@jeffowski 'If you can't take love to the stars, then what are we doing?' A quote from the pre-splashdown press conference in progress at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR2KK8TEs #Nasa #Artemis2
NASA's Artemis II Live Mission Coverage (Official Broadcast)

This feed will provide continuous coverage of Artemis II mission activities with live commentary, beginning with tanking of the SLS (Space Launch System) roc...

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The need to evaluate men's ways of expressing emotion, and to judge that one is more "masculine" than another?

I'd be glad to see an end to that too.

@jeffowski 100% this. So much this!
@jeffowski 😭 Carroll 🌔
@wizardponderingorb @jeffowski It sounds like Carroll was a bright spot. Now we can look up at night and Carroll can be a bright spot for everyone. 🥹
@jeffowski Cutting off the audio and letting them hand each other tissues isn't peak masculinity, it's peak humanity.
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Story:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/artemis-crew-propose-name-moon-crater-astronauts-late-wife-emotional-m-rcna267093
"In a video of the emotional moments after Hansen read the emotional tribute to Caroll Weisman, the group wrapped arms around each other as they floated in zero gravity. Wiseman and Christina Koch, a NASA astronaut on Artemis II, can be seen wiping tears from their eyes."
NASA Artemis II crew propose naming moon crater after astronaut Reid Wiseman's late wife

The crew of NASA's historic Artemis II mission memorialized the late wife of one of its astronauts by proposing to name a crater on the moon after her, an emotional moment captured on NASA's livestream

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@jeffowski It's not masculinity, nor is it femininity. It's humanity. Not everything is a gender performance and there's no benefit to trying to label every human behavior or emotion with which half of humanity is allowed to do it and which isn't.

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I'll kindly disagree. Masculinity is framed as being inert as a rock at all times, and it takes a big toll on everyone.

Moving the definition of masculinity towards humanity is a good thing. We shall move all three words to the same point, so being human can't be defined in terms of being of a gender.

In short, this behavior is all three: Masculinity, femininity and humanity. These three words shan't have different meanings in this case.

We shall be humans first.

I agree with @bayindirh
in this case defining masculinity with behaviors further away from toxic masculinity (show of affection and show of empathy to the point of crying, in an extremely public context) effectively dismantles the gender stereotypes highlighting their uselessness in setting role models.

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