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Outing Sally Ride: Her sexual orientation has nothing to do with space ships
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| 7/24/12
| Virginia Heffernan
Posted on 07/24/2012 6:39:09 PM PDT by Uncle Slayton
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To: Uncle Slayton
I did not know he was lesbian. I guess she was pretty secretive about it. I applaud her accomplishments, in any event.
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posted on
07/24/2012 6:57:36 PM PDT
by
ought-six
( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
To: DoughtyOne
I believe the first woman in space was a Russian cosmonaut, many years prior to Ride. Her sexual orientation is unknown.
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posted on
07/24/2012 6:58:11 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: Uncle Slayton
All liberals are interested in is gays. I’m beginning to think that those liberals who say they are straight....aren’t.
Turn ons for libs, sex, gay sex, transgender sex, lesbians, bi-sexual sex, condoms, contraception, abortion.
They can’t accept the fact that maybe just being a human being is enough. They have to stick their noses in your sexlife to make themselves happy.
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posted on
07/24/2012 6:59:51 PM PDT
by
mardi59
(THE REBELLION IS ON!!!)
To: dayglored
You know, I think you’re right. Thanks for reminding me.
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posted on
07/24/2012 7:00:08 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Remove all Democrats from the Republican party, and we won't have much Left, just a lot of Right.)
To: ought-six
typo: he should have been she.
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posted on
07/24/2012 7:00:26 PM PDT
by
ought-six
( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
To: DRey
What can we tell the students at the Sally Ride Elementary School?
To: Uncle Slayton
Now I am indeed confused. You think our government, under President Reagan, placed a lesbian in a position to be idolized by our daughters by sending her in to space? You really, really believe that? Or could it be that, at the time, no one had a clue? I had no idea she was a lesbian until I read what you posted, and I was alive in 1983.
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posted on
07/24/2012 7:02:34 PM PDT
by
La Lydia
To: dayglored
She was private about her private life. I wish the rest were too. Leave her memory in peace.
+1. Her orientation had nothing to do with her accomplishments and it doesn't sound as if she used it as some sort of stepping stone (unlike E Warren and her "Native American heritage", e.g.). She was a role model for my daughters back in the day - Stanford PhD, astronaut, etc. May her memory be for a blessing.
To: Paradox
” I think the majority of Americans are tired of the hype and the derision. No body cares anymore, they just dont like it thrown in their faces time and time again. “
Exactly .
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posted on
07/24/2012 7:04:15 PM PDT
by
sushiman
To: Uncle Slayton
Explains why she died so early at 61.
The life expectancy for women in the US is 78. Even longer for folks who are in the physical condition that astronauts maintain.
To: Uncle Slayton
The fact most of the public didn’t know makes it fairly obvious she kept her life a private matter. I care very little about how people live their private lives so long as they’re not victimizing others or slamming it in my face.
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posted on
07/24/2012 7:05:47 PM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(Buying Drain-O requires photo I.D... yet voting doesn't???)
To: cripplecreek
I neither knew nor cared. It was her choice, and she didn’t make it an issue for everyone else.
I wish more folks who make that choice would act the same.
May she rest in peace, and may her family and loved ones grieve fully and find their own peace.
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posted on
07/24/2012 7:07:32 PM PDT
by
MortMan
(Laughter is the best medicine, especially when ridiculing your enemies.)
To: <1/1,000,000th%
Explains why she died so early at 61. Pancreatic cancer explains why she died so early at 61.
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posted on
07/24/2012 7:07:54 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: PapaNew
Actually, homosexuality is based on fear of the opposite sex.
To: ScottinVA
"...slamming it in my face."And we're talking about queers here? Wrong choice of words there, FRiend.
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posted on
07/24/2012 7:08:33 PM PDT
by
Copenhagen Smile
(What if Jesus comes back like that?)
To: dayglored
You are correct. It was a cosmmonaut woman who was first. Let me rephrase, said cosmonaut was the first to return to earth. A prior soviet woman burned up on re-entry. Her initial distress calls were reputed to be heard by two Italian ham operators.
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posted on
07/24/2012 7:09:23 PM PDT
by
cardinal4
(Do I really need a /s tag?)
To: Uncle Slayton
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posted on
07/24/2012 7:09:40 PM PDT
by
SIDENET
("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
To: Uncle Slayton
She’s not around to refute anything said about her.
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posted on
07/24/2012 7:09:40 PM PDT
by
DBrow
To: cripplecreek
Didn’t matter at all. Just heard about it with these reports the last couple days. I always regarded her as wonderfully accomplished in a way the Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton can’t match.
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posted on
07/24/2012 7:10:17 PM PDT
by
jimfree
(In Nov 2012 my 12 y/o granddaughter will have more relevant executive experience than Barack Obama)
To: <1/1,000,000th%
Explains why she died so early at 61. The life expectancy for women in the US is 78. Even longer for folks who are in the physical condition that astronauts maintain. You want to explain how being a lesbian causes pancreatic cancer? Steve Jobs died of pancreatic cancer at age 56. Was he a lesbian too?
Just... shut up.
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posted on
07/24/2012 7:10:43 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
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