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I cannot even “yes and” this post.
Wait. Wait.
“Yes, and … I hate it. The whole thing.” Thnx
As a female physics teacher I look to find role models for the girls I teach we need girls in the field… this just does the opposite. Proves to them the wealthy get the glory not the wonderful women that contributed to designing the craft, aiding it’s navigation and all the other amazing things that they have done for years.
agree. I’d much rather see an actual female astronaut vs a bunch of rich women. But I guess women have the right to be equally shitty as men which is… better than nothing I guess?
Shouldn’t we be teaching kids the truth? And if we don’t like the current state of things then we need to change it for them. Adults can change the job market for the children they’re preparing, but somehow we expect them to do both?
@queentrinicorn9441 Yes of course! They already know the truth, we have to convince them that study is worth it. For the kids I teach it’s the best chance they have of getting out of the borderline poverty they are in. They will probably never be rich as most of that is down to who their parents are but they may make enough to not need to work 2/3 jobs or live of the ever decreasing welfare (I’m in the uk) and not need to worry about being evicted or finding a meal. Celebrating STEM with real achievement over the privilege of wealth, that’s what the men got to see when we first sent men to space, it would be good for the girls to see it too. I will just wait for the day the ISS is full of women- that requires too much training currently so it is those with STEM backgrounds that get up there.
Emily’s trip should have gotten more attention. Also aspirational marketing from blue origin, but in a less vanity vomit way: https://youtu.be/PenTzO3t2T8?si=yTdpgfW4332DIc-I
@sammyvermeulen2786 thank you, for reminding me- she is fantastic and that vlog is amazing.
Sent women I haven;t cared about since the early 2000s. Barely even updated the girlbosses
It’s giving… confused energy. Like the vibe is ‘Pinterest inspo board with no direction.’ I’m not saying it’s bad, but I am saying it’s aggressively mid with a side of ‘why tho?’
I remember being so underwhelmed by the announcement. We are sending Katy Perry and others for the star name recognition instead of the qualifications to be there? Then that means anyone could go up! Why not have some of the women who worked on the craft be able to go? Why not have some STEM school girls go? Its just telling of how you need a certain amount of money instead of relevant ability to do things in this country.
NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe makes sense. Maybe also civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen and film producer Kerianne Flynn if you squint and try to extend it to a non-STEM, humanities type area as they both focused on women’s rights and gender equality issues. Nothing to do with space flight or science so i personally wouldn’t, but if their goal is to make this about women’s rights and empowerment despite everything else going on in this country, they would fit the mission’s bill sure. But then Katy Perry, Gayle King, and Lauren Sánchez (Jeff Bezos’s fiancee)? Are you kidding me?
I was thinking the same thing. The Space Race is so ingrained in Americana, that it makes sense to have this project as collectivist representation- that a collective of STEM professionals made this possible. When I saw the video, I honestly thought it was AI generated because the “vibe” was “we’re the hot girls in da club and it’s ‘08.” Whenever NASA provides footage of their projects, the feel is “brave, courageous, sober.”
In the middle of the argument against DEI. Makes your head hurt. They can be hypocrites right in your face but nobody will check them
@@EbonyPenmarks the money that could have gone to actual space missions or research being used for an expensive publicity stunt… It just hurts to watch Katy Perry kiss the ground in “gratitude” while we are removing funding from the EPA, NASA, and women’s rights and health organizations.
It’s not even space-space. It’s low orbit. 107km up, while the ISS orbits at 400km. Calling it “space” is just techbro overexaggeration similar to “full self driving”
And they had custom suits made by a high end fashion designer that look more like scuba suits. So just another celebrity stunt
Whoopty-do. A bunch of rich people taking a multi-million dollar joy ride. How much medical debt could that trip have eliminated? How many American children could it have fed?
As a gen Z male it’s giving housing bubble meets buzzfeed era. The economy is so unstable and nowhere is hiring Gen Z workers even in stem but there are so many nonsense jobs and the prices of houses are 2-3 times what they should be. It’s just crazy seeing office siren girl talk about how she lost a 200k a year job when so many young people my age in critical industries can’t find jobs paying $15 an hour 🤦♂️
Yeah. It’s been demotivating to even try to look for a job knowing that there’s a 99% chance my application isn’t even getting looked at, much less by a human being. It’s even worse since I don’t have experience.
@@namingisdifficult408there’s no magic trick for it. But my uni said to use jobscan to optimize your resume so it gets to a real person, and reach 500 connections on LinkedIn that you actually have common career goals or interests with since over 500 MASSIVELY boosts you in LinkedIns algorithm.
Even if you have experience, it isn’t any better. I’m a Gen-X with 30+ years experience in a variety of technical fields, and I can’t even land an entry level dishwashing job in a kitchen.
I wasn’t even aware of this story until it was basically over and most of what I saw in reference to it were memes clowning Katy Perry. I think that says where we’re all at with this.
Im sorry to get distracted but i love how well those frames fit and suit you
For those privileged women saying how empowered they felt being on a rocket just scream pathetic.
It’s giving pre-2008 and pre-third reich, because all of the social, economic, and political are literally the same
This whole endeavor is rife with a nauseating extreme privilege vibe. I don’t want one young girl to aspire to whatever this was. It’s gross. Maybe Jeff Bezos could pay his workers and taxes and stand up for democracy.
2016 girlboss vibes is so spot on🎯😂😂
It’s giving me nostalgia for when JFk saif we would go to the moon not because it was easy but because it was hard… While he really wanted to go to the moon to get congress to fund space weapon development. This is all just smoke and mirrors for something else.
I was working with dxc technology as senior analyst but got laid off last year still looking for job and its heart breaking to see that highly educated ans skilled people can’t find job ,on the other hand rich people pulling this nonsense
this is ridiculous! i’m glad she has the resources to get her through this. other people sadly don’t 😢
It really grinds my gears that because of these people with too much money and the way they make a big thing out of their “trip”, this is what more and more people think of when they hear space travel. Not awe-inspiring testaments what humanity can achhieve when hundreds of the smartest scientists and engineers work together, but vanity projects for the mega rich. On top of all the waste and inequality, they’re destroying the font of inspiration that was inherent in space travel. How many scientists were inspired to join their field by seeing us walk on the moon? And how many will it be from watching obscenely wealthy people enter low orbit and do nothing of significance, being there not because they worked for it but because they paid for it?
It reminded me instantly of that poem, “whitey on the moon”
It’s pretty much Gil Scott Heron’s entire body of work, not just “Whitey On The Moon”
I think that’s the thing that pisses me off the most. They really tried to slap “feminism” on this mess.