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Re:The idea of a university as a free space rather than a sa... by thescribe on Sunday March 20, 2016 @01:46AM (#11321963)
Who's to say what Neil Armstrong identifies as? Also this is excluding people who identify as non-man, non-womyn genders. It is also ableist against those who have limited mobility by comparing achievements to walking and jumping.

There's no pleasing people who are a prior offended.

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Re:The idea of a university as a free space rather than a sa... by dalke on Sunday March 20, 2016 @06:00AM (#11322396)
Neil Armstrong. That's who gets to say what Neil Armstrong identifies as.

Neil Armstrong publicly identified as a man. "That's one small step for a man" is an expression of that identity, as is "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind." Everything we know about him, from his own statements about being a "schoolboy" in Ohio on up, is consistent with an expression of that identity.

He also publicly identified as an engineer: “I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer, born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace and propelled by compressible flow.” - http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2012/08/obituary

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