Sally Ride was the first American woman and first lesbian in space, first flying in 1983.
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@Binks @mo @vagina_museum yeah I really want to know the full context between that exchange that folks love to dunk on. Yes many men have zero clue about anything related to a uterus, but I could absolutely see it as some engineer calculating the mass budget for the question of "do we have sufficient payload budget for any menstrual products this astronaut may need?" And the answer being a half-joking "well is 100 tampons sufficient?"
There's so many ways that often-reported quote could have been entirely reasonable and not entirely based in poor understanding of women's anatomy. There's also the distinct possibity that it was in fact an incredible level of misunderstanding uterus-havers
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@vagina_museum @agturcz I guess that this is a result of not openly talking about this topic. I was raised in a household without a father but with my mother and my sister (we even talked about the period during dinner). So talking about the period was totally normal for me. Only later I found out that many men find this topic very disturbing.
@heluecht Someone once said men are terrified of women because they bleed and DON'T DIE.
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@vagina_museum Better that way, than another. The last time I've participated in so called "main stream social media" there were some men believing that one tampon for the whole period is enough...
@agturcz Let's ask a professional who was there. @Trilobyter do you have any inside knowledge about this or similar types of decisions?? @vagina_museum@masto.ai
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@agturcz Let's ask a professional who was there. @Trilobyter do you have any inside knowledge about this or similar types of decisions?? @vagina_museum@masto.ai
@Lizette603_23 @agturcz that was a few years before I joined the program but I’ve heard the story, and apparently she did once confirm being asked about the needed quantity in advance of the mission, and it was a big overestimate, but there’s not a clear record about what was actually provided. I also have read they thought she would need a makeup kit in space.
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