• Judge_Juche [she/her]English
    50•2 years ago

    I still don’t understand what the NASA thing has to do with anything. Is it like everyone makes mistakes? Or like the men criticizing me don’t understand that women go Hitler-mode when they smoke that loud?

    Like just overall how do you think this makes you look better.

      • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]English
        24•2 years ago

        Proper sex ed in this country would have told her that smoking marijuana during menstruation can cause genocidal tendencies

      • reddit [any,they/them]English
        15•2 years ago

        I think what she’s saying is, here is this anecdote of some engineers not knowing how (cis) women work, anyone calling me out on my bullshit is sexist like those men. I think? Like this is me grasping at straws, I fully don’t understand what she means. Maybe it’s like others have said though, “even smart people make mistakes” or whatever, but it feels like a weird pull for just that idea.

        Putting aside this, while yes obviously the 100 tampons story is extremely funny it’s also potentially not that crazy? Maybe an afab comrade will tell me this is a bad take but tampons are pretty light, NASA already lives and breathes redundancy, and it’s not like they go bad, so why not throw in a bunch of extra? Obviously I’m sure a lot of it was just that yeah the NASA nerds don’t know how periods work and this is an absurd amount of extra but I feel that story is overblown. Will do self crit if there’s something deeper about it I’m missing

        • uralsolo [he/him]English
          12•2 years ago

          IIRC the guys in charge of packing the personal items for Sally Ride’s trip to the ISS asked her how many she would need, and she gave them a high “worst case scenario” estimate. Sally told the story as a kind of funny thing that happened to her while preparing to go to space, and people re-telling the story draw all kinds of conclusions about what it means. IMO it’s a fairly benign example of how a homogeneous workplace has blindspots in their experience.

      • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]English
        10•2 years ago

        The impression I got is that she was implying that the people who were criticizing her over her comment were largely men who, being men, don’t have the emotional intelligence to understand what it’s like to care about hostages.

    • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]English
      30•2 years ago

      She thinks she’s saying even the smartest organization makes mistakes, but all I’m reading is, “I’m just like the Nazis!”

      edit: removing ableist language, my bad.

    • mar_k [he/him]English
      12•2 years ago

      No idea but I assumed it’s an internalized misogyny joke? Like “I’m a woman, we’re emotional and erratic ok!”