In his first-time candidate for the astronauts, I was faced with two things which have not yet ever encountered in my life: to choose what to wear to work and to work with women. & lt; ... & gt; And if the question is, what to wear, cause I'm just puzzled that female colleagues for me were like from another galaxy. I saw women only as sex objects - unintended consequence of the twelve years of education in Catholic schools. Priests and nuns hammered into me the idea that women are identical sex, and sex is meant eternal torment in hell. The girls have never been discussed in a different context. About they never said how about the people who can dream. I do not talk about women doctors, women scientists, female astronaut. On the women spoke only as "the cause of sin." The only thing I knew about women teenager - is that a straight road to hell is between their legs. Their breasts will acquaint you with Beelzebub. Even the imagination of their breasts and other parts of the body (a mortal sin "impurity of thought") will send you straight to hell. Only in marriage rules changed. There's sex becomes the norm - for procreation. Married women reach their highest life status - to conceive and bear children. "The main purpose of marriage - the birth of children" - this was a dogma in the textbook "marriage course" in 1963 my wife graduated from St. Mary's School.
The same textbook contains a lesson, "male and female psychology" with the table of characteristics. "Men are more realists, women - idealists. Men are more emotionally stable woman emotionally weaker. The man loves his job, the woman loves her man. " And, my favorite, "Men are more often right, women are more often wrong».
I am so full of these took perverse sexist statement that in high school wrote an essay, that women should not be allowed to go to college. I got "excellent". I was a good pupil.
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The officer corps of the US Air Force, where I was in 1967, has been completely male organization. I have not seen a single woman-pilot. Friday evening we were entertained in the club strippers. Military pilots saw women only as "receptacles". Anyone who says otherwise must have been going to run for Congress. Women are from Venus, men are from Mars normal, but military pilots come from the planet developmental delay. Blockquote> At first, the choice of words Malleyna in dealing with women was no different from what he would have used in the men's team. But among the six women of the eighth astronaut were feminists. Careless joke with the mention of the word "boobs" in the presence of Sally Ride has meant that it has not talked to him more than was necessary for the work of ten years. Malleyn was not alone in its backwardness - the other astronauts, former military pilots, staged stupid jokes and come up with jokes that do not want to translate. But working together with civil and women were instructive - these people might not know how to drink hot drink, but they were not the faint of heart, and do a good job. At the end of the book, Mike writes directly:
Without a doubt, the experience of working at NASA the most changed my personality in relation to women. I realized that they - are people with dreams and ambitions, and they only needed an opportunity to prove what they can do. And the women of the eighth set of astronauts coped. See how pregnant in the ninth month, Margaret Seddon piloted the shuttle simulator, executing one of a flawless landing, was for me a lesson of their competence. View broadcast from space, where it performs an unscheduled and dangerous operation of the shuttle arm to enable the faulty satellite, was a lesson. I know that this is Judy might include breathing apparatus Mike Smith in hell, which became "Challenger" was a lesson. Always showing their professionalism, skill and courage, a woman astronaut Mike took eighth set Malleyna back to school and change it. Blockquote>
Conclusion h4> There are people who can be astronauts. Their gender is relevant to the specific issues or physiological level specialists IBMP RAS. There are people who can not be astronauts, because of poor health, mental or bad character. And sex is not important.
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