There is so much breathtaking oddity in the Wall Street Journal report on the apparent fetish of Elon Musk’s baby. Musk contacted random women whom he never met and asked to impregnate them. He united women to have babies with notes of massive wages, but then regenerated the agreement when they asked for normal behavior from the father, as to recognize paternity. He demanded that a baby mom had a cesarean, because he thinks that vaginal delivery narrows baby’s brains. He wanted to hire a fleet of substitution mothers, so that he could build a “legion” of children while keeping many pregnant women at the same time. And discreet what made me laugh the hardest, Musk sent a text to an influencer on the right with which he had overthrown: “Men are made for war. Real men, anyway”, what he followed, “I am in complete war mode. I’m going on the front line today.” Must win PA. ” (He referred to his speech during a campaign gathering for Donald Trump.)
Musk’s behavior is the symptom of an increasing problem in the Maga world: the obsession with masculinity, fueled by social media, becomes more foreign.
But what struck me – and often strikes me in the cover of Musk’s spiral in a total crank – is the way in which the richest man in the world seems alone. It is far from normal human interaction, which has not passed it from reality. He tries to build a compound in Austin, Texas, “where Musk imagined that women and his growing number of babies would all live among several residences”, as he is a Mormon Polygame in Warren Jeffs mode. But it seems that he has little, if not, of takers to live near him. His interactions with women and their children seem mainly through lawyers and its financial director. He keeps a grandson all the time, but calls him a “human emotional support”, as if he were an object and not a child. Musk has more than a dozen children, but does not seem to have family.
As many liberals have rushed predictable in front to underline it, it is difficult to square the behavior of Musk with his status as hero on the Christian right. This hypocrisy is not new, of the same people who treat Donald Trump as if he were a Christian prophet, despite his three marriages and his chronic adultery. But at this stage, it should be obvious that these people never cared “family values”, but rather male domination. A rich guy paying dozens of women so that his babies read like “Alpha Male” by Maga, so the Christian right remains largely mom on this subject. In fact, there is already at least one future Christian influencer selling lessons on “bibilical marriage”, by which it means that men can have several women.
Do you want more Amanda Marcotte on politics? Subscribe only to his newsletter room.
If anything, Musk’s behavior is the symptom of an increasing problem in the Maga world: the obsession with masculinity, fueled by social media, becomes more foreign. In the online competition for attention, people are constantly looking for attention with extreme and bizarre behavior. Combined with the hyper-point on “proving” virility on the right, this leads to an attitude “at the head of this” which leads men to increase their aggression, to exaggerate their gender performance in a caricatural way and, of course, to “win” to be the most cruel misogynist. In the process, these influencers encourage their audience to act harmful not only to others, but to themselves-often mainly for themselves.
The most obvious manifestation is to know how the toxic masculinity of Maga redefines “health” as a levels of comics muscles, which can often be obtained only by risky means such as steroid abuse and cosmetic surgery. For example, the influencer of “fitness” Brian Johnson – alias the “liver” – who pushes a meat diet to his almost three million Instagram followers and, well, looks like this.
Off with the head!
Real men take revenge, and it’s primitive AF!
Never let another man take it with impunity.
Male emotions like:
-Rage,
-Reven, and
-Ruthlessness…Have great use, when used in an appropriate context and a fair balance. pic.twitter.com/czhlz40kky
– Liver King (@liverking) January 25, 2024
It is the male version of the “Mar-A-Lago” face, where the right-wing people deform their appearance to exaggerate sex at the point of grotesque. Food trends in the “Manosphere” would give any doctor a headache: mainly meat, very few vegetables and often eating raw foods, which risks a disease. Even a skinny “manfluance” like Jordan Peterson claimed to eat a diet solely of beef, which would destroy your intestines and is terrible for your heart. Trump’s HHS secretary Robert Kennedy makes fun of this world, constantly affirming his too muscular framework is simply due to a diet and exercise and making ridiculous affirmations that the frying in the beef is good for you.
With Maga’s social media body dysmorphia, radical “advice” to the male public on the appropriate relations between men and women. To compete for the public, influencers continue to try to surpass themselves with growing demands of female submission which are not only immoral, but impracticable in everything that resembles a real human relationship. There is Andrew Tate, of course, who built his audience by boasting of keeping a harem of submissive friends who look a little like sex trafficking, for which he was finally loaded, with a rape, in Romania. (Fortunately for him, however, the Trump administration has come to the rescue!) There is the “fresh and fit” podcast with disturbance “Fresh and Fit, whose” advice “of dating is shocking. The hosts say to men that women will compete if they are hateful and abusive. And Sneako, who educates the Values that” Reinses and the value of a man is your masculinity “. Matt Walsh, for his part, gives conferences that the place of a woman is as” camaraderie “and that men do not want – or should not – a partner who has money or life.
This thing is disgusting, but it is also the worst possible advice that you could give to men. Being a fool does not win women. This pursues them. Vera Papisova, describing herself as a “republican-cooker”, spent a year meeting men on a right-wing meeting application and wrote on this subject for Cosmo. She said to CNN: “They are the most unsatisfied men with whom I sat down. It was really difficult to have some of these dates because they were so unsafe, because they don’t really know who they are – and they don’t know how to understand that.”
We continue to hear about the epidemic of male solitude. It is not so surprising that some men find it difficult to connect to women, to make friends or to do well at work, when they flush in large numbers to online influencers telling them to behave like anti -social monsters. The story of Musk is extreme, because his wealth means that he never faces a significant decline in his erratic behavior. But what is disturbing is that Musk still has millions of fanboys around the world. Musk treats everyone as garbage, comparing other people to the characters not played in video games. He is rich, so he will always have a supply of gourmet people who support him in exchange for money. Most men, however, will find that being like Musk means being alone. Hell, even with all his money, Musk is struggling to bring women to acquiesce his abusive behavior, which is why his long -awaited “compound” seems to be a ghost city.
Not that male influencers Maga care, of course. Angry and alienated men are their audience. They cannot have men to find romantic success and to develop a robust social life. So who would consume their content?
Learn more
About this subject
