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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/nasas-forgotten-female-frontierswomen/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/nasas-forgotten-female-frontierswomen/</guid><description><![CDATA[do anyone other than spammers still bother to post here?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[dido248834]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 14th 2009 7:11AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/nasas-forgotten-female-frontierswomen/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/nasas-forgotten-female-frontierswomen/</guid><description><![CDATA[Thats astonishing! I never knew the womens program existed. I was in the AirForce Junior Reserved Officers Training corps from 1981-1985 in Highschool. We studied everything about aerospace and the space program and things like Capt. Charles E. Yeager who was the first man to break the sound barrier. <br><br>Those dumb NASA higher up's, men who held women to a different standard represents the epitimy and turth of sexual discrimination in our country back then.<br><br>Thats a shame, theirs no telling how different the space program would have been if women were allowed to fully participate in space over 40 years ago.<br><br>Rob]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rob]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 14th 2009 7:13AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/nasas-forgotten-female-frontierswomen/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/nasas-forgotten-female-frontierswomen/</guid><description><![CDATA[Thats interesting and sad!.<br><br>I was in the Airforce Junior Reserved Officers Training Corps in high school. We studdied everything about areospace for the four years I was in the program such as Capt. Charles E. Yeager who was the first man to break the sound barrier. We watched videos of the different space missions. Never once did we study about and women in the program. What a sexist side of the men in the higher up men in the program. Probably even the astronauts themselves were to proud to be out done by a woman.<br><br>That shows the real epitome of sexual discrimination holding the women to a different standard. Theirs no telling how the space program may have advanced had they actually involved the women in the program properly.<br><br>Rob]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rob]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 14th 2009 7:38AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/nasas-forgotten-female-frontierswomen/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/nasas-forgotten-female-frontierswomen/</guid><description><![CDATA[I was also in Air Force Jr ROTC while in high school back in the 70s, but our instructor, a retired AF sargeant named Suchan (sp? it's been 30+ years), made darn sure we knew about the female pilots and not just Amelia Earhart, as well as recounting the first female astronauts. He was a firm believer that the military and space program needed both genders to be a "complete" service, noting that both sexes brought strengths the other might lack. He didn't believe women should be in combat (my Army MP daughter would firmly and respectfully disagree!) except as fighter and bomber pilots (no contact with the enemy, but he said they had better aim than a lot of guys!), but he was never disrespectful of women's contributions to the military, reminding the guys in class that they filled jobs that freed up men for combat - he was a WWII and Korean War vet himself, and was crew chief for "Pappy" Boyington while in the Army Air Corps (the tales he told...the Black Sheep Squandron, popular at the time, didn't come close to the hell raiser that man was), noting that women did a lot of jobs during WWII that were absolutely vital to victory. He cheered when women were permitted to join the military academies and was instrumental in getting a good friend of mine into AFA and later, into NASA, as one of the first "real" female astronauts!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[roushka]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 14th 2009 7:59AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/nasas-forgotten-female-frontierswomen/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/nasas-forgotten-female-frontierswomen/</guid><description><![CDATA[Someon remove those first five comments, thats rediculas.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ceduran5]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 14th 2009 8:01AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/nasas-forgotten-female-frontierswomen/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/nasas-forgotten-female-frontierswomen/</guid><description><![CDATA[The only "rediculas" here are you.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[casatropical7]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 14th 2009 1:37PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/nasas-forgotten-female-frontierswomen/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/nasas-forgotten-female-frontierswomen/</guid><description><![CDATA[But at least someon removed them.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[tana green]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 14th 2009 4:22PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/nasas-forgotten-female-frontierswomen/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/nasas-forgotten-female-frontierswomen/</guid><description><![CDATA[I can name on less that one finger the number of people who DID make it into space in the 1950's !!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 14th 2009 8:17AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/nasas-forgotten-female-frontierswomen/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/nasas-forgotten-female-frontierswomen/</guid><description><![CDATA[Yeah. What's up with that headline? ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[wncrod]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 14th 2009 9:30AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/nasas-forgotten-female-frontierswomen/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/nasas-forgotten-female-frontierswomen/</guid><description><![CDATA[The headline says 60s.  