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Varyk: asks simple yes or no question

You: here's a 40 minute video explaining the whole story. It might answer your question, it might not.

a 40-minute video unrelated to my question is exceedingly unhelpful.

it's good you guys are learning about vulnerable minorities, but it's not news to everyone and not relevant everywhere.

Someone was HEAVILY inspired by Contapoints' videos.

If you have 41 minutes to spare, this rant from a theoretical physicist does a good job explaining why people react negatively to the publicity surrounding the space tourism launch.

https://youtu.be/0WtyGK7TdCs

A lot of it boils down to the fact that women have been instrumental in traditional space programs all along. Publicizing passengers on a tourism flight as if they are pushing boundaries is insulting to all the professionals who dedicated their careers to actually expanding boundaries. They aren't even the first all women crew as claimed. Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova flew a solo mission on Vostok 6 in 1963

The media messaging on the flight has been terrible and regressive. Complaining about that isn't misogynistic.

Contributions of many women scientists are being wiped from NASA's website and records due to the "purge of DEI" going on right now. I'm sure that there are women losing their jobs at NASA right now while it is being dismantled in favor of private companies.

It was an egregious expenditure of wealth that enriches a company belonging to Jeff fucking Bezos.

This launch was nothing groundbreaking. It didn't push any scientific or "hardware" boundaries or make any discoveries. No experiments were done. Not even launching a sattelite, sending resources to/from ISS or anything useful to humanity. It was purely done for the PR bit, nothing more.

To me, this all reads like the abysmally tone deaf celebrities singing on youtube and complaining about how hard it was for them during the start of covid lockdowns. Except now for space flight.

Actual hate may be an extreme reaction, but exhaustion (a feeling of "so what") and disgust I think is fair. And that's more than enough reason to enjoy a stupid joke like this, despite the fact that they did go through some months of training for this (making them astronauts).

Incredibly little of my feelings about this has anything to do with Katy Perry.

katy perry hate has come in waves:

• hating her music because it was unchallenging and consumable (there's other artists i'd hate for this long before her)
• hating her for standing up for rebecca black (this wave is pure misogyny)
• hating her because she broke up with russel brand (russel brand sucks, she should have never dated his garbage ass. i probably should have listed an item for she dated russel brand in the first place, but that wave is miniscule and insignificant)
• hating her because she cut her hair and she aged and that wasn't sexy for some people (this is as far as i can tell the largest and most misogynistic wave)
• hating her for going back to doctor luke to try to recapture the popularity she had earlier in her career when he was her producer (this is the tempo i'm on. dr luke is ke$ha's abuser and as far as i can tell is a serial predator)
• hating her because she's acting as propaganda for one of the technoligarchs in our fascist regime (rather fair, i'd say, tbh)

Sp you fell for it then? Capitalists doing capitalist things (marketing) and just because they all identified as women you can’t be critical of the obvious nonsense at play here? Grow up.

They did not reach space.

They did not pilot.

They went on a rollercoaster ride.

Remember how there have been actual all women-identifying NASA crews? That’s REAL progress in equality. Or were you not born yet?

Please don’t try to paint this as misogyny. Plenty of women are annoyed by this show of filth too

I'm sure there is plenty of misogyny, but she's also just a trash person in general. There is the Perry act that's getting put through because she was buying houses out from the elderly and then evicting them.

There’s no Aisha Bowe hate for a reason. She’s a rocket scientist for NASA. We ridiculed Bezos and his bros just as much.

oh, that's a bummer.

sure seems plausible.

the other comments here are nnnot great.