Teh One Who Knocks
02-11-2017, 01:14 PM
By Ian Miles Cheong - Heat Street
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Jessica Chastain, the Oscar-nominated actress of Zero Dark Thirty and The Help, is working on a new TV series that highlights the contributions of women who worked at NASA in the 1960s and were denied a chance to be a part of the Mercury space program.
But the event series, which carries the working title of Mercury 13, has come under fire from progressives for its subject matter—they say it’s stealing thunder from Hidden Figures, the movie about female African-American NASA mathematicians who contributed to Project Mercury.
Deadline reports that the series will follow the work of scientist William Randolph Lovelace II and his creation of an experimental project to test the viability of sending women to space. Lovelace helped to spearhead the tests for NASA’s male astronauts.
The scientist sought out 13 female pilots throughout the country who were willing to take the same risks as their male counterparts and contribute to the space race. The women who would later become known as the Mercury 13 passed the same tests as the men and in some cases even surpassed them. However, Lovelace was unable to secure cooperation from NASA and shut down the project despite the astronauts’ pleas to President John F. Kennedy and a Congressional hearing.
The series—Chastain is teaming up with Sully writer Todd Komarnicki and TV producer Christina Wayne—intends to shed light on how government agencies and top politicians conspired to kill the project.
In other words, it’s a story well worth telling. But that fact didn’t stop outrage warriors from immediately inserting their identity politics into the situation to twist something good into something problematic.
A tweet by Guardian columnist Jessica Valenti read: “They’re not even TRYING to be slick about it. So blatant.”
“is it gonna be called ‘Shmidden Schmigures?’ snarked @shaebutter76.
“When black women do something extraordinary, someone always has to ask ‘Well what about white women?’ As if we forgot that they exist,” wrote Morgan Jerkins.
“Basically white women after Hidden figures, to be honest,” replied @GoddessCru.
Because the story involves white women being silenced, some people are now labeling it as a transgressive tale that only serves to diminish the importance of Hidden Figures and other stories about women of color in the same arena.
Much like how we’ve seen fat activists bitch at each other over not being fat enough, this time social justice warriors are turning an instance of true sexism into something not worthy of being heard because it doesn’t fit their narrative.
It’s almost as if their movement is more based on what they want to say than actual adversity.
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Jessica Chastain, the Oscar-nominated actress of Zero Dark Thirty and The Help, is working on a new TV series that highlights the contributions of women who worked at NASA in the 1960s and were denied a chance to be a part of the Mercury space program.
But the event series, which carries the working title of Mercury 13, has come under fire from progressives for its subject matter—they say it’s stealing thunder from Hidden Figures, the movie about female African-American NASA mathematicians who contributed to Project Mercury.
Deadline reports that the series will follow the work of scientist William Randolph Lovelace II and his creation of an experimental project to test the viability of sending women to space. Lovelace helped to spearhead the tests for NASA’s male astronauts.
The scientist sought out 13 female pilots throughout the country who were willing to take the same risks as their male counterparts and contribute to the space race. The women who would later become known as the Mercury 13 passed the same tests as the men and in some cases even surpassed them. However, Lovelace was unable to secure cooperation from NASA and shut down the project despite the astronauts’ pleas to President John F. Kennedy and a Congressional hearing.
The series—Chastain is teaming up with Sully writer Todd Komarnicki and TV producer Christina Wayne—intends to shed light on how government agencies and top politicians conspired to kill the project.
In other words, it’s a story well worth telling. But that fact didn’t stop outrage warriors from immediately inserting their identity politics into the situation to twist something good into something problematic.
A tweet by Guardian columnist Jessica Valenti read: “They’re not even TRYING to be slick about it. So blatant.”
“is it gonna be called ‘Shmidden Schmigures?’ snarked @shaebutter76.
“When black women do something extraordinary, someone always has to ask ‘Well what about white women?’ As if we forgot that they exist,” wrote Morgan Jerkins.
“Basically white women after Hidden figures, to be honest,” replied @GoddessCru.
Because the story involves white women being silenced, some people are now labeling it as a transgressive tale that only serves to diminish the importance of Hidden Figures and other stories about women of color in the same arena.
Much like how we’ve seen fat activists bitch at each other over not being fat enough, this time social justice warriors are turning an instance of true sexism into something not worthy of being heard because it doesn’t fit their narrative.
It’s almost as if their movement is more based on what they want to say than actual adversity.