Democracy Gone Astray

Democracy, being a human construct, needs to be thought of as directionality rather than an object. As such, to understand it requires not so much a description of existing structures and/or other related phenomena but a declaration of intentionality.
This blog aims at creating labeled lists of published infringements of such intentionality, of points in time where democracy strays from its intended directionality. In addition to outright infringements, this blog also collects important contemporary information and/or discussions that impact our socio-political landscape.

All the posts here were published in the electronic media – main-stream as well as fringe, and maintain links to the original texts.

[NOTE: Due to changes I haven't caught on time in the blogging software, all of the 'Original Article' links were nullified between September 11, 2012 and December 11, 2012. My apologies.]

Showing posts with label Sally Ride. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sally Ride. Show all posts

Friday, July 27, 2012

Astronaut, brainiac, educational force … oh yeah, lesbian. Why is that the news?

I bristled a bit at the news that the great Sally Ride, who died this week in San Diego at 61 of pancreatic cancer, has now in death been labelled “the first lesbian astronaut.”

She was one of nature’s aristocrats – not only a PhD physicist and the first American woman in space (and at 32, the youngest American as well) but also a Shakespeare scholar, a tennis player who could have turned pro, an entrepreneur and an activist. Her company Sally Ride Science paved the way for more girls and young women to make their way to the STEM subjects – science, technology, engineering and math.

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