The depressing reality of that ‘historic’ all-female Blue Origin spaceflight

In America, while a rising number of women are dying because doctors refuse to treat their miscarriages or are arrested for having them, where millions of women may lose hard-won voting rights while others are eradicated from public life and historical record because of their gender, six rich women did what rich people do best in perilous times: blissfully abscond to the safety of their own private estates or islands or yachts — or, in this case, spaceship — and flaunt their wealth to the masses.

On Monday morning, six mostly rich and/or famous women boarded a rocket and traveled on billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin New Shepard Rocket to the Kármán line — the boundary separating Earth’s atmosphere and space — and remained in this space briefly, for a journey that lasted a total of approximately 11 minutes.