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Elon Musk Is a Misogynist

and It Matters

Musk tops the world’s wealthiest list and is

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sexist rhetoric worsens the lives of every

woman in STEM.

Women in tech face considerable obstacles that start during their

youngest years in school and persist in careers that they are frequently

forced to abandon because of pay disparities and harassment. So when

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makes a sexist tweet that gets over 600,000 likes, or moves company

headquarters to a state that has put a bounty on women seeking medical

care, it has a collective impact on women employed in tech jobs and a

direct impact on the women who work for him.

Musk’s social media has won him the scrutiny of the Securities and

Exchange Commission and a defamation lawsuit. But he has not had to

answer for his tweets that would land him an HR investigation if he was

anyone else but himself. In late October he tweeted, “Am thinking of

starting new university: Texas Institute of Technology & Science.” That’s

TITS if you didn’t get it. He followed it up with, “It will have epic merch.”

Merch which he’d be quick to boost, like he did the year before when he

tweeted out that the company was selling limited-edition booty shorts,

with a link to the listing of a woman wearing a bra and the red satin

short shorts, “S3XY” emblazoned across the back. (The word is an

amalgamation of all of the Tesla models, with the 3 in place of an “e” in

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There are plenty who dismiss these and his love of slipping “69” into his

tweets or sending out soft-core stills as just some juvenile humor.

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