Beyonce bigs up girls in space The crew of space shuttle Atlantis were this morning treated to a wake-up call from Beyonce Knowles, who blasted out a snippet of Run the World (Girls) followed by a salute to women in space. She said: “Good morning, Atlantis! This is Beyonce. Sandy, Chris, Doug and Rex, you inspire all of us to dare to live our dreams, to …
Being a woman in space is dangerous. You *will* be chased by lusty starfleet captains, aliens that try to procreate their species through of laying of eggs in chest cavities or mafia killers out to keep the drug business going on faraway mining moons. Not to mention renditioned to heavily armed Space Gitmo because you might be a member of a terrorist organization.
Stay at home, keep your gonads away from radiation and let SAL9000 stand in for the female side, if you insist.
I thought we were past all this sexist rubbish. Sandy Magnus may happen to be female, but to me she is an astronaut, a very noble and brave thing to be.
That the only thing this silly little pea-brained singer can find to say about an astronaut is that she is a "girl" tells you a lot more about the silly little pea-brained singer than about Ms Magnus.
Ye glods, I thought we were in the future now!
When did our civilisation sink so low that we need a woman whose position has been determined primarily by being well fucking tasty and marrying a powerful man to "big up" a woman who has actually done something incredible and extraordinary with their life and become an astronaut?
For shame, society, for shame.
that when the astronauts land, we should all wear chimpanzee masks.
Being told that while you were off-planet, it is now being run by women, isn't in quite the same league, nor is it the end of the world (another common sci-fi topic, for the unfortunate astronauts to watch the planet set itself on fire beneath them - no more lemon-soaked paper napkins on the way from anywhere now), but it would be a significant change. For the better, probably, even if only because it'd probably reguire a universal testosterone famine to bring it about (to misuse "testosterone" for "machismo" as we usually do).
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