Learn to read.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[tana green]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 14th 2009 3:52PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/nasas-forgotten-female-frontierswomen/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/nasas-forgotten-female-frontierswomen/</guid><description><![CDATA[Damn Period!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Candace]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 14th 2009 8:21AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/nasas-forgotten-female-frontierswomen/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/nasas-forgotten-female-frontierswomen/</guid><description><![CDATA[more like damn MEN!!!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[pdog79764]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 14th 2009 8:43AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/nasas-forgotten-female-frontierswomen/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/nasas-forgotten-female-frontierswomen/</guid><description><![CDATA[Candace it think it is Damn.  Any woman who thinks that this is old news, isn't paying attention.  The boys get soccer, girls get dance. There is no equilivent to Fat Chicks.  Or Dog.  Maybe in the next century.  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mavis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 14th 2009 8:49AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/nasas-forgotten-female-frontierswomen/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/nasas-forgotten-female-frontierswomen/</guid><description><![CDATA[It's mans perception of women in a job that is dominated by men. In most working environments, men are slower to make change than women. Without the classes required by most large corporations to introduce changes, everything would still be like it was in the '50's. There are a few women who manage to get promoted to positions of management but, as I've seen this often, they are usually the 'token.'  They may think they 'earned' their way to the top and some of them have but, they would've gotten there sooner had their company not been gender-biased.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[NanaSpeaks]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 14th 2009 8:50AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/nasas-forgotten-female-frontierswomen/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/nasas-forgotten-female-frontierswomen/</guid><description><![CDATA[i very very seldom post but in this case i just had too on one hand yes i do agree as for the "token " i was passed over for promotion more than once becouse of that  but in thoes case's each and everytime them women came running to me to ask me how to do this or that  to which my reply would be well your the one that got the promotion  deal with it  and after watching them struggle for a few i would step in and help them now for the one's that have earned it  them are the ones i really enjoyed working under they do know there stuff as far as what NASA did well that was there lose as it was ours ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[mtrronan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 14th 2009 1:57PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/nasas-forgotten-female-frontierswomen/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/nasas-forgotten-female-frontierswomen/</guid><description><![CDATA[That reason they gave is nothing but garbage of why women weren't in space a lot sooner.  Fact is, it took NASA that long to find a woman who wouldn't take up every second of "air time" on the radios!  All the other women before always thought they were talking on the phone!  No you know the REAL of the story... : )]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 14th 2009 8:50AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/nasas-forgotten-female-frontierswomen/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/nasas-forgotten-female-frontierswomen/</guid><description><![CDATA[This is an old wives tale perpetuated by men who refuse to acknowledge they gossip more than women.  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[NanaSpeaks]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 14th 2009 8:54AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/nasas-forgotten-female-frontierswomen/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/nasas-forgotten-female-frontierswomen/</guid><description><![CDATA[Well, I would happen to think there is something to it.  I even bet you really believe it as well, I mean you even put it in your screen name for crying out loud! lol : )]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[joe]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 14th 2009 9:01AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/nasas-forgotten-female-frontierswomen/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/nasas-forgotten-female-frontierswomen/</guid><description><![CDATA[Tch tch, that's Speaks as in speaking. Meaning, speaking on concerns for grandchildren after divorce, death, etc.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[NanaSpeaks]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 14th 2009 9:15AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/nasas-forgotten-female-frontierswomen/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/10/14/nasas-forgotten-female-frontierswomen/</guid><description><![CDATA[Please note, Nicholas Emler, BSc(S'ton) MA(Oxf) PhD(Lond) FBPsS CPsychol, <br>Professor at the University of Surrey, England, states that you are incorrect.  Look up his groundbreaking research into gossip and social structure, and you will find that men who gossip outnumber women who gossip by an order of two to one.  The research also shows that 80 percent of our conversations are spent on discussing other people and their habits, regardless of gender.<br><br>So, I'm afraid your position doesn't hold water.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 15th 2009 4:39PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
