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After their return from one 11-minute trip to space Found at the beginning of this month Katy Perry at the center of a wave of criticism. The counter reaction reached such a point that even Wendy’s fast food chain asked publicly: “Can we send it back?” Later they claimed to respect the singer. However, leaned an apology away. If it consoles Perry: the singer-songwriter Lily Allen In fact, she regrets her own role that you have to do with this Hunted.
Lily Allen criticizes and apologizes later for their statements
In her podcast “Miss me?” criticized Lily Allen the passengers of the Blue Origin-Fleens for the fact that they had portrayed him as a “a kind of feminist action”. On board the capsule were Katy Perry, Gayle King, the journalist (and fiancee from Jeff Bezos) Lauren Sánchez, the activist for victims of sexual violence and Nobel Prize candidate Amanda Nguyễn, the film producer and documentary filmmaker Kerianne Flynn and the former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe.
“The only congratulating is the rocket scientist Aisha Bowe. There is also a civil rights activist, Amanda Nguyễn,” said Lily Allen.
Lily Allen’s self -criticism: admission of internalized misogyny
But while the other women could have shared the guilt, Lily Allen felt that Katy Perry had unfairly picked them out. ‘I actually want to apologize for being common to Katy Perry last week,’ she said in a recent podcast episode. “There was actually no reason to bring their name into play. That was my own internalized misogyny. I thought a lot about it. And it was just completely unnecessary to tackle it.”
Criticism of the timing: luxury flight during economic uncertainty
Lily Allen sticks to her criticism. This also contains points that were taken up in many reviews of the journey from the public and other celebrities. “We are about to recession. People fight damn hard to make ends meet and bring food to the table,” she said. She criticized the ‘terrible time’ of the media -effective journey. “I mean what the hell is supposed to do? But seriously: what? Why? What for?”
Public apology: “It was unnecessary and hurtful”
As a result, Lily admits that Katy Perry did not hover up there alone. “I do not agree to what you did. But she wasn’t the only one who did it. It was perhaps the most famous and the one who splits the most,” said Allen. “I don’t know, something in me made me choose it as a person. Well, at least I’m sorry. I would have been hurt if I had been in your place and someone from my industry had used me and my name.”
Gayle King defends space flight against misogynistic criticism
King was the first woman in the group publicly The criticism reacted. And also appealed to a misogynic aspect. “You never see a man, a male astronaut who flies into space. And then everyone says: ‘Oh, he did a jaunt,’ said the television journalist. “It is always referred to as a flight or a trip. So I find that a little disrespectful towards the mission and work of Blue Origin.”
The debate about meaning and symbolism of space missions
The trip was celebrated as a feminist milestone, since it was the first purely female spatial flight since 1963 when the cosmonaut Valentina Tereschkowa was the first woman to flew into space. “My question is: Have you ever been to space?” Asked King. “Flies into space or visit Blue Origin. Take a look at what you are doing there. And then comes back and says: ‘It’s terrible.'”