The companies led by the boob-obsessed billionaire have faced a number of sexual harassment lawsuits. Why do his cult-like followers still consider him a genius?
lon Musk is a boob. The brash billionaire is also, as he can’t stop telling the world, embarrassingly obsessed with breasts – so much so that last yearover the “W” on the Twitter sign at the San Francisco headquarters so that it read “Titter”. This belaboured joke was a long time in the making: days before offering to buy TwitterThis wasn’t the first time he’d publicly sniggered “Haha, female anatomy is hilarious!” like a dimwitted schoolboy.
An awful lot of people seem to dismiss Musk’s juvenile behaviour and incessant innuendo as harmless high jinks. But this is wrong: his misogyny matters. Musk heads multiple influential companies. His behaviour, it seems reasonable to assume, has a direct impact on their working environments.
Numerous lawsuits against Musk and his companies seem to hold the answer. In 2021, for example, just weeks after the billionaire’s “Texas Institute of Technology” quip, a Tesla factory worker called Jessica Barraza filed a complaint alleging the car company“pervasive culture of sexual harassment … including frequent groping on the factory floor.” Barraza claimed she was frequently propositioned and subject to comments like “Look at those titties” and “She’s got cakes”.
Shotwell may protest that she knows a very different Musk, but none of these new allegations seem at odds with the public persona Musk has crafted for himself: that of a sex pest who is obsessed with For a while now I’ve assumed that Musk’s shenanigans would eventually catch up with him.
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