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asha's avatar

giggled sighed and giggled again. this piece encapsulates the rage i felt watching the girlbossificafion of a company which epitomises the declining state of the world. may bezos burn!

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Marion Teniade's avatar

Watching him faceplant outside the capsule was not enough, but it did make me snort

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Aurelie Chazal's avatar

It was a tiny bit of karma. We have to take what we get 😂

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D. F. Lovett's avatar

Eric Andre: Do you think Margaret Thatcher had girl power?

Mel B: Yes, of course!

Eric Andre: Do you think she effectively utilized girl power by funneling money to illegal paramilitary death squads in Northern Ireland?

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Marion Teniade's avatar

Mel B: 😶

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DigitalNAbi's avatar

I find this stunt so insulting to the real heroes in at NASA and the memory of the astronauts that lost their lives in the Challenger explosion.

My oldest child’s 3rd grade teacher was very close friends with Judith Resnik. Her life and achievements are celebrated every school day as students and staff walk into Resnik Community Learning Center in Judith’s hometown of Akron, Ohio. All these women deserve is to be shamed.

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Marion Teniade's avatar

I very much agree

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Aurelie Chazal's avatar

I couldn't believe they were only there for 11 minutes after all this fuss. Like I take coffee breaks longer than this. It's so dystopian but at least we got a few good memes out of it. Not much else you can do but laugh and relentlessly make fun of this bullshit at this point 😅

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G. Alex Janevski, PhD's avatar

One of the affirming things is seeing how many people have called this shallow stunt out for what it is. Even LinkedIn isn't buying it: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cassandra-steer_katy-perry-blasts-into-space-abc-listen-activity-7317759323269468160-k7jW?

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Marion Teniade's avatar

Damn, when you’ve lost LinkedIn on your performative stunt, you’ve truly lost

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Elle J's avatar

Why did they have to wear fancy get-ups for an 11 minute amusement park ride?

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Marion Teniade's avatar

Spared no expense!

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Angela's avatar

Kris Jenner gifted Sanchez a 7k purse for the event

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KJ Creegan's avatar

Ambulatory thumb - incredible. Loved reading this!

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Marion Teniade's avatar

Thank you so much!

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Erin H's avatar

“… then kissing the ground after a trip that Ms. Frizzle could do in a coma”

I appreciate you.

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Marion Teniade's avatar

🤣 the Frizzle hive is so up

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Angela's avatar

I miss Ms Frizzle. We didn’t know how good we had it.

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Alex Friedman's avatar

ambulant thumb awareness!!!

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Marion Teniade's avatar

More people need to be talking about this!

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MsSwayzeJr's avatar

POS I’ll never support any of their work from here on out and for life

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Carley Moore's avatar

Completely amazing! Every last sentence! Thank you!

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Marion Teniade's avatar

Thank YOU so much!

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Carley Moore's avatar

Ofc! Great writing! I especially loved the Miss Frizzle joke. But I loved it all.

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Camille's avatar

Gil Scott-Heron warned us about this decades ago. But the positive to this superfluous mission is getting to experience Katy Perry in that interview. I cackled.

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Marion Teniade's avatar

“I’ve always been interested in astrophysics annnnd astronomy annnd astrology…” it’s so close to “his confidant, his best friend, his silly rabbit” to me

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