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New York Times Encourages Women To Be Angry At NASA’s Apollo Program Because It Was ‘Built Around Male Bodies’

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Hey ladies, here’s another thing you can be angry about if you need to increase the misery in your daily life: according to the venerated New York Times, NASA’s Apollo Program that landed the first men on the moon was designed by men, for men and is ripe to be hated for its gender bias. If that isn’t enough to awaken your inner feminist, despite the fact that we’ve moved beyond that in the 50 years since and seen many women astronauts and engineers in the space program, and, in fact, are set to send the first woman to the moon by 2024 in the Artemis Program (Artemis is a Greek goddess, by the way), you should still be really angry because men went to the moon first and the spacesuits don’t fit women.

Or something. I don’t really get it.

The Times piece then helpfully goes into a few paragraphs dissecting the budget restraints that kept smaller spacesuits from being made available and how one lady astronaut had to improvise with padding to make her suit fit during buoyancy tests due to her small stature.

I mean, call me crazy but this sounds like a call for funding rather than an opportunity for a social justice crusade. The Times also suggests that because the lady astronauts chose not to make a big deal of having to use their wit and brains to improvise so they could get on with being bada** astronauts, these spacesuit snafus were evidence of “gender bias [that] became a mistake that we did not learn from.”

I’d venture to say the ladies who faced the problem and overcame it learned a great deal, which makes them ideal astronauts. The Times feels the need, however, to inform them of their victimhood and speak when they can’t. (I have a hard time believing women who make it through the space program are too meek to speak, but whatever).

And it wouldn’t be the Times if they didn’t pick up on the newest, silliest feminist trope and turn it into a potential tragedy.

Why the Times, and its woke readership, feels the need to turn basic logistical problems NASA encounters as it moves back toward space exploration into some kind of divisive proof of bias is baffling. It’s counterproductive and silly. Don’t believe me? Read the piece and try not to roll your eyes at the part where they describe the “thick wool slippers” on the feet of a female Space Shuttle crew member.

In fairness, they do cover the antiquated belief back when the space program began in the 60s that women weren’t up to the task of space flight. And it’s true women weren’t allowed into the military flight training programs that were the career pathway to space flight. But the truth is, women may not have been physically up to some of the physical demands of  space flight given the technology used at the time. That tiny little Apollo 11 return shuttle, for example, very likely asked a great deal of the human body and women, as the rest of the Times piece points out, are wired differently physically than men. As we’ve refined technologically — and the differences in technology from the outset of the space program to the modern age of commercial space flight are vast — the brawn of the job has decreased in importance and the intellectual necessities (always there) have taken on more prominence.

And so, more women. As a women, I actually take that as something of a compliment, frankly.

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Source: https://www.redstate.com/slee/2019/07/17/new-york-times-encourages-women-angry-nasas-apollo-program-built-around-male-bodies/


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