Deeply misogynistic men like Elon Musk who treat woman as vessels to bear their children, while hiding behind a false image on environmentalism while they pillage and plunder the planet, are perhaps as much a threat to our environment as the fossil fuels they pretend their technology will render obsolete.
Elon Musk is a capitalist, a narcissist and most certainly a misogynist.
Look at what Space X has done to the fragile ecosystem around Boca Chica, Texas alone and what emerges is a portrait of a man pursuing profit over any sort of concern for nature.
The illusion of Musk’s environmental concerns vanishes like the butterflies, birds and turtles that once lived in resplendent sanctuary.
Now women and children suffer every time he launches one of his phallic rockets, often blowing up a short time later from his stunted and rushed technology.
Launches routinely shake the foundations of homes, breaking windows and sending debris raining down on the communities below.
Their safety is of no concern to Elon Musk, nor is the safety of the workers who prepare his ego blast, many who do not wear safety equipment when he visits the Space X headquarters because he apparently doesn’t like the color yellow.
The death and injuries that have occurred in Space X’s relatively brief history are nothing short of staggering and apparently OSHA is nowhere to be found.
All for Musk’s desire to post pics of the latest launch on his twitter feed and send the not-so-subtle message to the other bald billionaires he is in perpetual competition with as to who possesses the biggest rocket.
Elon’s posts are usually followed up with some sort of inane comment about the necessity of humanity becoming an interplanetary species.
Personally, I would rather die on Earth than live on Mars with Elon Musk.
The fact that he receives a federal government subsidy to the tune of 15.3 billion dollars - and counting - to pursue such juvenile idiocy is a strategic flaw on the part of the United States.
Made even worse, in my opinion, by the fact that children routinely go to bed hungry every night in this country and millions are unhoused and medically uninsured.
On the list of priorities, a billionaire’s ego should be left off entirely. Even more so when he proves time and again he is a bad actor and no friend to democracy - or as he likes to proclaim ‘a champion of free speech’.
Starlink has launched so many satellites into space over the last several years that they now account for fifty percent of all satellites in ‘low-Earth’ orbit.
Even China, the world’s biggest environmental polluter and Musk’s business partner in his Tesla factories for his poorly manufactured and dangerous electric vehicles, has expressed concern.
The night sky is becoming littered with Starlink satellites.
So much so that they are becoming and obstacle to astronomers.
We may look up at the night sky soon and ask ourselves how we have allowed this to happen.
Replacing wonderment with WTF?
Not to mention that these satellites provide WIFI services that can be turned off on a whim by Musk himself; as he did last year at Russia’s request to protect the naval fleet from Ukraine’s self-defensive attack in Crimea.
Providing safe harbor for Russian ships that later launched missiles killing innocent women and children in Ukraine after Putin’s criminal invasion.
Musk made this decision in the middle of the night from the comfort of his suite at the Ritz Carlton in Paris, without seemingly a moment of moral conscience or concern for a people who have suffered tremendously.
Why would he care about women and children? Several of his own brood won’t even speak to him. Musk has eleven children and three ex-wives (at last count - though he keeps much of his affairs and progeny a secret).
He uses his wealth to abuse his parental rights; Musk is currently battling Grimes over the custody of their children, successfully avoiding being served a subpoena as she battles to regain custody.
He clearly sees women as something to be used and discarded - and has cut off contact with one of his children who came out as transgender when she was 16 years-old.
It comes as no surprise that Musk was an associate of Jeffrey Epstein and has been subpoenaed in a lawsuit that the U.S. Virgin Islands has brought against J.P. Morgan concerning ‘Epstein Island’ and their complicity in shielding Epstein’s criminality.
Musk and the British model he married (twice) when he was in his mid to late thirties and she was twenty-one years old, were guests at Epstein’s East 71st Street townhouse in New York City.
Which was run as brothel by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell for uber-wealthy businessmen including Donald Trump.
I personally know someone who was a paid companion of Donald Trump who spent time in this Upper East Side house of horrors and her words to me about it were “you would not believe what those men did to women and girls inside that place”.
Sadly I would believe it and I am quite convinced it was no secret in certain circles.
Of course all of this was covered up by A.G. Bill Barr during Trump’s first term in office (and hopefully his last).
Including the all-too-convenient suicide by Epstein while in federal custody.
Barr’s own father was a long time associate of Jeffrey Epstein going back to the early 1970s when he hired him to teach math and science at the exclusive NYC private school, Dalton, despite Epstein’s lack of a college degree. He was hired as a wingman and was known for being extra friendly with students before both men left a short time later for reasons that were protected by non-disclosure agreements.
But I digress.
It is no accident that Musk hosted a ‘twitter spaces’ with Andrew Tate, Alex Jones and several other influencers in the ‘manosphere’ including the obviously misogynistic Vivek Ramaswamy.
