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Given past history I wouldn't expect men to be affronted by an inability to be a spacer. I'd expect them to dismiss the entire profession as beneath them, in as much as it's dominated by women.

It wasn't a human culture, so the reactions were rather different, but in C. J. Cherryh's Chanur series, the leonine hani society only had female spacers, who were quite important, and they protected their menfolk as being rather childlike and overexcitable. I can't quite recall what the males thought about this arrangement, but they were used to it. When Pyanfar Chanur saved her husband's life and took him into space with her crew, society was affronted. However, she was a pioneer, and males were later allowed to go out into space if they wished.