Grimes said that the conversation eventually revealed that Musk believes, somewhat erroneously, that "every way that you transition can cause fertility issues" — an unsurprising sticking point for the billionaire, who has fathered at least 10 children and is reportedly obsessed with fertility.

  • Flyberius [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    I hate it when they justify their transphobia by pretending to care. And fertility? What an utterly bizarre reason. Bordering on "Every sperm is precious" levels of nuttery.

    • Mindfury [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      he straight up subscribes to the same ideology as Jeffrey Epstein did, to the letter

      which is what makes his constant deflection of the Ghislaine picture so much more hilarious

    • markr [he/him, any]
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      1 year ago

      Sacred, not precious. Misquoting Python is heresy.

      Every sperm is sacred Every sperm is great If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate

      • JuneFall [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        Musk really wants to have breeding chambers like in the Matrix movies, while not getting the trans allusions in the movie. After the revolution we will see if Musk becomes like the last Emperor of China.

  • M68040 [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    Rich idiots not make their breeding fetish a core part of their philosophy challenge

  • Gay_Tomato [they/them, it/its]
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    1 year ago

    Good fucking lord he can't even be transphobic without thinking about getting someone pregnant. Why has millions of years of human labor culminated in forcing me to constantly hear about this creeps breeding fetish??? screm3why-angelscrem-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

  • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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    1 year ago

    So basically, he resents his trans kid because that’s one less kid that will spread his genes in the future?

    That’s fucking weird as hell dude

  • YearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    My opinion? He's engaging in the time honored capitalist tradition of lying all the time abut anything and everything.

    He's a weirdo sure, but is he soooo different and special that he's just transphobic because of his eccentric obsessions? No shot. He's just got the same anxieties about gender as every other transphobe. Not even exceptional in his bigotry

    the weirdo angle here is that he thought this made him sound better. But I guess it did, to Grimes

  • ZapataCadabra [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I really think enough right wing weirdos who follow him told him not to like trans people and he's just desperate for their approval and has now internalized the position. If you ask him I'm sure he'd say he's always felt this way, but if we could time travel to the exact moment I'm sure it begins with a tweet somewhere.

    • AlicePraxis
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      5 months ago

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      • KarlBarqs [he/him, they/them]
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        1 year ago

        It's frankly shocking in hindsight how many movies in the 90s and early 00s used "attractive woman used to be a man" as a joke. Like no other punchline, just "haha she used to be a man" or the even more disgusting variant of "male main character shocked and disgusted by knowledge they slept with post op trans woman". Like you're right, pop culture barely acknowledged trans people as even existing normally until... Fuck, barely 10 years ago?

        • YaaAsantewaa [love/loves, comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          In the 1990's making fun of gay people on national TV like SNL skits was perfectly acceptable

          People forget same-sex marriage was only legalized here around 2004, that's only 19 years

          • DoubleShot [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            I attended a Christian university in the early 00s. Obviously not a representative sample size but guys around me used the f-word slur like it was going out of style. And while a bunch of white Christian college guys are gonna use that word a lot more, it’s use was still fairly common among other people I knew.

  • GarfieldYaoi [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Queerphobia is always just someone taking their breeding kink way too far, change my mind.

  • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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    1 year ago

    The absolutefrothingfash with which transphobes responded to a transwomen breastfeeding her infant makes me think that fertility may not be the main sticking point here