"Woman" loses NASA internship....

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www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6090055/Suck-d-k-b-s-Woman-loses-NASA-internship-following-profanity-laden-tweet.html?login

I get cross at these stories as this is clearly a TW not a woman and people like this are giving women a bad name.

So many comments under the article saying how rude women are getting nowadays. Thinking this is a biological woman. I cannot imagine any biological woman getting accepted onto a NASA internship and behaving like this.

@Cwenthryth I agree they can do all these things.

I object to them being described as a woman however as they are not one.

What I want to happen is for there to be a clear way females are distinguished from males in crime statistics, in reporting such as this. It used to be "women" and "men". At the moment these words have lost all meaning.

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

What I want to happen is for there to be a clear way females are distinguished from males in crime statistics, in reporting such as this.

This isn’t crime statistics though? This is just lazy tabloid click bait.

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

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

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

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

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.

*Transwomen

*Hickam

Damn phone

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).

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.

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.

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.

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?

Or maybe he is a nice guy

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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).

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.

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

Yep juells

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).