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Originally Posted by RedinTexas
It was no big deal that they were doing it. Hell, I'd do it too if offered the chance. The problem is how they portrayed themselves. If they had just portrayed themselves as adventurers and enjoying the experience, most of us wouldn't have cared, but they had to make themselves out to be daring heroes and worthy of acclaim. I think that's the biggest reason that most people are deriding their idiocy.
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It's true, but it's also been blown way out of proportion. They said that they thought it was cool to have the first all-women trip to space (factually true) and that they hoped it might be inspiring to young girls (objectively not a bad thing unless you actually believe young girls should be training on how to make sandwiches).
Yes, they referred to themselves as the "crew," but that's been the case for all of these launches. Hell, some of the early ones were calling the crew "astronauts," and I don't believe they've done that.
And are there more impressive actions someone could take to inspire young girls? Obviously. But you can't tell me that there isn't at least one young Katy Perry fan out there who might watch the next launch to the ISS because they thought seeing a rocket go to space, even briefly, was neat.
Did the media make a big deal out of it? Well, yeah, that's what media does in the 21st century. I would argue that the backlash in some forms of media has been just as over-the-top as the initial push on the "inspiration" angle, though.