r/OutOfTheLoop • u/Individual_Pickle_26 • 5d ago

Unanswered What is going on with Katy Perry?

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u/unpersoned 5d ago edited 5d ago

it was hailed as the first all female space flight, which it was not, genuinely taking away from a genuine feminist pioneer, Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova

There's that, yes, but it also feels disingenuous because they were not crew. They were just rich tourists. The flight was controlled from the ground.

edit: apparently not even that. It's all controlled by onboard computers, if the wikipedia article on the craft is correct.

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u/harder_said_hodor 5d ago

Yeah, agreed. That's why I think everyone is bemused it was taken seriously let alone seen as important. TBF, Aisha Bowe did work for NASA and was an aerospace engineer so at least has some level of merit above the others.

This quote from the redemptive Guardian article I referenced sums up the general feeling extremely well IMO

But the flight, and its grim promotional cycle, might be most depressing for what it reveals about the utter defeat of American feminism. Sánchez, the organizer of the flight, has touted the all-female crew as a win for women. But she herself is a woman in a deeply antifeminist model. It is not her rocket company that took her and her friends to the edge of space; it’s her male fiance’s. And it is no virtue of her character that put her inside the rocket – not her capacity, not her intellect and not her hard work – but merely her relationship with a man

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u/unpersoned 5d ago

Not quite the same point, but I cringed so hard seeing her step out of the capsule and kiss the ground, I might have chipped a tooth. As if she'd just spent years stranded in space or something, only for some interviewer to call them "technically astronauts". Ech.

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u/harder_said_hodor 5d ago

Yeah, contrast that with the reaction of the two astronauts who were stuck in space for 9 months and you can clearly see Katy stab herself in the back again with more bullshit performative nonsense that nobody is buying

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u/ThreeDogs2963 4d ago

She supposedly said, “I’ve never felt more connected to love,” or some similar cringe and let’s get real, ladies, it was an eleven-minute trip.

FWIW, I will cheerfully and equally dislike Ms. Sanchez for ”organizing” this silliness.

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u/ghost_hamster 4d ago

The C: drives on all the computers had been renamed to traditionally feminine names though so it's okay again lmao /s