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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.

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."
  
  Noted. Thanks.

Poor Katy. The roasting is endless even though it's the piece of shit Bezos who actually deserves it.
- 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! 😂
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- She never called herself an astronaut. Fuck the rich and all but people here are just using this to excuse their misogyny.

Shame DOGE did not calculate the fuel load.

Like, three minutes in one go? Not spread out over your lifetime?

can't relate
- One minute is acceptable too.
  As are solo flights.
  
  One minute?! Jesus, you must run marathons with that stamina!

did she call herself an astronaut or something?
edit: apparently not, people don't like Katy Perry/women and are making things up to get angry about.
- Gail King did
  Edit: Gayle*
  
  Gail King is the embodiment of everything I hate about liberals.
- Misogyny is insane.
- Maybe it's that. But I say fuck all space tourists because of the environmental impact and the zero gain for humanity. It's up there with owning a million yachts.
- Rage>facts.... Something something...boobs... Something something
- Here's a good video about it
  
  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.
- afaik all the KP hate over this is misogyny in action.
  
  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)
  
  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.
  
  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.

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.

She acted how a crash test dummy would if there were no crash.
Edit "like" to "how".

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?
  
  This is news to me! Thank you

Where are alien abductions when you need them?

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."

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.

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.