• thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

      All of them. Afraid of giving anyone an equal playing field, straight afraid of women. Hold everyone down, insecure little men.

    • Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world
      22·
      1 day ago

      I’m not shocked at all. They literally said exactly what they were going to do and now they are doing it.

      Learn to expect the most stupid and evil outcome of any situation from now on and preemptively fight to secure what you deem important in whatever way you can.

  • ssillyssadass@lemmy.world
    27·
    2 days ago

    NASA is going down the drain under the new regime. If you’re interested in space exploration, shift your gaze over to the ESA or CNSA.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
        1·
        6 hours ago

        The Artemis program never had any legs. The entire thing was being done in the most stupid way possible simply so that NASA could use SLS, a rocket that was completely incapable of actually fulfilling it stated mission. It was like the Apollo missions but without the lander.

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        1 day ago

        Same thing that was always going to happen to it: It’s not gonna fly. It’s been canceled or clean sheet restarted at least once by every administration since inception, and frankly that rope has been pretty thoroughly pissed up.

        • Tattorack@lemmy.world
          1·
          9 hours ago

          Gods dammit, and after Artemis I was so succesful! I was looking forward to Artemis II… And seeing humans once again on the moon in my lifetime.

          I won’t get it. Mars is, resource poor. Don’t get me wrong; having humanity set foot on another planet would be an amazing achievement, but… Since everything is so profit-driven, why not support a return to the moon!?

          There’s potentially Helium 3 up there. And the moon has a bunch of surface-minerals.

    • lolrightythen@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 day ago

      I’m not against the idea at all, but there are pletny of women in power at the federal level that are absolute dogshit as well.

    • Probius@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      34·
      2 days ago

      I’d love to live in a society where no particular gender held most positions of power or had more legislative influence.

      • samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
        218·
        2 days ago

        Sure, but if we HAD to have a gender in charge, I’d prefer women.

        • Probius@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          6·
          1 day ago

          And after 200 years of matriarchy, people would be saying that women are evil and we should have a patriarchy. Whoever holds the power always ends up oppressing whoever doesn’t.

          • samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
            21·
            1 day ago

            Yeah, but that’s someone else’s problem as I’ll be long gone by then.

        • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
          372·
          1 day ago

          I feel like we’d exchange the Elon Musks of the world for the JK Rowlings of the world, the Ronald Reagans for the Margaret Thatchers, and the Donald Trumps for the Ayn Rands.

          Fairer sex my ass

          The only reason you don’t think women can be evil is because you’re too used to the idea of women as damsels to be rescued, too childish to be a threat to anyone. This is because the patriarchy hates the idea that a woman can be competent moreso than a man, even in acts of evil.

          • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            15·
            2 days ago

            Yupes, good old “benevolent” sexism.

            Prejudice, just like the Far-Right, just with different “superior” and “inferior” groups.

            Historically the best criteria for selecting people to positions of power is how little they want power, not gender or race.

            (Personally I think that’s because people who do not want power see it as a burden, and they do so because for them power is a great responsability towards many others - what sane individuals would ever want to be in a position were they can ruin the lives of countless people by making a mistake - and that’s exactly the kind of people you want to entrust with it, not the ones for whom power is a form of ego-stroking or even a tools for personal upside maximization)

            • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
              4·
              16 hours ago

              Yupes, good old “benevolent” sexism.

              God I’m reminded of anytime I watch something from the 90’s and then an asian character shows up…

              It’s not that I’m racist and go into “WOKE MOBS TOOK MY WHITES AWAY!!!11111” mode

              It’s that for the longest time in America, media was blatantly racist against basically everyone and in the 90’s, the cold war was over, the best electronics came from Japan, so the media was trying (and failing) to learn how to be not so asiaphobic. This didn’t mean “Don’t do stereotypes!”, this means “Do positive stereotypes”

              So every show either had the one asian cast member or that one episode where the asian character showed up, and you could just HEAR the writers saying “Oh no, so he’s very proud of his heritage and is very smart, so it’s a positive thing. That makes up for his dialogue sounding like fortune cookies that have been put through google translate fifty times!”

              And then you went into the 2000’s and this also became how they wrote black characters… Irwin from Billy and Mandy, Tucker from Danny Phantom, The Dino Thunder Blue Ranger, Richie from Static Sh… wait… Richie was the token white guy (In an amazing show I might add, god I should re-watch Static Shock)… Well my point still stands, they’re all the same fucking character “Oh no he’s really dorky and super smart, so it’s the exact opposite of the stereotype is the joke!”

              Doing the exact opposite of the stereotype still calls attention to the stereotype, god damn it!

              Miles Morales has shades of this too, but he’s nowhere near as insufferable as these characters and is far more believable as a “Black Nerd” than any of them.

