Gayle King’s Feminist Double Standard

CBS host Gayle King responded to the backlash over the Blue Origin space flight on Tuesday and suggested the all-female crew was being held to a different standard than men who’ve been to space.

The journalist and talk show host was part of a historic flight on Monday that also carried Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos’ fiancée, Lauren Sánchez; pop star Katy Perry; film producer Kerianne Flynn; NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe; and civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen.

The rocket landed safely after roughly a 10-minute flight. The high-profile trip drew some criticism from those who questioned if the brief flight was a worthwhile use of resources.

King responded to the backlash in comments to Entertainment Tonight on Tuesday, where she compared the Blue Origin flight to the historic space flight taken by American astronaut Alan Shepard in 1961.

“Have you been?” King scolded critics.

“Please don’t call it a ‘ride,’” she added, claiming people don’t use this term when talking about men going into space.

“We duplicated the same trajectory that Alan Shepard did back in the day, pretty much. No one called that a ‘ride,'” King said. “It was called a flight, it was called a journey.”

“There was nothing frivolous about what we did,” she added. [from Fox News on 4-16-25[

She said that women aren’t being held to the same standard as men. Seriously? The Blue Origin flight was 10 minutes long. A 10 minute space flight was headline news in 1961. In 2025, it’s no big deal. It seems to me that these women ARE held to the same standard as men. A 10 minute space flight with all men in 2025, in fact, would not have been news at all.

The absence of logic and reason in the leftist mentality grows more stunning by the day. These people like Gayle King are lower than idiots.