Comments by "KGS" (@kgs2280) on "I Changed Astronomy Forever. He Won the Nobel Prize for It. | 'Almost Famous' by Op-Docs" video.

@Lifethix Because as girls and women we’re constantly taught that being a wife and mother is all we’re put on this earth for, and we’re not good enough for anything else. Also, we’re here to support “our men”, not ever diminish him in any way, including showing pride in our accomplishments, and to not expect anything else for ourselves. At least this was the common thought process in the past (I was taught this in my own life, so it’s not like it’s ancient history), and it is just now really beginning to change.
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I also love the barely suppressed anger and frustration in her comments. She has every right to be angry and frustrated. I know I would have been.
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@takanara7 And it wasn’t just “back then”. Anything in STEM is still sexist, but it is beginning, ever so slowly, to change. And just look at all the current stories and comments about the women athletes in the Olympics; male athletes making comments about how the female athletes “should” be doing the very things the women are winning gold medals for, when these same men are not winning anything. Not to mention the bikini uniforms. That’s what patriarchy is all about. We’ve still got a long, long way to go. I’m hoping that all the media stories put enough of a spotlight on these things to make even more change.
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@piotrd.4850 That wasn’t quite the point I was making. I was saying that, often, women are treated as second class people BECAUSE we’re the ones who have babies, and we’re taught that we should not ever hope for anything else in our lives, like something different that we might really want or naturally be really good at. That we shouldn’t have dreams for ourselves outside of being wives (usually submissive to our husbands) and mothers, that we should just shut up and “stay in our lane” and be happy with the “prescribed” life plan (by “God” usually, and that’s in parentheses because the God reason is usually used to control someone, since God never actually told women that was the plan she had for women). I chose not to have children (for many reasons, all of them personal and no one else’s business), and I caught a LOT of flack about it, especially by being called “selfish”, as if I owed some unknown entity use of my body in order to come to earth, when there are plenty of other women who really want children and will be more than happy to provide that entity a vehicle to come through, and who just might make a heck of a lot better mother than I would have. I just don’t agree that my personal life purpose (and that of every other female on the planet) is to be a wife, i.e. a support system for a man, do whatever he commands, and bear him children, and that is my ONLY life purpose because “someone” said so, and I should just shut up, accept it and do it, with no consideration of what I might want for my life. Where’s free will in that? And I will tell you that, for me personally (I’m not advocating it for all women, as they get to make their own choices), the choice to not have children was the #1 best decision I ever made for my life, (and, very likely, the best decision for any child or children i might have had). On top of that, I was free to pursue my dreams, as any person, not just men, should be able to do. I hope that clarifies the intent of my previous comment a bit.
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