A bunch of ladies celebrated ‘female empowerment’ today by putting on sexy, fake astronaut suits and going up into (sort of) outer space for 11 minutes through all of the engineering, mathematical, and physics wizardry of a bunch of people who didn’t get any credit and were behind some control room panel somewhere.
Understanding ‘Empowerment’
I guess we are supposed to believe that Gayle King, or Katy Perry, or Lauren Sánchez is an astronaut now, and we are supposed to be celebrating them somehow? It is supposed to be empowering because not enough women have gone into space? What we mean by that is not enough women are astronauts. We don’t mean please put Gayle King in yet another opportunity for her to try to act like a star while she is next to Oprah Winfrey, who was also there in Van Horn, Texas, to watch the Blue Origin launch.
I don’t feel empowered. If there had been six female astronauts going up, then, yes, okay. But what did these women do? The one gal is engaged to a billionaire, and these are a bunch of celebrities she wanted to befriend. And of course, Lauren Sánchez’s breasts were out in her little fake astronaut outfit because what is a day if we don’t get to see the girls? It is not as offensive as showing them at the presidential inauguration, but I think it is a little off message.
Katy Perry was quoted as saying, “We’re putting the ‘ass’ in astronauts.” It is so cringy. Don’t show your boobs. Don’t talk about your ass. Don’t get your specially made space suit so that we can make sure to see all your curves as you go to outer space. Is that what it is to be a woman? Just show off as much sex appeal, ass, and boob as you can? I didn’t catch that page in the female handbook.
Breaking Barriers?
Remember when they dropped the movie Hidden Figures years ago about women who were behind-the-scenes at NASA and contributed to the space program? It was a great movie, and that I get. What did these women do? One is sleeping with the billionaire who created this program and is jetting people into outer space for 10 minutes. They had nothing to do with any of the engineering. Basically, they are just looking for famous faces who could draw attention to Jeff Bezos.
And then these women come back to earth after being gone for the length of basically your average YouTube video and they’re like, ‘Everything has changed.’ These women got out of the rocket – which you could say looks like an igloo if you wanted to be charitable, but, to me, looks like a breast – and were kissing the ground as though they had returned from Nam. Sánchez’s first interview back on solid ground were similarly profound:
SANCHEZ: Earth looked so– it was so quiet. It was just quiet, and um–
REPORTER: Is it what you expected?
SANCHEZ: No. No.
REPORTER: Better?
SANCHEZ: Yeah, I don’t think you can describe it um cause, you know, what I was saying was um it was um quiet but then also really alive. And you look at it and you’re like, we’re all in this together.
These profundities! But I suppose we are to celebrate her crossing new barriers for women, meaning boinking a billionaire and getting a free ticket to space for 11 minutes.
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