It’s all downhill from here. Literally. 

A man out for a walk with his dog decided to ramp things up (or down, in this case) by turning an icy hill into a sled run. Except no sled was necessary here, the man simply slid down the hill on his back. His canine companion ran excitedly behind him, only to completely clobber him when he came to a halt at the bottom of the slope. 

Watch as the man tries to contain his laughter alongside the ecstatic dog. 

The Dragon has returned to Earth. 

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule parachuted down to the Atlantic Ocean Friday morning, successfully capping the first test of a commercial spacecraft that will likely bring astronauts to the International Space Station — possibly in the next year. 

The Crew Dragon capsule gently splashed down off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida at 8:45 a.m. ET after spending five days docked to the space station. The demonstration mission — which carried no humans but a dummy covered in sensors — is the first of at least one more test that NASA will use to determine if the Dragon capsule passes the space agency’s rigid safety standards. 

But it’s a big first step. 

After the capsule reached the space station last Sunday morning, NASA astronaut Anne McClain recognized the event on a live webcast: “We knew how significant it was and how important it was, really for the whole history of spaceflight. I’ve said it before: It is a new era,” said McClain. 

Indeed it is. Only NASA and the Russian space agency Roscosmos have ever delivered astronauts to the space station. Now, commercial providers — specifically SpaceX and Boeing — are set to fulfill the role, while offering considerably cheaper seats ($58 million per seat rather than $81 million).

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After landing in the ocean, SpaceX boated out to the capsule, and now plans to retrieve the spacecraft, lift it onto its recovery ship, and return to the Kennedy Space Center where the company houses rockets in a 54,000-square-foot hangar. 

SpaceX accomplished three main objectives during this test mission, called Demo-1: A takeoff, space station docking, and landing — though NASA will certainly scrutinize the spacecraft’s performance, in part by assessing how the SpaceX test dummy, nicknamed Ripley, experienced the high-speed flights. 

As Dragon parachuted down to Earth, it deployed four parachutes, which SpaceX commentators called “healthy parachutes.”

Still, NASA expects that there will be kinks to work out.

“I’m very comfortable with where we’re headed with this flight. I fully expect we’re going to learn something on this flight. I guarantee you everything will not work exactly right. And that’s cool,” Bill Gerstenmaier, the associate administrator for NASA’s human spaceflight program, said during a briefing before the launch, The Washington Post reports. 

The next date for NASA’s second crew capsule demonstration, a mission dubbed Demo-2, is undetermined, but SpaceX has the launch listed as a future mission on its website. 

This piece is part of an ongoing series exploring what it means to be a woman on the internet. 

Log off. Make your account private. Block them. These are a few of the strategies women are told to use when faced with online harassment. But they miss the point. 

Emily May, the cofounder and executive director of Hollaback!, a nonprofit working to end harassment, says that in the same way that girls are told to never go outside alone at night, always carry mace, or to not wear short skirts, women are expected to make the extra effort to keep themselves safe online. 

But that approach doesn’t always make sense. It shouldn’t all be on women; men need to pitch in to act as effective allies and help solve the problem.

The fact is, online harassment is common. Around 41 percent of women have been sexually harassed via text, phone, and the internet, according to a 2018 study by the nonprofit Stop Street Harassment. 

Despite that, only 55 percent of American men ages 18 to 29 say online harassment is a “major problem” as compared to 83 percent of women the same age, according to a 2017 Pew Research Center survey. On top of that, more men care about free speech than human decency. Fifty-six percent of men say “people should be able to speak their minds freely online,” while only 43 percent of men say “people should be able to feel welcome and safe in online spaces,” according to the same survey.

Women are also more likely to be proactive in the face of harassment. Of the women who witnessed harassment, 42 percent “flag or report the harassment” as compared to 33 percent of men who witnessed harassment, according to a 2016 report by the Data and Society Research Institute, which studies social and cultural issues that stem from technology.

