aztro

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
firefly464
theswisscheeserag

“I hate school I’m sorry Malala”- Funny yet poignant. Acknowledges both the difficulty of the task and the fact that doing that task is a privilege. Gives credit to the people who fought for that privilege with a tongue in cheek acknowledgement of the irony of the initial statement

“I’m just a girl I should be home baking bread not doing calculus” - at best historically uninformed at worst leaps decades back in time. Refusal to acknowledge the charged history of education and slights the centuries of women’s labor it took to reach this point

harley-the-pancake
marspumpkin

btw the katy perry/bezos' girlfriend/other four irrelevant billionaires 10 minute space stunt was not the first all female expedition no matter how much they try to market it as such. the first all female mission was in 1963 with soviet cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova, Irina Solovyova and Valentina Ponomaryova - all three of which were working class and had to pass incredibly hard exams to be chosen from 400 potential candidates. just in case we started falling for the propaganda machine again

optimistic-violinist

This, but also Amanda Nguyen was one of the women on the recent flight and not only is she a scientist who performed (albeit a small) experiments while on the flight, she interned at NASA and went to school at Harvard, researching exoplanets while she was there. She was on track to become an astronaut, but that plan was derailed when she was sexually assaulted. She spent years following that becoming an advocate for other sexual assault victims and drafting the Sexual Assault Survivors' Right Act which unanimously passed Congress in 2016.

Imagine all that, and then you get offered the chance to go to space. Even if it was only for 10 minutes. She took a letter she wrote to herself when she decided to become an astronaut and her hospital bracelet from after she was raped as her gravity indicators on that flight.

100% we should be calling out bullcrap, propaganda, privilege, etc. but multiple truths can exist at once, and sometimes there can be something cool and good in something bad and ridiculous.