Wrong on all counts as usual
The Apollo anniversary is bringing out the usual crap. Via ZH, the usual media demons and "social" "science" demons are applying their usual bizarre delusions and brainless bigotries as usual:

The culture that put men on the moon was intense, fun, family-unfriendly, and mostly white and male.

Vintag.es reposts some Life Mag photos of the astronaut families watching and waiting anxiously.

Those astronauts were ENABLED by their families. Without the "family-friendly" support, they wouldn't have the motive to act as pioneers.

This is ALWAYS true of pioneers.

PIONEERS ARE MALE.

That's a flat biological fact, true from insects to mammals. Nature can afford to waste males, so males have the tendency to venture out and find new hives.

Married male pioneers are motivated by a desire to feed and support their families. Unmarried males are motivated by a false culture-generated lie that pioneering will make them more suitable to females. This is a cruel vicious hoax, but it always works for a while.

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The one thing that really stands out in these pictures is TOBACCO. All the adults are handling their anxiety by smoking. No snowflakes here, no Gaian wackos here. Just a single PURPOSE of helping the pioneers find a new hive. Everything else gives way to achieve the PURPOSE.

So "mostly male" is backwards. The culture of NASA was designed to sacrifice males, not to empower males.

"Mostly white" was true but trivial. At that time America was mostly white. In a population that's 88% white, a group of three astronauts is highly likely to be white. At that time there were no barriers to blacks gaining the type of background needed for astronauts. Black men had been in the military since WW1, had been in some universities since 1890 (see Carver) and had been in all universities since 1954. Black families simply saw no reason to sacrifice their males for such an abstract purpose. This wasn't a uniquely black attitude. Lots of non-abstract people (including me) saw no point in the space project.

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