Dress Left, Dress! me too...
Posted on 07/24/2012 7:11:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sally Ride showed Generation X girls the sky’s the limit — literally.
We could do anything boys could do and sometimes better. If we wanted to go into space, our gender couldn’t — and wouldn’t — stop us. If we studied hard enough and trained our brains, the glass ceiling could be shattered.
Amid all the girl power that Ride taught women, one barrier the first American woman in space chose not to break was sexuality. When she died on Monday at age 61 from pancreatic cancer, it emerged that Ride had a partner. As one friend on Facebook wrote, in jest, “That lady astronaut was gay.”
Yes, Sally Ride, a theoretical astrophysicist, American hero and feminist icon, was a lesbian...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I am guessing schools who teach about her will emphasize her being a lesbian.
I agree. While I cannot stand those who lisp by choice, folks who go the other way and make no demands on the rest of us should be left alone. If Ms Ride wanted to keep her private life from public view, it is sad that someone violated her wishes.
“I am guessing schools who teach about her will emphasize her being a lesbian.”
The textbooks are being rewritten even as we speak, to read “The First LESBIAN Astronaut”...
You know, I really don’t care about sexual orientation. Just don’t rub it in my face. And don’t tell me that non-heterosexual behavior is “normal”. If is was, we wouldn’t be here.
I didn't. I don't look at people and automatically wonder which way they swing.
Unless she was hanging all over another woman in broad daylight in the middle of the town square, I wouldn't notice. Or care.
We never suspected a thing. Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
I’m sure her children will be pleased by all the praises and accolades upon her death .... queer, oh never mind.
so women have the babies, breast feed and have nimble fingers?....wow....thanks for all the compliments.../sarcasm/
good for her I say...she kept her life her life, and no one else's....
As i have gotten older i am a left dresser and the family jewels go to the right and hang lower
BUMP what you said. Excellent.
Ride CHOSE not to be part of the faggot brigade that exists simply to stick a thumb in the eye of normal people.
My admiration for Sally Ride just became greater.
Exactly. Here is a woman who wanted to keep her sexuality private but the media wanted another “gay hero” so they trashed her wishes and outed her. The media is disgusting. And the worst part is, they think they are doing something noble by telling the world Ride was a lesbian. They should be ashamed of themselves, but they have no shame.
That was just some examples but pretty amazing what women can do. Also amazing what they think they can do but can’t.
Men are larger, stronger, and faster. That cannot be argued, at least intellectually.
There is another interesting difference. While males and females have just about exactly equal IQs, with girls having just the slightest edge, Men totally dominate at the genius level.
Same here !
Just be sure to stand before you flush.
The differences in the way men and women think and view their worlds are greater than liberal academia would ever admit. For example, most women, even geniuses, cannot walk up to a wall and straighten a crooked picture frame by eye. (shrug)
Yeah, well, Big Woop to those folks. I kind of agree with Debbie Schlussel, hard-ass muzzie & DHS buster from Dearborn:
The mainstream news media and many Americans are remembering Sally Ride, who died today at age 61, as though she were some sort of American hero for being the first female astronaut. She was not. Not even close. Instead, she was the beneficiary of militant feminism, in whose ranks she was proudly present, along with blatant gender-based affirmative action. Many male astronauts and astronauts-in-waiting were far more qualified, had more experience, and had been waiting much longer for a ticket to ride on the space shuttle. But they were passed over because NASA had just instituted affirmative action and wanted to please feminists. This isn’t just me guessing about this or my opinion. It’s fact, and it’s well known and NASA bragged about it, passing over a Black astronaut, Lt. Col. Guion Bluford, who was far more qualified and had trained as an astronaut long before her. Bluford eventually went to space on the next ride, but many others never got to go because they were displaced by Ride and other women who filled the affirmative action quota seat on each major space flight thereafter.
And here I always thought left was just the normal angle of the dangle. I seem to be right in everything else.
Gawd!..I just checked and I am too!!.....maybe its why were so smart!!!
we need a gov funded study!!!.... /s
You don’t suppose Australians are predominantly right dressers do you?
Dress Left, Dress! me too...
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