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But all in all, it was still a great day. Most importantly, it was my very first Pride since coming out of the closet, and my mom actually accompanied me!

That’s so awesome! I hope there’s many more to come, too!! Happy Pride <3

In a 2002 oral history interview with Rebecca Wright, then coordinator for the NASA Johnson Space Center History Office, Ride was asked what items NASA had added to her flight kit, including the tampons in question.

“I remember the engineers trying to decide how many tampons should fly on a one-week flight; they asked, ‘Is 100 the right number?’” Ride recalled, according to the transcript. She replied that, “No, that would not be the right number.”

“They said, ‘Well, we want to be safe,’” continued Ride. “I said, ‘Well, you can cut that in half with no problem at all.’”

NASA engineers apparently had a history of sending women to space with inadequate supplies. In that same interview, Ride noted that the engineers had also decided that women astronauts would want makeup. So, they designed a makeup kit.

“The engineers at NASA, in their infinite wisdom, decided that women astronauts would want makeup — so they designed a makeup kit,” Ride was quoted as saying in a January 2018 tweet shared by the NASA History Office.

It is not uncommon for astronauts to head to space with their own personal hygiene kits, which have been issued as standard equipment for astronauts since the 1960s. These kits typically contain items like a toothbrush, lotion, deodorant, comb, and razor. But in a predominantly male field in the 1980s, experts apparently had limited knowledge in the types of hygiene items that would be necessary for a woman.

The optional — and unused — makeup kit included eyeliner, mascara, eye shadow, eye makeup remover, blusher, and lip gloss. It went on display in the Human Spaceflight at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, in 2002.

What a fascinating little piece of history! They even designed a makeup kit smh. Thanks for the rabbit hole!

Sometimes tricking our brain is easy lol

I hope that helps!!

Just want to second all of this advice. Make showering as pleasant as possible - I use podcasts the most. I’ll even bring in my coffee or a cold beverage and reframe it as “spa” time.

Also showering every other day, as long as you’re not in a super hot climate, is usually plenty to keep yourself at normal levels of cleanliness.

Lemme tell you about how we got the right scientists to be able to put a person on the moon.

Some days it’s impossible to escape the reality of how women are treated.

That’s so gross and frustrating. I’m sorry that you had to handle that encounter.

Could’ve written this about Sims 4 and it would hold up just as well.

Sorry EA ruined a game you enjoy. That sucks.

Ah y’all have raked me over the coals quite a bit over this. Fine. Whatever lol defend this cheating jerk who can’t stop himself from endangering everyone by drinking and driving over and over again.

I’m sure his texting game is A+ and he totally just forgot to text or something. I don’t know why this image would then be circulated around for discussion, but whatever.

I’m sorry you got questioned instead of being helped here.

For the record, I enjoy your thought-provoking posts. I might not agree with how some of it is phrased or whatever, but it almost always stirs conversation.

Thanks for the links! This is really interesting, I think my son would really enjoy looking into these sources.

There’s a lot more professions than doctor or nurse where one might have a patient under their care. It’s also possible that OP meant charge instead of patient depending on if English is their first language.

Plenty of doctors and nurses are naive or lacking in certain areas of “smarts”.

OP has also had “I am a 40 year old traveling nurses who is a lesbian” in their profile for a while.

Seriously, is OP going to ignore the other senators that were against this same bill? It wasn’t just Sinema.

Do you have any reason to believe he’s the emotionally abusive type of asshole?

HIs multiple extramarital affairs? You don’t consider cheating over and over again to be emotional abuse?

Hell, we have more evidence for him being the victim of abuse than the perpetrator.

Oh we do? What are you referencing?

bizarre phenomenon

Is it bizarre for straight men to enjoy women sexually?

That’s not what the historic definition of the word is, but I don’t know if people are trying to reclaim it and redefine it so I can’t speak on that.

I do know that it is seen as offensive generally.

Thank you! I actually learned about those two terms recently, I appreciate you putting those out here!

My husband is finsexual and it’s nice to have a more accurate word for it :)

He routinely drives drunk and has had multiple affairs.

But he’s not that type of asshole?

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