Rape jokes in high places
Ew. I missed this one.
The reactions from Republicans over Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris have ranged from sour to feigned disregard, but one particularly disturbing response from the right came from none other than Elon Musk.
On Tuesday night, the pop star announced in an Instagram post that she would vote for Harris in November. Swift, 34, signed off her statement as “childless cat lady,” a clear swipe at GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance, who has mocked and dismissed women without biological children.
Shortly after that, 53-year-old Musk — who has endorsed Donald Trump — inserted himself into the discourse in the sleaziest way possible, writing on X: “Fine Taylor … you win … I will give you a child and guard your cats with my life.”
That’s right. A woman does something a man doesn’t like, so he rebukes her with his dick. A woman says something, so a man says he will rape her.
Given the way he looks at everything as business, that looks more like a swap, a trade of child for cats. He gives her one of his children and takes ownership of her cats, which he guards with his life.
I should be clear: one of his existing children.
English is often an imprecise tool, even for pedants like your humble narrator.
Hahaha I like the swap interpretation.
Tesla…and evs more broadly…is fading. But to save itself, the company needs to jettison this increasingly deranged loon. I know I would never buy one exclusively because of Musk. A shame…thousands of jobs in California and elsewhere. But car companies have always been run by loons. Henry Ford, anyone?
Swapping in or putting in a non-biological child doesn’t count. Harris is sneered at as “childless,” even though she is a stepparent.
Musk’s “joke” reads rapey to me, in the same way that lesbians are threatened: “you just haven’t had the right dick (mine) yet.”
— childless, lesbian, cat mom