Why is everyone saying “she did not call herself an astronaut” when the meme never states that?
In interviews she was called an astronaut and that is the point this meme is making. One of the other women (Gale something) does call herself an astronaut, so theres that.
This meme is about the out of touch media coverage around the event, not what Katy did not even say.
With that said, I understand the emotional reactions given what is happening in America. Women that worked in NASA are being erased from history at the same time this stunt happens, its infuriating.
Like, three minutes in one go? Not spread out over your lifetime?
Nobody can dictate what an astronaut is and isn’t. The FAA and NASA specifically wanted it to be this way so culture wars and shit posts like this wouldn’t happen. 😮💨 Idk why people forget that.
Do you get tired of being like this?
Do you get something from asking this open ended unanswerable question? Are you intending to invoke some sort of internal dialog within me? Or do you mean to imply that there’s inherently some value in this senseless article and argument that is so true that both I and the very inventors of the term and field of science are both wrong for acknowledging the senselessness of gate keeping in this way? Your question only spawns more, none of them particularly worth asking but I do find occasionally myself with an abundance of wasteable time whilst I oversee progress bars.
I don’t recall Perry claiming she was an astronaut.
This stunt, however, is a colossal tone-deaf, obscenely expensive, wasteful PR stunt while millions of people are terrified about their economic futures. That money could have gone to much better use.
The person who interviewed her after getting back to earth said she was an astronaut now… teo very tone deaf dumb morons who played banter back and forth… Katy didnt correct the woman and was enjoying being akin to an astronaut title and thats why she is being dragged… And she deserves it.
If that’s what happened then I don’t think saying she called herself an astronaut is fair, but I also don’t believe she or Gale deserve any grace after this ordeal. “Have you been to space? Go to space.”
Go read the last part of my comment again slowly… Its the fact that Katy accepted the title until the backlash in the midst of the DEI fiasco and real female astronauts who had their names removed from public views a day before
Go read the part where I said I don’t believe she deserves any grace again slowly.
Noted. Thanks.
An upvote isn’t enough, this is fucking funny.
If an upvote isnt enough, you can use lemmysilver (with ! at the start)
Wait what? How do I do that?
!LemmySilver
Shame DOGE did not calculate the fuel load.
Yes, going to space for even one minute makes you an astronaut. Maybe not a very good astronaut, but one nevertheless.
Only in the sense that taking an ocean cruise makes you a sailor. She’s not an astronaut, she’s a tourist.
can’t relate
One minute is acceptable too.
As are solo flights.
One minute?! Jesus, you must run marathons with that stamina!
It’s hard to get my socks off.
To be fair, she never claimed to be an astronaut.
Also, the Jeff-Dildo isn’t capable of reaching the karman line, so she wasn’t in space either.
What makes you say that?
I’m in no way here to defend blue orgin, but the capsule does apogee “just above 100km”. It’s pretty clear getting above the karman line was their main goal.
If we’re gonna throw shade we gotta be accurate. Lets make fun of them for being suborbital and for making the most phallic launch vehicle ever.
In that case they seem to have actually upped their game because for a pretty long time they weren’t able to.
But yes, I’m all in favor of throwing shade, so we can if course make fun of the phallic shape. And in my book, astronauts have been in orbit.
Poor Katy. The roasting is endless even though it’s the piece of shit Bezos who actually deserves it.
I don’t really follow celebrity news, but I think the last time I heard about her she was praising Musk and her cybertruck. It seems she has been open about whose side she is on for a while now.
Bezos deserves it for ripping billions of dollars out of the public space program so that he can indulge in a fantasy of privatized space flight.
Katy deserves a bit of flak for playing along to boost her fading brand.
They both suck.
But she’s trying to make women in space glam again! 😂
DOGE Staffer here. This is DEI and you have to delete it.
Her music isn’t even that bad. Its a pineapple-on-pizza thing.
That eye of the tiger or whatever song was straight trash though.
Roar, iirc.
In my opinion it was decent, but extremely overrated/overplayed.
Bezos deserves most of it, but I think there’s more than just misogyny that has lead to this particular flight’s passengers receiving a lot more criticism than Shatner did. And it’s that Shatner was visibly moved by his experience and you could tell that he didn’t feel good about Bezos interrupting his attempts to share that, so Bezos could use him as a pawn.
The ladies on this flight seem to have been chosen and instructed specifically to give the most vapid shallow responses possible. And upon returning, that’s precisely what they delivered.
I think Perry is just vapid and shallow.
She never called herself an astronaut. Fuck the rich and all but people here are just using this to excuse their misogyny.
She acted how a crash test dummy would if there were no crash.
Edit “like” to “how”.
Then I’m a townist
wow, the rare double-cringe!
it wasn’t bad enough that she went to “space” - we also get to see edgy tate memes, too!
viva 2025!
Isn’t that rather self deprecating humor than misogynistic? The joke is essentially “if going to space for three minutes makes you an astronaut then getting it on with a woman for a solid three minutes makes me an expert on their anatomy”.
yeah, you’re right.
“and if my grandma had wheels, she’d be a fucking bicycle.”
