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The first lipstick in space!

It's feminism, Jeff Bezos style. Plus: Meghan McCain slut-shames a 'White Lotus' character, a Beatles biopic starring 'the internet's boyfriends,' Elon needs a DNA test, and more in the roundup.

Tracy Clark-Flory

Apr 6

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Happy Sunday!

I’m off this week for Spring Break, but I’ll be back to normal next week. In the meantime, I leave you with this link roundup. We’ve got “stealth trans hate” on White Lotus, a woman charged with a felony for sticking chewing gum on a Tesla, and Katy Perry putting “the ‘ass’ in astronaut,” but perhaps not in the way she imagines.

To the links…

I really wish this ELLE article, accompanied by a glamorous photoshoot, on the first-ever all-women space flight on Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin was a parody, but alas. There are six women joining this “historic” mission: Katy Perry, Lauren Sánchez (married to Bezos and recently a V.I.P. at Trump’s inauguration), Gayle King, Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyen, and Kerianne Flynn.

It’s a publicity stunt—and a seeming attempt at women-friendly image rehabilitation—that relies on the most elementary ideas about feminism, womanhood, and women’s progress. Consider these choice quotes:...