Inaction is harmful, though. “Often, that silence allows the abuse and harassment to continue,” says Ted Bunch, the cofounder and chief development officer of A Call To Men, an organization that empowers men to redefine masculinity to prevent violence and harassment against women.  

Men don’t say anything online for the same reason they don’t in the physical world, Bunch says. “They’ve been taught to be silent about the violence that men perpetuate toward women.” 

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“Men have greater freedoms, often, to express themselves and to move into spaces, physical or virtual.”

That’s the wrong approach. Soraya Chemaly, the director of the Women’s Media Center Speech Project, says that anyone who actually cares about a functioning democracy and free speech needs to let marginalized voices be heard. “Men have greater freedoms, often, to express themselves and to move into spaces, physical or virtual. Using those privileges to help women do the same is generally a welcome and good thing,” Chemaly writes in an email. The Women’s Media Center is a nonprofit that advocates for women in media.

The issue extends off the internet, too. Bunch’s organization coined the term “the man box,” which explains that men learn a set of demeaning values: that women and girls aren’t as valuable as men, that women are the property of men, and that women are sexual objects. Those three beliefs create violence and discrimination against women, he says.

Practice mindful sharing

To help prevent online harassment from happening in the first place, Chemaly advises men to amplify women’s voices and retweet their thoughts and ideas.

By not elevating women’s voices, Chemaly says men “create an atmosphere in which women’s voices are more likely to be isolated,” adding that this is especially true when women comment about politics, sports, or technology.

“Men can set the tone on their own social channels by sharing content that values all women and girls.”

It’s also important to share messages that reinforce healthy masculinity, which is what A Call To Men tries to do. “Men can set the tone on their own social channels by sharing content that values all women and girls,” Bunch says. His organization is currently promoting the #HealthyManhood campaign, in which men sign a pledge to listen and believe women, reflect on and challenge what they’ve learned about gender, talk with other men and boys about how to demonstrate healthy, respectful masculinity, and use their influence and platform to make the world a more equal place. 

Speak up and reach out

When harassment does occur, Chemaly recommends men confront the other person  — within reason. “Men can call out other men without incurring some of the same risks that women would,” she explains.

All it takes is saying something like, “Hey, that’s not cool,” or “That’s not appropriate,” adds Hollaback’s May. Anything more could escalate tensions and make the situation worse. She also recommends reaching out to the person being harassed, asking if they’re OK, and offering to help in whatever way they feel comfortable. 

Men can also join the HeartMob, a Hollaback! project that works like an online support group and feels like a virtual hug. As demonstrated in this video, when someone reports a case of online harassment, they can seek out help from the community. The community then provides support by sending positive messages, documenting the harassment with screenshots, or reporting the abuse on the person’s behalf.

For more examples on healthy manhood, Bunch points to men like Jane the Virgin star Justin Baldoni, who explores and challenges traditional ideas of masculinity through roundtable discussions on his Facebook video series, Man Enough. Bunch also recommends looking at Dwayne D. Hayes, the founder and editor-in-chief of STAND magazine, a publication that shifts away from displaying women like objects in the way men’s magazines traditionally do, and instead promotes a “balanced and whole-hearted masculinity.” 

Bunch cautions men against comparing themselves to others who they think have more toxic behavior. When men separate themselves from those people by saying “I’m not that bad — look at them” they miss an opportunity for change. 

At the end of the day, it’s important to safely address harassment wherever it occurs, both in the real world and online. 

“Online, like in the real world, in our communities, in the workplace, and in our homes, we want men to speak up and stand up against any kind of violence or discrimination against women and girls,” says Bunch. 

We’re all getting older all the time. And while that thought may not be the nicest to some people, hearing comedian Pamela Adlon share her honest thoughts about ageing and bodies will definitely make you feel better. 

Adlon — who created and stars in TV show Better Things — was a guest of Stephen Colbert’s on The Late Show, where she shared her attitude towards her body ageing. 

“I’m 50 now, and I got thicker, and so what?“ Adlon said.