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Sexist Messages in Space -- Experts Worry Aliens Will Get the Wrong Impression of Humanity | National Review Online

by KATHERINE TIMPF September 11, 2015

 We’re not doing enough to promote diversity to aliens. 

Space Diversity

During the British Science Festival, a group of experts pondered whether or not some of the images we have sent into space might be too sexist and too white — which would clearly be sending the wrong message to any aliens out there. 

Yes, seriously.

Dr. Jill Stuart, considered an expert on the “politics” of space, expressed particular concern about a plaque on the 1972 Pioneer 10 spacecraft that featured a naked man and woman.

“The plaque shows a man raising his hand in a very manly fashion while a woman stands behind him, appearing all meek and submissive,” Stuart said, according to an article in the Guardian.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/423882/seti-sexist-images-space-aliens-experts