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\n Where\u2019s the beef? In space, girl!
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It\u2019s almost the end of the week, and we\u2019re still dealing with fallout from the girlboss Blue Origin rocket trip<\/a> with new little dramas coming out of it like so much space debris. After Gayle King responded to critics of the expensive stunt with a new spin on \u201cLet them eat cake\u201d<\/a> for the space age, Wendy\u2019s (the burger restaurant) is now picking a fight with King\u2019s fellow \u201castronaut\u201d Katy Perry (the \u201cBon App\u00e9tit\u201d singer).<\/p>\n What does a fast-food chain have to do with an 11-minute all-female mission to space? Well. On April 14, Pop Crave dutifully tweeted the news \u201cKaty Perry has returned from space,\u201d and Wendy waded her nosy ass into the replies, posting from the corporate social-media account, \u201cCan we send her back.\u201d This out-of-pocket response was treated the way brand tweets<\/a> should be, which is to say for the most part politely ignored, until April 17, when \u201ca source close to the situation\u201d brought the story to People<\/a>, telling the magazine that \u201cthis wasn\u2019t harmless banter, this was a billion-dollar brand using its platform to publicly demean a woman.\u201d<\/p>\n Wendy\u2019s issues new statement to PEOPLE after asking for Katy Perry to be sent back to space:<\/p>\n “We always bring a little spice to our socials, but Wendy\u2019s has a ton of respect for Katy Perry and her out-of-this-world-talent.\u201d pic.twitter.com\/6ReFwpxL1Z<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Pop Crave (@PopCrave) April 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n This \u201csource close to the situation\u201d could have bit their tongue and held their breath<\/a>, scared to rock the boat and make a mess, but nevertheless they persisted and noted that \u201cthis kind of behavior contributes to a culture where women are punished for standing out or a woman daring to do something different is a target.\u201d Already brushing off the dust, they continued: \u201cTelling a woman that she should be \u2018sent back\u2019 is shameful bullying and reflects a troubling willingness to tear down in today\u2019s society \u2026 What\u2019s worse is that the face of Wendy\u2019s is a woman, which makes this decision not just hypocritical but painfully ironic.\u201d<\/p>\n Ma\u2019am, this is, quite literally, a Wendy\u2019s. It doesn\u2019t have to be culture-war fodder about two beautiful queens representing separate multibillion-dollar corporate interests tearing each other down! It can just be a silly tweet. I\u2019m just saying that if I had the opportunity to literally go to outer space wearing extensions and a full beat and use it as an opportunity to release the set list for my upcoming world tour, I wouldn\u2019t have a \u201csource close to the situation\u201d paint me as a marginalized victim of online-burger crime. Still, the chain issued a sort-of apology to People, saying, \u201cWe always bring a little spice to our socials, but Wendy\u2019s has a ton of respect for Katy Perry and her out-of-this-world talent.\u201d<\/p>\n Why does Wendy\u2019s have such high-sodium (a.k.a. salty) takes on Perry? The most likely answer is that the account is run by a member of a competing stan community, but my theory is that the Blue Origin mission got in the way of Wendy\u2019s own major technological launch on Monday, April 14: Frostys with flavor swirls in them<\/a>.<\/p>\n Perry has yet to give a statement of her own, but clearly there is only one way this beef will ever get squared away<\/a>: Reboot the Cold War space race but this time with girls, like 2016\u2019s Ghostbusters. Blue Origin critics like Olivia Munn<\/a> and Wendy from Wendy\u2019s must go to space! It\u2019s the only way.<\/p>\n Related<\/p>\n \n