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Will Elon Musk’s incessant innuendo ever catch up with him? (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/feminism

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The companies led by the boob-obsessed billionaire have faced a number of sexual harassment lawsuits. Why do his cult-like followers still consider him a genius?

Elon Musk is a boob. The brash billionaire is also, as he can’t stop telling the world, embarrassingly obsessed with breasts – so much so that last year he painted over the “W” on the Twitter sign at the San Francisco headquarters so that it read “Titter”. This belaboured joke was a long time in the making: days before offering to buy Twitter in April 2022, he tweeted a poll: “Delete the w in Twitter?” It’s highly possible that Musk spent $44bn on the social media platform just so that he could one day turn this very stupid gag into reality. This wasn’t the first time he’d publicly sremoveded “Haha, female anatomy is hilarious!” like a dimwitted schoolboy.In 2021 he joked about starting a university called the Texas Institute of Technology & Science. Gettit? It’s a naughty acronym. Hilarious! Indeed, this particular joke never seems to get old for the 52-year-old. Earlier this year, he tweeted “Boobs just rock, it’s a fact,” alongside a meme of a man distracted by a woman’s cleavage.

An awful lot of people seem to dismiss Musk’s juvenile behaviour and incessant innuendo as harmless high jinks. But this is wrong: his misogyny matters.

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[–] kamenlady 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

If you take a closer look at his family ( his father in particular ), you'll see where this kind of behavior comes from.

I mean, his father rather recently married the daughter of his ex wife. Granted, it's not his daughter / her Mom isn't Elon's Mom, but he was a father to her growing up ffs.

In the interview he said, that women are not anymore desirable after a certain age. That's why he opted now for the daughter and wants to make as many kids as possible with her. You know, he really believes his genes are superior and must be spread as wide as possible. Her Mom is living with it, even supporting both.

I paraphrased, but he's really a very special kind of asshole.

I can imagine that it wasn't fun, growing up as musk senior's son.

It's no excuse though.

[–] Got_Bent 6 points 5 months ago

Jesus that's some real life I am my own grandpa shit there

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

he has too much money for you to do anything to him. see also; the orange turd

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

It’s just locker room talk /s

In all seriousness, it’s shit like this. It gets dismissed as funny or guy humor and if you say something, it’s because you hate fun.

But we see where it leads - these sexual harassment suits against Musk, the reports of the rampant harassment culture at his companies, Donald Trump being convicted for sexual assault (please spare me the “but actsually” here - I’m basing this off of what the judge said) - it doesn’t stay there while you laugh. It continues to grow, reach out, and do more. It doesn’t care about consent. lol are we all laughing yet? No? Why do you hate fun?!?!? Fuck. Off. With. That. Shit. It’s pervasive and it never ends well. So say something, please.