Elon Musk’s daughter calls him an absent father
Want to do some math a la Musk? Here you go: there are 24 hours in a day, and even the most superhuman among us needs to get some sleep. Elon Musk, unless he’s figured out how to clone himself, is just one person. He has at least 12 children with multiple women. His first child tragically died as a baby, and some of his children are now adults, but he has six children under the age of five. He also runs six companies and oversees more than 130,000 people He’s all over the world. And he spends a lot of his life tweeting. Given this busy life, how does the billionaire spend so much time with his kids?
He doesn’t, is the short answer. Basic math should tell you that — but Elon Musk’s own daughter told us so, too. On Thursday, the billionaire’s 20-year-old transgender daughter, Vivian Wilson, painted a very unflattering portrait of Musk as a father on Threads(Threads is Twitter’s version of Meta.) Wilson said her father was never around when she was growing up, and when he was, he bullied her relentlessly about her “femininity and homosexuality.” The 20-year-old, whose mother, Justine Wilson, divorced Elon Musk in 2008, expanded on those comments in an interview with NBC News where she called her father “uncaring and narcissistic.”
Wilson, who legally dropped Musk’s name in 2022has so far remained largely out of the public eye. But she spoke out because her father left her with virtually no choice. In a recent rant interview with the professor on the right and beef keen Jordan PetersonElon Musk has gone on a disturbing anti-trans rant about his daughter. The tech mogul claimed he was “tricked” into letting Vivian undergo sex rehab treatment when she was 16. He went on to call sex rehab treatment “infant mutilation” and named his daughter after her.
“My son… is dead. Killed by the mental awakening virus,” Musk told Peterson. That would be a horrible thing to say under any circumstances, but it’s even more horrible when you consider that Musk has suffered the death of a child: His first son, Nevada, died at just 10 weeks of sudden infant death syndrome.
Musk didn’t stop there. After Peterson’s interview, he took to X, where he “informed” his 191 million subscribers that her His daughter “was born gay and mildly autistic, two characteristics that contribute to gender dysphoria.” He added that he knew Wilson was gay because she loved musicals when she was four and would pick out jackets for him and call them “fabulous.” All the hallmarks of homosexuality, of course! Musk concluded by saying, “He was not a girl.”
Wilson later retorted on Threads that the stories about the clothes and musicals were made up. “It’s all completely made up and there’s a reason for it. He doesn’t know what I was like as a kid because he just wasn’t there.” Wilson said“I was reduced to a happy little stereotype,” she continued. “I think that says a lot about how he views gay people and children in general.”
That’s certainly the case, though it doesn’t say much we didn’t already know. Musk, who controls a hugely influential media platform, has a well-documented track record history to promote anti-trans He also likes to share his parenting advice with the world. One of the billionaire’s favorite arguments is that there’s a fertility crisis and everyone needs to have more kids. He’s a little more vague about how people without billions in the bank are going to be able to care for all those kids — perhaps because he doesn’t really care about the kids themselves, he’s just interested in producing more cannon fodder for capitalism.
This obsession with making babies and seeming disdain for caring for children is widespread on the right. Republicans want to force women to give birth, but they seem to have absolutely no interest in the well-being of those children once they leave the womb. Numerous studies show that states with the strictest abortion laws have the highest rates of abortion. lowest maternal support.
You know what else this episode reveals? How little society expects of fathers. It really infuriates me that so many people don’t seem to care that Musk continues to make such a huge effort to have more children that he spends very little time with. Can you imagine if he were a woman? He would be constantly attacked for not being there for his kids. He would be constantly criticized for being a bad mother. People still expect women to put their children first. As things are slowly changing, society has much lower standards for fathers. All they have to do is change a diaper every now and then and people are ready to crown them Dad of the Year.
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