Elon Musk has been pushing radical, proper wing conspiracies on Twitter since he purchased it, however he’s additionally endorsed convicted felon Donald Trump whereas nonetheless attempting to assert he’s a centrist. Elon helped push that “cats and canines are being eaten in Ohio!” lie that made Donald Trump look so deranged final evening through the debate.
So final evening after Taylor Swift endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz within the 2024 election and signed off with a dig at Trump working mate and awkward doughnut misogynist JD Vance calling herself a “childless cat girl,” Musk appeared compelled to supply his personal ideas.
“Advantageous Taylor … you win … I gives you a toddler and guard your cats with my life,” Elon tweeted at 12:46 AM.
Elon has been attempting to get Taylor’s consideration for some time and he or she has ignored him prefer it’s her full time job. It in all probability feels prefer it, anyway.
So when he tweets that he’ll “give her a toddler” he’s not providing something consensual. He’s providing to do one thing she has expressly made clear, so clear that Swifties have instructed him to depart her alone, she doesn’t need.
The girl can have nearly any man she desires. She doesn’t want a person for energy or cash. What would Elon supply? No, don’t reply that. Let’s not.
The responses to his tweet inform us concerning the intention, even when there are folks sheltered sufficient to not perceive the implied creepiness of it. One of many responses by a blue examine Trump supporter is, “Taylor Swift has 0 sexual power. No marvel why she will be able to’t hold a person for lengthy.”
How have you learnt you’re the chief of bizarre, creepy incel group?
When your followers attempt to console you to your supply to take sexual benefit of a lady who doesn’t need you’re met with the absurd concept {that a} attractive international pop star has no sexual power. Although to be truthful, this account’s different feedback are issues like (my “@” edit), “That might be a good way to kick off an introduction to an AA assembly. “My identify is Kroot, and Kamala’s ret@rdation made me hit the boxed wine. I’m now an alcoholic.”
That’s the stage of “humor” that worships Musk. It’s bizarre, right-wing, unhappy, loser power. The precise form of power that thinks an adjudicated rapist needs to be president.
There are actual world penalties to this type of perspective. Musk’s SpaceX paid a flight attendant $250,000 to settle a sexual misconduct accusation after he allegedly provided a her a horse for an intimate therapeutic massage.
After which in June of this 12 months, eight former SpaceX workers sued the corporate and its CEO Elon Musk, “alleging that Musk personally ordered their firing after they accused SpaceX of tolerating sexual harassment within the office”:
The lawsuit alleges that Musk “runs his firm at nighttime ages — treating ladies as sexual objects to be evaluated on their bra dimension, bombarding the office with lewd sexual banter, and providing the reprise to those that problem the ‘Animal Home’ atmosphere that in the event that they don’t prefer it they’ll search employment elsewhere.”
One plaintiff stated she complained to HR a couple of male colleague repeatedly citing sexual subjects to her, together with inviting her to a intercourse occasion. HR took no obvious motion and he was promoted.
One other plaintiff, engineer Rebekah Clark, stated within the lawsuit that she heard feedback about breasts at work after Musk made a sexually charged touch upon X. She raised her issues to SpaceX managers at a gathering in 2022 and was instructed “SpaceX is Elon and Elon is SpaceX,” in accordance with the lawsuit.
SpaceX denied all of those claims and a lady vouched for a way fantastic Musk is, which is form of a inform in terms of any sexual harassment go well with.
There’ll at all times be a lady who speaks up for the accused, and infrequently occasions, that lady was happy to obtain the identical remedy from a robust man and/or is resentful they weren’t the goal. Sure, sexual harassment and assault convey out the worst in patriarchy-aligned ladies. Stabbing different ladies within the again is a price they’ve embraced as a part of their perception system that solely those that are chosen by the patriarch win.
Ladies are sometimes deployed as cowl for males accused of sexual misconduct, as a result of the considering is, if one other lady thinks the accused is nice, then he should not have ever accomplished these unhealthy issues. That is as fallacious as considering that since you weren’t robbed by a robber, they can not have robbed anybody else.
Irrespective of how that lawsuit seems, and billionaire richest man on this planet Elon is much more Teflon than Trump in terms of the legislation, what the proof being introduced forth suggests is that the issues Elon spews on Twitter mirror his actual world insurance policies and ripple out into the actual world. They don’t seem to be informal jokes; they’re the tradition he invitations.
So his tweet about giving Taylor infants, though she has a boyfriend and has by no means been keen on Musk, has a menacing implication. The tweet is a response to her free speech; her endorsement of the political candidate she prefers.
Musk makes quite a lot of noise about free speech, it’s the justification he makes use of for permitting a CSAM sharing account again on the platform, for instance, however when a robust, lovely lady like Taylor Swift makes use of her free speech on one other platform, Musk reduces her to a sexual object for use for birthing — an idea over which he shares his obsession relatively too continuously for consolation.
Sexual objectification of ladies is inherent within the present darkish coalition of proper wing energy. Similar to Trump tries to scale back Kamala Harris to her magnificence and her previous romantic life, Musk sees Taylor as an object to be conquered when she speaks up. In actuality, Swift is a world energy with a military of actual Swifties who see proper by Musk’s weirdness over Taylor.
Males like Trump and Musk take refuge amongst their very own form, as a result of different males received’t have them. That’s why Trump is surrounded by males accused of assaulting ladies. Like attracts like, water seeks its personal stage, and one factor is evident: Neither of those males ought to have government-sanctioned energy over ladies and women.
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