Elon Musk has unusual relationships with women at SpaceX, WSJ reports
www.theverge.com
He repeatedly asked one woman to have his children.
  • ಠ_ಠ@infosec.pubEnglish
    1654·
    6 months ago

    Bad title.

    Powerful people abusing their position to take advantage of others is, sadly, not unusual.

  • Geek_King@lemmy.worldEnglish
    105·
    6 months ago

    The whole article is full of gross stuff if true. This part is ridiculous:

    A 2022 story reported that a flight attendant on Musk’s private jet said he exposed himself and offered “to buy her a horse in exchange for an erotic massage,”

    Elon is such a weirdo.

    • elliot_crane@lemmy.worldEnglish
      49·
      6 months ago

      Damn I didn’t realize there were people who still didn’t know the infamous pony story. Yes, Elon is a weirdo, and like many a rich asshole, believes he can coerce, purchase, or is otherwise entitled to, consent from random women.

      • AggressivelyPassive@feddit.deEnglish
        20·
        6 months ago

        Truth is, it works often enough that they’ll keep trying.

        Whether it’s fear, greed, or actual attraction doesn’t matter to them, in their world they scored a win.

        • elliot_crane@lemmy.worldEnglish
          102·
          6 months ago

          I remember when I needed the constant validation of getting sex from women in order to feel like a winner. Then I stopped being 20 years old.

          • AggressivelyPassive@feddit.deEnglish
            17·
            6 months ago

            I don’t think it’s validation in the sense we normies felt. For regular, sane men it’s more of a fitting in and being desirable kind of validation, women do the same in that age.

            For him and other powerful people (but also some regular men) it’s a power thing. Many powerful people are narcissists, and they live constantly under the dissonance of illusion of grandeur and inferiority complex. Essentially forcing their will onto others is a way to mitigate the latter.

            • elliot_crane@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              6 months ago

              Sure but that’s still validation right? “I’m powerful because I can get people to do what I want them to do”.

              • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
                6·
                6 months ago

                It’s the same phenomenon, but most people age out of it.

                To paraphrase Bojack Horseman: you stop maturing emotionally as soon as you no longer feel that you need to depend on other people.

                Or, to quote Ron Howard: “It’s Arrested Development”

    • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      6 months ago

      Okay, so, how does this work? The horse bit, I mean. Does she want a horse, or was this just a gesture where the brain was off and the penis is at the wheel? Even if she wants a horse, they are kinda high maintenance. Does the horse deal come with a stable, and adjacent home? What about food and care for the duration of the horse’s life? Someone to tend to the horse while she is working? What about the taxes on the land that this sits on? Does she get the land too? Is the land going to be in a geographical area that she wants? Good access to nearby towns, power, water, sewage, municipal trash services? Good school district? Who is paying for the utilities for this land/home? Good access to emergency services? Low crime, pollution, risk of natural disasters? I could go on.

      I mean there’s a lot involved when you’re being asked for a handy. Gotta make sure you get all the details!

    • Coasting0942@reddthat.comEnglish
      91·
      6 months ago

      No where in history was that a legitimate trade. Only her father would take such a dumb deal.

      Aristocrats can afford to pay a house at a minimum. Don’t let them devalue your worth.

  • Fedizen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    89·
    6 months ago

    Computer, translate

    Unusual relationships with women

    from WSJ into english

    Computer: beep boop boop beep

    Computer: “Sexual Harassment”

  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    443·
    6 months ago

    Why cross these boundaries when you can just fill a yacht with porn stars and supermodels voluntarily and not violate any HR policies?

    • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
      35·
      6 months ago

      I am so looking forward to asking Elon for his long-form birth certificate

    • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      4·
      6 months ago

      So he’s ineligible to run for president as he’s not a natural born citizen, but this made me wonder, are there any laws on who can be VP? What if they’re further down the line of succession, like Speaker of the House or president pro tem. of the Senate? What happens if, through the line of succession, someone who is ineligible to run still becomes president?

      • bluGill@kbin.run
        6·
        6 months ago

        No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President

        You can argue that it doesn’t say anything about vice president, but then he can’t be part of the line of succession so what is the point. Though I wonder if maybe saying he can’t be vice president on those grounds means speaker of the house also must be natural born… The constitution is short and so you can come up with weird situations like this all over.

        • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          6 months ago

          Theoretically they could be VP. I imagine if their President left office for some reason, either they’d just be acting President, not actual President, or the line of succession would skip them.

  • DarkGamer@fedia.io
    34·
    6 months ago

    Because he’s a billionaire he gets away with doing things that would destroy a normal person over and over again, I don’t like the tiered consequences that our society exhibits.

    • AggressivelyPassive@feddit.deEnglish
      133·
      6 months ago

      Especially in terms of “legally not rape” charges, even the average man has to face terrifyingly few consequences. So many women report assaults, unwanted aggressive advances and “not exactly consensual kinds of intercourse” without the men ever facing anything serious, not even stigma. Banging blackout drunk girls is a sport for some people.

  • datavoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
    341·
    6 months ago

    I was feeling bad for his ex right up until this gem:

    ”Then he took me to a bookstore and handed me his credit card. “Buy as many books as you want,” he said. No man could have said anything sweeter.”

  • CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish
    7·
    6 months ago

    This is probably a good portion of return to office mandates too, this and wage theft from having less stocks elegiable to vest due to people quiting