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Erasure (mander.xyz)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not even sure how I feel right now

Anger is a good starting place.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

"the first thing to do is to raise hell. That's always the first thing to do when you're faced with an injustice and feel powerless."

-'Mother' Jones.

-Michael Scott

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 months ago

I feel like getting off threads might be a good start...

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The amazing thing to me is that these clowns think of themselves as tough guys.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Come on down to the streets without your security detail"

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women.

-Mary Wollstonecraft

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Someone else pointed out that if you let husbands beat their wives then when the husband is beaten by his lord he has an easy way to get rid of his anger.

You might enjoy this novel.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/walk-to-the-end-of-the-world-suzy-mckee-charnas/gYbNQdVp3C69aPSU?ean=9781466821149&next=t&digital=t

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

They gotta pretend since they are so weak that they can't accept any criticism.

Sadly there are plenty of people who consider that as being strong

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

https://www.nasa.gov/universe/nasa-intern-found-hope-in-the-moon-2/

This part is still there for now

[+] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (5 children)

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Her accomplishments are erased from public record, making it hard to prove she worked where she worked and affected her career.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The point is that a record someone has about you should not be the thing that defines you. Is that such an odd take and/or did I fail miserably to communicate that?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

You communicated it fine. It's an "odd" take because you're being deliberately obtuse.

She's hurt. Maybe she's being hyperbolic about being "erased" but this was something she was truly proud of and it's been taken away.

It wasn't taken away because she did something wrong. It was taken away because they decided she was given the honour because of her identity, not because of her accomplishments.

Let that sink in: They've erased a public acknowledgement of her because of her identity. Because she's a woman, NASA, her country, are no longer proud of her, so now she doesn't know how to feel.

I think she has the right to be hyperbolic, and I think you're the one who needs to get out from behind your keyboard and "touch grass". She already walked over fields of it to get here. (But of course, how would you know that? Her story was erased.)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is that such an odd take and/or did I fail miserably to communicate that?

I mean it's a bit of both. I understand where you're coming from in being proud of what you've accomplished regardless of what a website says, but when it's something that you should be recognized for, and have been recognized for, and it's taken away from you for such insulting reasons, it's a different story than just "a record someone has about you".

And regardless of what you're trying to communicate, telling someone who went from being homeless to working at NASA that they need to touch grass is a pretty wild take

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You are correct, I would not say that to her directly. Only to other 3rd persons out here. Hm.

I generally do not feel the need to get validation from random people. Why do so many people (majority?) want that? I mean not just like but really want/need it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I don't mean this in an insulting way, but have you ever come close to accomplishing what this woman did? NASA officials are not "random people". Wanting to receive recognition for your work is a very human thing and it's weird that you're trying to make it weird.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

A part of "breaking through the glass ceiling" is setting a trail for others where they have not been. Her story of overcoming adversity helps others in such a place have the ability to see themselves. My understanding is that it is important to help bridge our societies failures in egalitarianism, and as such those whom have done so wish for the trials to be highlighted so they can be addressed, to serve as beacons for others in a similar plight, and to validate their negative experience to peoples that would pretend it does not exist. The latter being a kind of erasure.

[–] Throwaway131447 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I feel like this is such a privileged mindset.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Hm. Elon Musk is constantly looking for external approval. I do not think this is a matter of privilege, different people want or even need different amounts of external validation.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Let's delete all your bank accounts and see how you feel about it then. Those are just digital files stored on a server after all.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

your entire existence is disavowed because of fragile racist white males

“Imagine being mad at pixels on a screen!”

This is the ultimate form of brain rot

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The point is that a record someone has about you should not be the thing that defines you. Is that such an odd take and/or did I fail miserably to communicate that?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If that's what you intended to communicate, you missed your mark by a mile when you insulted them by telling them they needed to "touch grass".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

You are right, that was way too much and I would have never said that to anyone directly. Only here with 3rd person in anonymity.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

Spoken like someone how has not accomplished anything in life. Touch grass and ignore the oppression.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

If your files got erased, touch grass

brilliant take, great job

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

may every fascist be able to afford a rope.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Deleted--responded to wrong thread.