The issue here is Williams.
People are busy with their own lives, worried about their own health and their loved ones.
So an outpouring of concern for someone they’ve never met is a positive, in my humble opinion.
Williams is an inspiration to us all.
She’s gotten a raw deal.
They’re emotionally invested in seeing her come out of this OK and to return safely to Earth.
So the milk of human kindness she’s being shown is a pure good, right?
This isn’t the early ’70s, when worrying about astronauts was your patriotic duty.
This public reaction is not concern, empathy or common decency.
It’s the Male Gaze.
Men judging women on their looks.
Wondering why our space explorers can’t tart it up for us a little bit more.
Imagine your take being, “I don’t see anybody asking the man about how he looks!”
Like we’re all down here going, “Hey Suni, give us a smile, wouldya?”
What a way to go through life.
What a career to choose.
You go to school.
Get your degree in Journalism.
Graduate with six-figure student loan debt.
Until then, eat up, astronaut.
The world is just looking out for you.
