{"id":89523,"date":"2025-04-16T04:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T09:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89523"},"modified":"2025-04-16T05:14:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T10:14:51","slug":"oversold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89523","title":{"rendered":"Oversold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Look &#8211; I&#8217;m all for women.\u00a0 My mom was one.\u00a0 So are my sister, daughter and daughter in law.\u00a0\u00a0 Go, women!<\/p>\n<p>But the trifle that is modern feminism has gone a little overboard with claiming &#8220;firsts for women&#8221;.\u00a0 One of my more glaring recent examples was the Saint Paul City Council, who are indeed seven women (or were until one left, and was tentatively replaced by a man), but aren&#8217;t really running the city because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89517\">they aren&#8217;t much of a council<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>But this week&#8217;s &#8220;Blue Horizon&#8221; flight seven prominent female space tourists had moved into a solid first place.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Among the tourists was pop start Katy Perry, who imbued the event with, er, immense gravitas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/KatyPerryTours\/status\/1911565517422198803\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Community notes for the win. <\/p>\n<p>I imagine going into space is something of a &#8220;high&#8221;, so I won&#8217;t make the inevitable &#8220;someone snuck some THC gummies onto the flight&#8221; joke, pinky swear&#8230;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Watch Katy Perry&#039;s reaction after landing from space trip\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1wxIph2HN8E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So, like David Strom, I don&#8217;t really care if people with cash and connections wants to pay for a trip across the Karman Line.\u00a0 The revenue will help advance private sector space flight.\u00a0 Yay free enterprise.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But&#8230;Astronaut?<\/p>\n<p>Perry&#8217;s only real training for the event was getting measured for her designer jumpsuit, before being shot to the edge of space as a passenger.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unlike <a href=\"_wp_link_placeholder\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">Valentina Tereshkova<\/a>, who went into space 62 years ago, after at least qualifying as a cosmonaut and pilot.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or Sally Ride, the first American woman in space. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or even Christa MacAuliffe, the teacher killed aboard <em>Challenger<\/em>, who at least went through some version of astronaut training, among the many other American women who&#8217;d qualified and been into space by that point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sorry to say, Perry was about as much an &#8220;astronaut&#8221; as Laika the Space Dog &#8211; although Perry at least <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laika\">survived her trip<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Glad we could settle that.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look &#8211; I&#8217;m all for women.\u00a0 My mom was one.\u00a0 So are my sister, daughter and daughter in law.\u00a0\u00a0 Go, women! 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