A man whose contempt for women was on such display at last week’s GOP debate that he earned himself a rhetorical slap from Chris Christie.
Vivek’s entire campaign seems designed to make him the next big right- wing podcaster and influencer. So far he has been quite successful since there are no real qualifications in the Republican party beyond being the most odious personality one can be - because cruelty is always the point.
These men make a small fortune online by espousing hateful rhetoric to impressionable young men who tune in to hear their violent, misogynistic attitudes towards women.
The so called ‘incel’ demographic which preys on emotionally stunted, fearful and awkward young men living in mom’s basement much the same way the NRA operates.
They pretend to sell the illusion of power to the powerless, equating brute force and caveman attitudes to a non-heterogeneous demographic with warped ideas of sexuality and intimacy.
Business has never been so good, thanks to the inroads of branded toxicity Trump has ushered much of the USA into with the MAGA movement.
The Tate brothers are leaders in this movement; Andrew Tate was arrested in Romania in June of this year for rape, human trafficking and forming an organized crime group to sexually exploit women.
The fact that Elon Musk would host Andrew Tate on twitter spaces along with the reinstatement of Alex Jones over this past weekend is an affront to decency, an insult to women and anyone with a shred of morality.
Alex Jones was found guilty of harassing the families of the children murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary school eleven years ago this week.
Jones spent years taunting them and telling his far-right listeners that the murderous rampage was just a hoax, subjecting them to stalking and harassment from his listeners.
There was a one billion dollar judgement against Alex Jones: he has used bankruptcy as an excuse to get out of paying restitution, despite the fact that his podcast ‘Infowars' rakes in hundreds of millions of dollars.
Musk’s reinstatement of Alex Jones is an attempt to help Jones make even more money, as well as a way to pour salt on the wounds that will never heal for the families of those murdered children.
Something Musk seems to take great pleasure in, his role of the world’s biggest troll.
It’s become sport for these sorts of men to abuse women, children and families.
Much like Trump who was known to be physically abusive to the underage girls that he paid Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell to acquire for him to sexually assault. Donald was known to seek out victims that bore a physical resemblance to his daughter Ivanka.
His obvious physical attraction to her is a most disgusting kink that I myself witnessed when I was in their presence on ‘Miss Teen USA’ pageants.
The pageants themselves seemed to be designed to feed Trump’s appetite, ego and sexually deviant nature. Even if the darker elements have not yet fully come into the light. The patterns are clear for anyone who cares to look.
Toxic masculinity combined with views that see femininity as something to be conquered and possessed to satiate male desire is one of the most dangerous attributes in the damaged psyches of far too many men.
It is why they also view nature itself as something to be hunted and exploited rather than celebrated, nurtured and protected.
I have no fear of my feminine side, what Carl Jung referred to as ‘Anima’; my greatest teacher will always be Mother Nature herself.
I have learned more from birds than I could ever hope to from books.
It is also my belief that women in general would provide much better leadership the world over, if we would only stand back and allow feminine wisdom to work her magic.
This is something men have fought against for eons; in this country from the Salem witch trials through the present day.
The most recent and glaring example being Justice Alito’s disastrous and punitive legal opinions in the Dobbs vs Jackson Women’s Health case.
Samuel Alito even went so far as to quote Sir Matthew Hale in his written opinion, Hale being the intellectual fore bearer of the toxically puritanical movement that led cowardly and bitter white men to sentence nineteen women and girls to death by hanging in New England in the late 17th century.
The irony not being lost on me that Trump often characterized his myriad criminal cases as a ‘witch hunt’.
The war on democracy is also very much a war on women, and should a sexual predator like Donald Trump return to power it will send equal rights back centuries.
That it is being cheered on and exacerbated by malignant men like Elon Musk says much about this moment.
We must not look away or allow it to fester.
We certainly must do all we can to prevent the growing influence of the ‘manosphere’ on adolescent males who are already growing up in a culture that somehow equates femininity with weakness.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
I myself am a product of strong and compassionate women who have always served as role models and protectors to me.
Love and respect women; allow them to nurture and guide you.
Get in touch your ‘Anima’ and save this fertile but fragile planet while protecting democracy.
In this perilous moment there could be no truer way to ‘Man Up’.
I wish you peace.
Love Noel Casler.
I cringe when I see or hear Musk speaking; there is something within him that is so devoid of humanity, compassion and it terrifies me. No ONE person should every wield this much power; especially when there is so much at stake and he has the complete control of the 'town square' that so many of us came to rely upon. The man is not well. It's a hellscape now. I avoid it as best I can to protect my own sanity.
Noel, I could probably find the answer to this, but how the hell did he get the government subsidies for Starlink? Was it the orange Mussolini that granted him that obscene amount of money, and is there a way to rescind this?
Great read, as usual ~ thank you!!