[a fool in paradise]

Didn’t Hillary claim she wanted to be an astronaut but was stifled by male privilege?

http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2310/1

The fiftieth anniversary of the first woman in space is a fitting hook to look back over the long process of enabling gender-independent access to the final frontier. One of the interesting secondary tales associated with this theme is the campaign story offered by Hillary Clinton that, in 1961–2, she wrote to NASA about her interest on becoming an astronaut, and they dismayed and angered her by replying, “We don’t take girls.”..

The story is clearly politically useful, and comments on its actual authenticity have predictably split along partisan lines. Clinton herself never indicated she kept the letter, so there’s no documentation at her end.

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A crew of merchant marines were about to ship out and the women were saying their goodbyes. As they did so, a dog ran and jumped on the boat.

One of the women asked, why can’t any women come along?

The captain replied, because nobody gets upset about who pets the dog.

[oh8eleven]

Didn’t Hillary claim ...
Is that the same Hillary who claimed she was named (in 1947) after the first man to reach the summit of Mount Everest (in 1953) Sir Edmund Hillary? Oops.

[onedoug]

Can she can produce these copies?

No.

The Clinton liegacy continues.

[Colorado Doug]

Didn’t Hillary claim she wanted to be an astronaut but was stifled by male privilege?

I think that we should make her dream come true and send her to space.

[chimera]

As usual, what Hillary says isn't true anyway. Women were considered early in the Mercury program. The ones I remember are Gerrie Cobb

And Betty Skelton

My guess is if Hillary tried she wouldn't cut it. NASA doesn't take whiners.

[rollo tomasi]

"Didn’t Hillary claim she wanted to be an astronaut but was stifled by male privilege?"

Marines or something that would have springboard a "career"

How come chicks never gripe about "male privilege" in the low end of the totem pole of garbage men, septic tank cleaners, janitors, etc...? I know Hillary specializes in those jobs from a high position of power, but she had to marry into those positions.