I think what she’s saying is, here is this anecdote of some engineers not knowing how (cis) women work, anyone calling me out on my bullshit is sexist like those men. I think? Like this is me grasping at straws, I fully don’t understand what she means. Maybe it’s like others have said though, “even smart people make mistakes” or whatever, but it feels like a weird pull for just that idea.

Putting aside this, while yes obviously the 100 tampons story is extremely funny it’s also potentially not that crazy? Maybe an afab comrade will tell me this is a bad take but tampons are pretty light, NASA already lives and breathes redundancy, and it’s not like they go bad, so why not throw in a bunch of extra? Obviously I’m sure a lot of it was just that yeah the NASA nerds don’t know how periods work and this is an absurd amount of extra but I feel that story is overblown. Will do self crit if there’s something deeper about it I’m missing