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Experts Concerned We’ve Sent Sexist Messages to Space
nationalreview.com ^ | 9/11/15 | KATHERINE TIMPF

Posted on 11/25/2015 1:33:56 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda

Experts Concerned We’ve Sent Sexist Messages to Space

We’re not doing enough to promote diversity to aliens. During the British Science Festival, a group of experts pondered whether or not some of the images we have sent into space might be too sexist and too white — which would clearly be sending the wrong message to any aliens out there. Yes, seriously. Dr. Jill Stuart, considered an expert on the “politics” of space, expressed particular concern about a plaque on the 1972 Pioneer 10 spacecraft that featured a naked man and woman. “The plaque shows a man raising his hand in a very manly fashion while a woman stands behind him, appearing all meek and submissive,” Stuart said, according to an article in the Guardian.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/423882/experts-discuss-concerns-weve-sent-sexist-messages-space-katherine-timpf

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KEYWORDS: space; spacebetweenears; spacedout
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Wellll; unfortunately for the queers, lesbos, trannies, and all the other freaks out there, the body parts stay the same as you were born with baring surgery.


61 posted on 11/25/2015 4:20:09 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: a fool in paradise

el Caitlyn Shabazz Mohammad...NASA Needs You!

please pick up the pink telphone


62 posted on 11/25/2015 4:28:47 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><> GO CRUZ!!!!)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Already covered at FR in 2005...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1330323/posts?page=154#154

63 posted on 11/25/2015 10:47:13 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Just be sure not to offend the quantum presbyterians.
64 posted on 11/26/2015 1:01:22 PM PST by Trillian
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To: rdl6989

If your chosen field is “the politics of space”, how can you not have too much time one your hands?


65 posted on 11/27/2015 7:27:21 PM PST by Oztrich Boy ('Life is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy for those who feel' - Horace Walpole)
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