Celebs Like Katy Perry, Lauren Sánchez, And Gayle King Just Went To Space, And They Really Want You To Think It's Good For Women

Note: This station is an Op-Ed and shares the author's idiosyncratic views.

If you privation an thought of what performative popular feminism is nether Donald Trump, look nary further than the all-female Blue Origin flight.

Earlier today, the backstage abstraction institution owned by Jeff Bezos sent a fig of women into abstraction — celebrated faces including his fiancé, Lauren Sánchez, arsenic good arsenic Gayle King and Katy Perry. Depressingly, it's the archetypal all-female abstraction unit since a Russian pistillate went to abstraction unsocial 60 years ago. And, ohio boy, bash they privation you to cognize that.

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A speedy enactment connected the connection "crew." It's the connection Blue Origin uses successful their press material, but to beryllium crystal clear, the New Shepard vessel used is "fully autonomous." In their astir 11-minute travel to the Kármán line, nary of the women connected committee were really operating the ship. "Passengers" is arguably a amended word. As such, it's much of an advert for Blue Origin's abstraction tourism for affluent radical than immoderate benignant of technological feat. 58 radical had already been flown to abstraction connected the aforesaid ship.

Pre-flight, the ladies each sat down for an Elle interrogation called "For All Womankind." Here, it's noted that the radical was organized by Lauren — the aforesaid pistillate who sat with Jeff adjacent the beforehand of the inauguration of Mr. "Grab-Em-By-The-Pussy." Amanda Nguyen, a home unit activist, said successful the interrogation that Blue Origin told her, “We privation to uplift your women’s rights work.”

But, successful December, Amazon rolled back its DEI programs. Conversely, the Elle interrogation highlights the radical diverseness of the crew, with Katy saying that she wants to amusement her girl "that immoderate benignant of idiosyncratic tin scope their dreams — nary substance your background, your ethnicity, your economical situation, oregon your acquisition level."

So imagination large kid, unless you're a factory worker for Amazon abroad. I don't contradict that it does get complicated, arsenic idiosyncratic similar Amanda's enactment does merit to beryllium highlighted, but it feels vastly disingenuous erstwhile the antheral down it each said helium was "very optimistic" astir a 2nd Trump presidency.

There was besides the accent of hairsbreadth and makeup. "If I could instrumentality glam up with me, I would bash that. We are going to enactment the 'ass' successful astronaut," Katy told Elle, aboriginal saying that she hopes "to animate a full caller procreation and marque abstraction and subject glam." There's plentifulness of insinuation that the crushed women are underrepresented successful immoderate STEM fields is due to the fact that it's not girlypop enough, and not, arsenic Amanda notes for one, "Gender-based unit is simply a large crushed wherefore truthful galore women successful STEM don’t proceed connected with their training, and I was 1 of those women."

In a pre-flight Instagram video, Katy noted that they were called the "Taking Up Space Crew." Again, present is the connection of women's liberation, the nodding to the thought that women should beryllium unafraid to beryllium themselves and instrumentality up room, but what is down it? There's nary broader inaugural beyond "women successful abstraction is good" due to the fact that that would beryllium excessively overmuch similar DEI.

I cognize it's annoying to "People are dying, Kim" everything, but honestly, women are virtually dying successful this state due to the fact that of a deficiency of entree to termination care. Go to space, whatever, but indispensable it dependable truthful self-important?

Katy further spoke astir "Mother Earth" and said aft her formation — wherever she promoted her upcoming Lifetimes circuit — “It’s not astir me. It’s not astir singing my songs. It’s astir a corporate vigor and making abstraction for aboriginal women. It’s astir this fantastic satellite that we spot close retired determination and appreciating it. This is each for the payment of Earth.”

Call maine a hater but...how???? How overmuch wealth was spent connected this that could person been spent connected a cardinal different things??? A fewer days ago, the medication that Jeff is truthful fond of projected slashing NASA's funding. But let's not interest astir the diminution of existent government-funded probe and alternatively observe the profit-hungry backstage companies. I emotion you, oligarchs!

I conjecture we present cognize that abstraction tourism isn't conscionable for the antheral billionaires hellbent connected destroying our planet: Women tin bash it too!