[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > That reminds me, how do you make space exciting for girls and women? It is a > very white male-dominated field.
[Sam, the following is not directed at you personally, okay? But at an attitude I find particularly offensive.] Oh, give me a break. I'm female. No one "made space interesting" for me: I figured it out on my own, and before Sputnik flew. If a female -- or male, either -- is too dense to realize that space is the salvation of mankind, and that engineers are the best mates, then too bad. We don't need her genes in the pool, anyway. And before anyone says it, no, I had to fight my way into drafting class, into engineering school and into various jobs. Barriers and restrictions are a challenge, nothing more. And that's another reason you don't "make space (or anything else for that matter) interesting." If a person doesn't have the gumption to go out and get what they want, I don't want them on my team. Your life is what you make it, not what someone else makes it. On the other hand, _encouraging_ people is a Very Good Thing and that is why I give talks at SF conventions and grade schools, and why I'm on the Aerospace Academy committee at the local high school, and why I buy space books and put them in local libraries, and why I like the ERPS list. ;-> Aleta _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
