"Woman" loses NASA internship....

I don't think the Homer guy was being mansplainy. He said "language". It was just a mild warning.
The "intern" then responded in a shockingly rude and stupid way. Do young people really not understand that their social media is public and their employers can see it??
Male or female it was unbelievably crass and thick.
Sending them off into space would at least increase the collective intelligence of the inhabitants of Earth slightly.

Interesting. I saw the post on a fb page and thought the “suck my dick and balls” sounded like something transwomen would say but thought nothing more of it as to whether the person was actually a transwoman. They really like that phrase don’t they.

Oh I read that story and wondered what the fuck that comment was about and why everyone was so quick to defend 'her'. No one wants to be language policed and it's annoying but if you are posting publicly about an internship at mother fucking NASA, play it cool. The original post wasn't wise but I can see how young people might be a bit confused about how large organizations work with "I fucking love science" and tech giants having fairly relaxed working conditions etc. But to post something as rude as the second comment you deserve to lose your internship as you clearly aren't as clever you think you are.

The comment did make me wonder if it was actually a male that and the fact that person actually secured an internship at NASA

no one believes these trans males are women.

Except all the commenters underneath the article crowing about how she lost her job because of her potty mouth!

Honestly, who'd want someone like that in an organisation though? First response to getting an internship being to swear about it on twitter, then swear even more when someone remarks on it? Didn't have the gumption to hover over the name of the person they were swearing at, to see who he might be...

I see on twitter that people are saying that person is a furry. Had never heard of such a thing before this morning, now this is the second mention (first was in the deleted AC thread).

Yep juells

Well Juells it just goes to prove no one believes these trans males are women.

Oh, ok. I thought you meant it had been specifically said in this case. Those statements sound fine, by the way - they’re not saying trans people deserve respect because they are trans which is what you first said. Everyone should be respected/deserves respect, until their actions lose that respect.

Cwenthryth

I see it all the time...

"Respect Transwomen/girls"

"I think that Transpeople all deserve respect"

"Transpeople deserve our respect"

I'm not going to respect some 20 year old furry trans 'girl' that behaves like an incel just because they identify as Trans (as an example).

I might have tweeted the same thing though if I thought a 'youngster' was potentially buggering up their prospects in my workplace though.

Interesting. I assumed he was happy for the person to receive his mild rebuke but not to lose their job. But you could be right, I don't know any more.

Finger-wagging when he thought it was a woman. Falling over himself to make up for it when he realised there was a Y chromosome.

The tweet (“language”) did have a very mansplain-y air about it, didn’t it? Definitely wouldn’t have happened if he’d known he was talking to a fellow Y chromosome.

Or maybe he is a nice guy

When he thought it was a woman, not so nice tho?

Or maybe he is a nice guy. Or maybe he knows there will be a mad pile on if he didn't (and the inevitable death threats). What was the old film again where the evil towns children could read adults minds so all the adults tried really hard to keep them happy?

It's so obvious the Space Council guy is only trying to help now he knows there's a Y chromosome involved. Team Y.

Yes once he realised it was a bloke, he couldn't tell her off and then made sure he got his space back.

Textbook.

And I tend to find that people who bang on about respect tend to be the least respectful people who dont realise that it goes both ways.

Who doesn't read up about a new employer or somewhere they are applying to?

Id think it was a Big Deal working for NASA and hope that theyd choose people who weren't absolute numpties.

I am meant to automatically respect this person because of their identity

Where do you get that from, Tiny? I mean, I believe that everyone is deserving of basic respect until they prove otherwise (ie their actions lose your respect), but why ‘because of their identity’? Does that imply that some identities are more deserving of respect than others? Seems an odd thing to base respect on (I know you didn’t say it, but wondering where the idea has come from).

*Hickam

Damn phone

*Transwomen

Just had look at some of the newest comments and couple have said that they are 'definitely a girl as all the news outlets have confirmed that they are female'.

The person is definitely trans.

Transwoman are female now, apparently.

I also like how I am meant to automatically respect this person because of their identity yet they showed absolutely zero respect to Homer Hickman.

Also, see the film Hidden Figures, which detailed the difficulties African American actual women had in NASA, and how important their role was in the Space Race

I cannot think how no-ironic it is that NAS rejected a very early crop of actual women for astronaut training, back in the 1960s when they found out their screening tests had revealed women to be well-suited to space flight. That just didn't sit well with them...

Link below. Sorry it's the Guardian

NASA rejects women in the 1960s

I'm.idenifying as the first budgie to have a Nasa membership

I saw this on Twitter. Naomi is trans. So no surprise that Naomi is exhibiting stereotypical male behaviour.