Feminine Character Works

I recently watched this movie Hidden Figures after years of watching clips on YouTube and wanting to see the whole thing. I like it for a lot of reasons.  I can identify with the mathy girl main character. I've long been interested in space to some degree.  It has some kind of Southern setting and large parts of it were filmed in my home state of Georgia.  But the thing that has most intrigued me for a lot of years is that "social outcasts" at the bottom of the totem pole -- Black women in a racist and misogynistic world -- played such a critical role in getting the US to the moon. I have long hypothesized that this is not mere coincidence but there's actually a function to it. These were people who weren't going to get by on looks, charm or who their daddy was. They were going to be tolerated solely because they were talented and their talent was needed and for no other reason.  There would be no wiggle room, socially, for the occasional mistake. They basically ...