There is a healthier approach, and I think that's good. But treating the girls like jockeys or sports figures, making them weigh in, oh, I think that's horrible.
It might be because there is jockeying and confusion over who has the right to make a call (an " upward status disagreement" , if you like jargon; a " pissing contest" , if you don't).
We began to see space as a place for science that the whole world could use, and by the end of the Apollo era, we weren't just sending Air Force rocket jockeys up there, we were sending scientists.
And, of course, Cold War games were being played as the U.S. and the Soviet Union jockeyed for an influence in the Congo while the interests of native citizens were barely considered at all.
He had been attracted to her by her sense of humour and she had initially been attracted to him thanks to his glamourous occupation as a jockey on wheels.