Saturday, 19 April 2025

Model Emily Ratajkowski Mocks All-Female Space Ride: ‘Not An Accomplishment’


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Model Emily Ratajkowski is still bashing the all-female space crew that included celebrities who have been dominating the headlines after their 11-minute mission to space.

Pop singer Katy Perry, CBS anchor Gayle King, and Jeff Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sánchez were three of the women who flew to the edge of space on the Amazon founder’s Blue Origin spacecraft. Their flight is being touted as historic and important by many major outlets, but critics claim it’s nothing but average space tourism, which has been going on for decades. 

Ratajkowski made her feelings known during a TikTok posted Monday. 

“That space mission this morning, that’s end-time sh**. Like, this is beyond parody,” she said. “Saying that you care about Mother Earth, and it’s about Mother Earth, and going up in a spaceship that is built and paid for by a company that’s single-handedly destroying the planet? Look at the state of the world, and think about how many resources went into putting these women into space, and for what? For what, what was the marketing there? And then to try to make it like … I’m disgusted. Literally, I’m disgusted.”

The 33-year-old celebrity followed up with another social media video on Tuesday. “I think that this space mission is confusing to people because seeing women and people of color in spaces like science and politics that have not previously included them feels and looks like, really looks like — optically looks like — progress,” Ratajkowski, who identifies herself as a feminist, said. 

She continued, “But the truth is that having a man who has gained his power and become a part of the one percent purely through exploitation and greed deciding to take his fiancée and a few other famous women to space for space tourism is not progress.”

“It just speaks to the fact that we are absolutely living in an oligarchy, where there is a very small group of people who are interested in going to space for the sake of getting a new lease on life while the rest of the population — most people on Planet Earth — are worried about paying rent, or, you know, having dinner for their kids,” the model concluded.

She’s not the only one to question why so many are making such a big deal about the Blue Origin flight. Actress Olivia Munn said as much on an episode of “Today with Jenna and Friends.”

“What’s the point? Is it historic that you guys are going on a ride? I think it’s a bit gluttonous,” Munn said. “Space exploration was to further our knowledge and to help mankind. What are they gonna do up there that has made it better for us down here?”


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