10. "RE: HMS Macross: Dramatis Personae"
In response to message #7
>? The Russians have always been ahead of us in this regard. They had >female fighter pilots as far back as the Second World War, and women >fought very successfully as partisans in German-occupied Soviet >territories. The Soviet Union sent a woman into space decades >before we got around to it.
Yeah, but that's the Soviet Union, a country ideologically committed to total equality in all things, never mind how it really was. The Tsar's Russia was a very different animal, much more chauvinistic. Though I suppose with the Macross falling many things are possible, so it's a minor point.