Blue Origin Flight Showcases Utter Defeat of US Feminism

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Opinion from The Guardian. There are some spectacles of US decadence and decline that almost seem too on the nose -- the sort of orgies of vulgar provocation or fantastic lack of self-awareness that exceed the limits of parody, so that if they were in a novel, you'd think the writer was laying it on a little thick. Among these is the all-female flight by Blue Origin, the Jeff Bezos-owned rocket tourism company ...

Posted by Dbt2 at 07:30 PM | 29 COMMENTS | permalink

FTA: "The trip leaned on a vision of women's empowerment that is light on substance and heavy on a childlike, girlish silliness."

Comments

What the hell is a woman?

#1 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-04-15 11:43 PM

Bezos's Amazon donated $1m to Trump's most recent inauguration, and he intervened during the 2024 election to stop the Washington Post, the newspaper he owns, from endorsing Kamala Harris; the Trump administration, for its part, just awarded Blue Origin a contract worth more than $2bn.

That's a decent ROI.

#2 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-04-16 12:09 AM

"What the hell is a woman?"

One thing is for certain:

You will never know.

#3 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-04-16 10:30 AM

... "The trip leaned on a vision of women's empowerment that is light on substance and heavy on a childlike, girlish silliness." ...

In many respects I agree with that assessment.

The trip looked like a PR press release, nothing more, nothing less.

The women were passengers, relegated to a non-important position for the flight.

Of course, their presence may have been important to Mr Bezos' who collected their fares. But beyond that ....?

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-16 08:15 PM

"What the hell is a woman?"

The difference between us is that, while you ridicule my belief that it's up to every individual to decide their gender,
Your authoritarian answer to "What is a woman?" is that it's for The State to decide everyone's gender.

I believe in personal freedom.
You believe in crushing personal freedom with Statism.

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-16 08:18 PM

The women were passengers, relegated to a non-important position for the flight.

At least one of them is actually a pilot. Not that flying skills have any value on things like this.

#6 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-04-16 08:24 PM

@#6 ... Not that flying skills have any value on things like this. ...

Agreed.

imo, it was a photo-op, with money going to Mr Bezos.

A free advertisement for such commercial excursions.

Nothing more, nothing less.

#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-16 08:38 PM

A free advertisement for such commercial excursions.

Pretty much. At least it didn't blow up.

#8 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-04-16 09:02 PM

Bet Muskrat was pissed. Good.

#9 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-04-17 12:17 AM

Pretty much. At least it didn't blow up.
#8 | POSTED BY REDIAL

This is why these women deserve more respect than anyone here has given them.

To paraphrase Chuck Yeager, those women knew it might blow up. Higher risk of it blowing up, or some other malfunction, than going on an airplane.
They sat at the top end of a rocket and went to space. The girlz did alright.

I don't care if they just sat there, they showed more bravery than anything anyone on this board has ever done, or will ever do.

#10 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-04-17 12:30 AM

I believe in personal freedom.

Choosing your gender isn't personal freedom.

These people you're talking about are making these decisions, not because of some internal drive, or free will but through undue external influence, and in some cases restraint.

This is why so many hollywood actors/actresses have tran gender children, its hip and cool. Its not some internal "feeling" its actually external influence guiding their "choice".
www.them.us

I mean if the argument is toys can influence gender, I don't see why parents can't, and in most cases have more influence than toys.

So good luck thinking its about personal freedom, I am sure it makes you feel good, and superior about yourself; Just like supporting children immigrants working as slaves.

#11 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-04-17 12:40 AM

Pretty sure

A. You don't have kids
B. You've never actually kissed a woman
C. You're not now nor have ever been "Chinese"
D. Are just a boring sock puppet of a drooling imbecile

#12 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-04-17 03:29 AM

The 10-minute trip was a bs pr stunt promoting amusement rides and attempting to clean up Jeff Bezos's wretched reputation, zip to do with feminism.

#13 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-04-17 08:32 AM

Did this flight already happen? I was looking forward to them being stranded in space... all alone... with each other.

#14 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-04-17 12:09 PM

The "edge of space" is a misnomer/false advertising. The edge of the Earth's atmosphere is not the edge of "space".

#15 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-04-17 12:10 PM

What the hell is a woman?

#1 | Posted by Bluewaffles

At mar a lago, they're the humans filled with silicone and hyaluronic acid.

#16 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-04-17 12:59 PM

Choosing your gender isn't personal freedom.

These people you're talking about are making these decisions, not because of some internal drive, or free will but through undue external influence, and in some cases restraint.
#11 | Posted by oneironaut

So elon musk can have his bald head surgically made into a hairy head, but someone else can't have their penis made into a vagina?

#17 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-04-17 01:00 PM

I don't care if they just sat there, they showed more bravery than anything anyone on this board has ever done, or will ever do.

#10 | Posted by oneironaut

Historically, speaking out against fascist dictators can be much riskier than a thrill ride on a rocket.

#18 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-04-17 01:01 PM

Bezos has reduced space flight to a very expensive amusement park ride.

#19 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-04-17 01:30 PM

#17 who said they couldn't... but they'd still be a biological dude and not a woman. They could call himself a trans woman, and I would refer to them way out of respect.

#20 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2025-04-17 05:29 PM

#17 who said they couldn't... but they'd still be a biological dude and not a woman. They could call himself a trans woman, and I would refer to them way out of respect.

#20 | Posted by kwrx25

So that would make elon a bald man and not a guy with hair.

#21 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-04-17 06:17 PM

Like EVERYTHING Democrat, it was Fake and/or Gay.

#22 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-04-17 07:43 PM

Like EVERYTHING Democrat, it was Fake and/or Gay.

#22 | Posted by ScottS

Democrat? You realize Bezos just paid a 47 million dollar bribe to trump's WIFE, and told his newspapers not to criticize the worst president in history right?

#23 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-04-18 12:12 PM

they showed more bravery than anything anyone on this board has ever done, or will ever do.
#10 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

Your limpwristed projection is showing, moron.

#24 | Posted by jpw at 2025-04-18 02:26 PM

So elon musk can have his bald head surgically made into a hairy head, but someone else can't have their penis made into a vagina?

#17 | Posted by SpeakSoftly

They still would not be able to say they are a woman, just like Elon couldn't say that's his hair..

#25 | Posted by boaz at 2025-04-18 02:30 PM

They still would not be able to say they are a woman, just like Elon couldn't say that's his hair..

#25 | Posted by boaz

But it is his hair. It's his hair that has been chemically enhanced and surgically relocated.

So is he a bald man?

#26 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-04-18 02:35 PM

"Choosing your gender isn't personal freedom."

There's only one alternative to personal freedom:
Gender is how you want the state to control people!

#27 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-18 02:48 PM

#10

Chuck Yeager is dead, Jackhole. But I'd take the ride if you're buying.

#28 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-04-18 06:44 PM

@#15 ... The "edge of space" is a misnomer/false advertising. The edge of the Earth's atmosphere is not the edge of "space". ...

The Karman Line: Where space begins
www.astronomy.com

... Earth ends and outer space starts at the Krmn line, some 62 miles (100 kilometers) above the planet's surface. ...

Blue Origin crew safely back on Earth after all-female space flight
www.bbc.com

... The flight lasted around 11 minutes and took the six women more than 100km (62 miles) above Earth, crossing the internationally recognised boundary of space and giving them a few moments of weightlessness. ...

#29 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-18 06:52 PM

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