              Sorry, I remembered “Benevolent Racism” when you mentioned benevolent sexism, and that awakened that.

              It’s really weird when the 90’s show you’re watching is based on an Asian Property and it does this nonsense, because I look at characters like “Kong Fu” from Donkey Kong Country, or the one episode of Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog where Scratch and Grounder become “Ninja Robots” by draining the asianess from this Samurai Crane (I know samurai aren’t ninjas, but tell the show that), and I’m like… “Wow, I wonder how Shigeru Miyamoto and Yuji Naka felt if they ever saw this shit… Except fuck Yuji Naka, he’s a bit of a dick… The AoStH Episode is still fucked up though.”

    • db2@lemmy.world
      12·
      2 days ago

      The problem is too many won’t go for it. I recently met a guy who completely voted against his own best interests just because Kamala was born with a vagina instead of a penis. He admitted it freely, so he knowingly voted for the people who want to make people like him slaves again. It’s absolutely mind boggling.

    • merdaverse@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 days ago

      Yes, merit is overrated. We should just get more of Giorgia Meloni, Alice Weidel and Marine Le Pen. Clearly Europe is on the right track…

    • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
      114·
      2 days ago

      Have you not seen tumblr? You’ll just get Elon Musk with a vagina and a hate-on for anyone capable of having a hard-on… Even if they aren’t men.

      So an even more mask-off JK Rowling

    • spacecadet@lemm.ee
      73·
      2 days ago

      Statistically, women leaders start more wars than men, so a matriarchal society signs us up for more war. The group statistically likely to start less wars is former soldiers, probably because they know the horrors.

      Maybe leadership is more “content of character” than a gender issue

      • lobut@lemmy.ca
        4·
        2 days ago

        I don’t know about that. If I recall that woman got busted for hiding men at her place. They knew because the toilet seats were left up!

  • Ronno@feddit.nlEnglish
    28·
    2 days ago

    I’m curious: the USA wants to dominate the final frontier, how will they ensure a civilization can thrive without woman in those new settlements?

    Anyways, the idea is horrific and stupid, let’s hope the US implodes.

    • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      I always remember the question for Bill Gates were someone asked him if the Middle East will ever catch up with the rest of the world technology wise. And his answer was basically “no” because you shut out half of your population, holding women down.

    • Soleos@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 day ago

      They don’t want no women, they want subservient women. Think Handmaid’s Tale in space.

    • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
      6·
      2 days ago

      With bottling Embryos like in Brave New World probably. That sounds about weird enough for Musk and his fellow band of shitheads

      • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        Musk doesn’t even have sex physically. Almost all his kids were made by surgically impregnating the women coerced into having his kids.

        • ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org
          7·
          2 days ago

          At least not to reproduce. Afaik he once said that he prefers IVF because it allows the parents to have influence on some of the steps. His daughter recently claimed that Musk wants to decide over his offsprings sex through selective IVF.

    • db2@lemmy.world
      71·
      2 days ago

      The far right morons and the cowards enabling them are fucking things up for its own sake. They’re not thinking ahead. They’re not actually even thinking, they’re just reacting to imaginary shit.

      They aren’t the USA, they’re the parasites the USA is infected with.

      • 0x0@programming.dev
        2·
        2 days ago

        they’re the parasites

        They’re the elected parasites… that should tell you a bit about who voted.

      • Bloomcole@lemm.ee
        24·
        2 days ago

        They are half of the USA at least, the other half are mostly dems, I have zero sympathy for them.

        • db2@lemmy.world
          42·
          2 days ago

          Cool, cool… so you’re better than literally everybody. Right on.

          • Bloomcole@lemm.ee
            12·
            2 days ago

            You deliberately choose to ignore the word ‘mostly’ to deny the tiny true left in your banana republic’s otherwise awful political spectrum.
            But you couldn’t make that nasty remark otherwise could you?
            Am I better than the people complicit in genocide and plenty more despicable things? Absolutely.
            It’s not that hard.
            If only you people would have some minimum humanitarian standards you wouldn’t need to vent your frustration for deservedly losing.

  • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
    70·
    2 days ago

    What’s next? Rename the Artemis program because we can’t be flying to the moon under some lady name? Probably change it to Ares, god of war and courage. That’s a very manly man name, just as the good lords Jesus and Trump intended.

    • grue@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 days ago

      Keith’s 23 March update: within a few hours after this was posted (over a weekend) A NASA YouTube video and an official NASA photo of two female astronauts were pulled offline. Both things had been online for several years. This is not the first time this has happened. Apparently NASA DEI Sanitation Squad is using my postings to help them delete things. Details below.

      So has anybody saved the YouTube video?

      • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        2 days ago

        yeah, it’s right in that same article.

        looks like that’s the “details below” part of that paragraph.