This thread. This funny, funny thread.
As far as AOC’s haircut goes, I really do wish people would learn you can still be rich and have nice things under socialism.
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FAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK, they should be asking if ANY humans at all have a quality of purity few HUMANS possess.
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Y’know, lots of memories of my childhood, pre-teen, have been flooding my brain lately, and one that stands out is not understand what being a girl had to do with anything. Sincerely! I mean, I understood my personal physical limitations for certain things - I never bought my dad’s “Women’s elbows are constructed differently, so they can’t pitch overhand like men!” (he died before “A League of Their Own” came out, and since he was away during their peak years, I’m sure he never saw them play. He had to’ve known of the league, though…).
And I ask again, only more emphatically: What the fuck does being a girl have to do with anything?
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That still in the tweet I posted was from a video of the spacewalk that very day. There being no up/down changes nothing about optimization and the effectson those its its not optimized for.
But thanks for a “Well, actually…” in the feminism thread.
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If someone already posted this, please delete (WARNING: Memories of weirdness)
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I’m not sure why Americans have such a dim view of “socialism.” Part of it is the conservative fearmongering, of course. Another part of it is the misinterpretation of the second “S” in “USSR.” But I have to tell you, living in a place that embraces capitalism, yet has a substantial social safety net, is pretty nice. And bottom line, I pay just under 10% more in taxes in Belgium than I did in the US, and my feeling is that a lot of that extra tax gets put to very good use.
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Wow…um…what was the point of all that? It doesn’t change the fact that the equipment isn’t easily accessible to everyone. What are you trying to prove?
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Good question! It seems aimed at proving that none of this is a “real problem” and we shouldn’t worry our pretty little heads over such things… But I’m sure I’m just being hysterical! 
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Probably best to ask Dr Meir.
Which isn’t to say that NASA has neglected this problem.
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Human Factors Engineering Analysis of Various Hatch Sizes.
Accounting for all anthropometries to accommodate all astronauts.
(The lack of proximal handholds and footholds looks to be a consequence of hatch size)
Unlike Kowal, I don’t know astronauts personally. I don’t binge on NASATV, I’ve certainly not gone into space. She is hinting at a wealth of knowledge that I simply do not have And then by posting an unsourced, untimestamped photo and then digressing into a jim henson tangent-- she’s closing the gate.
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Lest we forget…the woman who did more to make people see being a stay-at-home mom required wearing a hard-hat and having a sense of humor:
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But could any of them do so without undue strain/stretching? And how far below “average” height, and “average” for whom?
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Now I’m wondering what it would take for the NACW to expand like NACA into NASA…
I was going to add, “What about someone without legs?” But then I wasn’t sure NASA would allow such a person into its program; though I have no idea why they shouldn’t, if they meet all the other requirements.
So yeah - what about someone without legs?
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Yup. You can even see she’s having to stretch.
But you better believe that if things were set up optimally for someone like me, these same cries of “It’s fine!” would suddenly be complaints that no one could operate in such cramped conditions.
But when smaller people get hurt from having to stretch and strain under conditions optimized for the portion of the population that averages taller, and it’s because they’re “fragile” and not “suited to the work.” Somehow the workplace design just can’t be improved. Funny how that works, isn’t it?
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From the last spacewalk, at 8hrs, 7 minutes in,
Meir looks like she’s pretty damn comfortable working in microgravity, as she opens the hatch.
Backwards, and in high heels.
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Oh for fuck’s sake.
It shouldn’t even need to be said but:
No mansplaining, marginalizing or ignoring what the fuck women have to say in the Not Feminism thread, please.
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is not the same as being.
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It seems to me that the only spaces in history men used to be expressly forbidden access to was the women’s public toilets, aka “the ladies’ room” and, up to the lobby, the YWCA and sororities; I’m not sure about locker rooms, although I know boys weren’t s’posed to go into the girls’ and vice-versa.
And men were forbidden that access based on only one physical difference between men and women: The penis. Not on the length of their arms, legs, and or torso.
I’m not including convents, girls’ schools, et al, because all men were/are not expressly forbidden from entering those places, although they may’ve been at one time (?).
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