diminish them and write them off! That's the real feminism! I think it's entirely possible to do both space and other things, but unfortunately the government is not currently interested in other things. The space program essentially being mostly dead for the past couple decades didn't make a difference on those, either.