Kryten Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 Yes, how silly of me. I'd have to be some kind of radical pinko to suggest there was massive institutional sexism in the ....ing 60s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwenting Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 Because the only thing a woman is good for is having babies, according to your kind. Are you seriously advocating for what would effectively amount to forced conception?Did you even read what I wrote? Apparently not. There's nothing against women IF they meet the skill requirements.But the original questions was "why don't we select women just because they are women". Now THAT's a sexist attitude if there ever was one.But of course your radical feminist ideologue never notices that as such an attitude is there entire world view.- - - Updated - - -And the sexism card is played.and the racism card... NASA selected from the test pilot corps to save money, those people already had the qualifications.Women weren't allowed in combat roles at the time (and for decades after) for all kind of reasons, age old historical reasons as well as highly practical ones (like having to design, produce, and stock female versions of pretty much everything).Blacks were allowed but very rare in combat jobs at the time, especially in the air force and navy air arm where all the test pilots were selected from. Again, historical reasons. Most test pilots had high seniority, and blacks had not been allowed in those roles long enough for most of them to gain that seniority.While the original reasons blacks weren't allowed was racist (they had been allowed during the civil war when the union needed more men then they could recruit from the white population, quickly disallowed again afterwards only to be allowed again at the end of WW2 and for pretty much the same reason) at the time the reason was largely different, as I described. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kryten Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 Blacks were allowed but very rare in combat jobs at the time, especially in the air force and navy air arm where all the test pilots were selected from. Again, historical reasons. Most test pilots had high seniority, and blacks had not been allowed in those roles long enough for most of them to gain that seniority. The whole USAF had been forcibly integrated just after WWII, and there were plenty of senior black test pilots by this time. One was in fact entered into the USAF's own astronaut corps for the MOL program, despite the USAF having a much smaller number of astronauts overall. Hell, even the soviets had a black man in space before the US did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyewok Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 And the sexism card is played.No its not.1960's America was extremely sexist and racist. This was a time were a women place was considered "the Kitchen".Women in high powered or important jobs were the exception not rule.No it was not right but it happened. Times luckily have changed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hugix Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 to make the shame even greater.... When Sally Ride was going to be the first American woman in space engineers asked if 100 (!) tampons should be enough... For a 7 day mission!http://gizmodo.com/nasa-engineers-offered-sally-ride-100-tampons-for-a-7-d-1594243379 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanamonde Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 This thread has gotten into 'adult content' and personal attacks. Time to close it before things get worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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