It’s been three lengthy days since Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin flew an all-women crew into area for 11 minutes — main passenger Katy Perry to dramatically kiss the bottom after she touched down, like a freshly launched hostage.
There’s been loads of information to drown out the story of this ridiculous, art-directed launch that got here full with the ladies in excellent hair and make-up plus curve-hugging fembot flight fits customized by Monse.
And but, the general public backlash over mission tone deaf remains to be going, unabated — proving that America’s once-slobbering love affair with self severe A-list celeb tradition is totally dunzo.
The newest? Perry’s emotions have been harm after fast-food big Wendy’s tweeted “Can we send her back” in response to information that the “Firework” singer had returned from area. “Where’s the beef?” certainly.
Possibly Perry would have accepted that from Burger King, however a pigtailed ginger? Me thinks not.
“This was a billion dollar brand using its public platform to publicly demean a woman,” a Perry supply complained.
I assumed area tourism was speculated to take the gravity out of issues. However Perry and Gayle King landed again on earth with their egos larger and bulkier than ever.
All the self-importance undertaking was choreographed and produced like a music video, with Perry clutching a setlist for her upcoming tour (thanks for the free promoting, Jeff Bezos!) as she floated across the New Shepard spacecraft.
Perry even serenaded her fellow vacationers — she calls them “astronaut girlie friends” — in flight.
“Katy sang ‘What a Wonderful World,’” stated King. “’Cause we’ve been asking her to sing all the time and she wouldn’t. Everyone said sing ‘Roar,’ sing “Firework,’ and she said, ‘It’s not about me. I wanted to talk about the world.’ Isn’t that nice?”
For the primary time within the historical past of flight, barf baggage have been wanted for spectators on the bottom.
No surprise this faux-feminist crew have been topic to mockery, as Gayle King famous, “from people I know, like and consider friends.”
Sure, for as soon as, the hearth got here from her inside her personal tent.
Emily Ratajkowski stated it was “beyond parody.”
“Saying that you care about Mother Earth and it’s about Mother Earth, and you’re going up in a spaceship that is built and paid for by a company that’s singlehandedly destroying the planet,” the mannequin shamed the group.
Olivia Munn referred to as it “gluttonous,” whereas Olivia Wilde reposted an image of Perry kissing the bottom and wrote, “Billion dollars bought some good memes I guess.”
Comic Amy Schumer ripped on the well-known crew members whereas pretending to even be a Blue Origin “astronaut.” Singer Lily Allen referred to as the entire thing “so out of touch.”
To her simpleton haters, King stated: “Have you been? Have you been?”
She additionally scolded folks for calling it a “ride.”
“Please don’t call it a ‘ride. We duplicated the same trajectory that Alan Shepard did back in the day, pretty much. No one called that a ‘ride,’” King huffed. “It was called a flight, it was called a journey. There was nothing frivolous about what we did.”
She stated she was “disappointed and very saddened” that us shallow idiots had missed the purpose: She and Perry have been altering the trajectory of womankind.
As King famous, what the flight “is doing to inspire other women and young girls, please don’t ignore that.”
Transfer over, Sally Journey.
To me, it wasn’t a difficulty that they went on this gazillion-dollar flight. We reside in a free nation with billionaires who can do with their cash what they please.
No, it was the bold-facers’ staggering self significance — as infinite because the universe.
King and Perry really anticipated to be obtained as heroes and lauded as trailblazing girl area explorers, the perfect factor to occur to woman energy for the reason that Spice Women.
When the 2 weren’t given a parade by the plenty, the folks they view as clapping monkeys, they have been confused. So that they lashed out — unwittingly feeding the backlash.
Perry insists they have been offering a blueprint for peace.
“I hope they can see the unity we modeled and replicate that,” she stated of Earthlings.
Mission completed. We have been all unified in our disgust for his or her neediness and narcissism.
