--- title: "Elon Musk Threatens to Impregnate Taylor Swift" description: "In a grotesque tweet, X owner Elon Musk appeared to threaten Taylor Swift with sexual violence, suggesting he'd impregnate her." date: "2024-09-11" modified: "2024-09-11" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-impregnate-taylor-swift" categories: - "Elon Musk" - "Future Society" - "The Industrialists" tags: - "elon musk" - "taylor swift" - "the digest" --- # Elon Musk Threatens to Impregnate Taylor Swift ![In a grotesque tweet, X owner Elon Musk appeared to threaten Taylor Swift with sexual violence, suggesting he'd impregnate her.]() *\Image: Jean Catuffe/GC Images\* ## Flop Era International pop sensation Taylor Swift finally announced her endorsement of vice president Kamala Harris last night, right as the first debate between Harris and Donald Trump wrapped up. In a [carefully worded statement]() on Instagram, Swift said she'd vote for Harris "because she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them" — signing the note "Childless Cat Lady," in reference to Trump's running mate JD Vance's [constant derision of childless women]() like herself. Meanwhile, multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk — who has quickly mutated into former president [Donald Trump's number one fan]() — responded to the announcement with a [grotesque tweet]() in which he appeared to threaten the pop star with impregnation. "Fine Taylor... you win..." he wrote. "I will give you a child and guard your cats with my life." ## Jeepers Creeper It doesn't take much unpacking to realize just how disturbing — and downright creepy — Musk's utterance came off. Many users on his social media platform were appalled at the insinuations. "Elon showing the world that he’s a misogynistic pig," the account for international hacker group Anonymous [replied](). "Elon never fails to show the world who he really is." "That’s creepy dude, but we always knew you were creepy," another user [wrote](). Musk, who has long argued that falling fertility rates will be the root cause of the [fall of civilization](), has had 12 children — that we know about — with four women. He's also caught up in an [ugly custody battle]() with ex-girlfriend Claire "Grimes" Boucher, with whom he's had three children. It's not the first time he's showed a strange eagerness to impregnate others. Earlier this year, the [*New York Times* reported]() that Musk went as far as to [volunteer his sperm to SpaceX employees]() to seed a future Martian colony. When you add his track record of [misogynist remarks]() and [objectifying women](), it starts to sound like he sees them as nothing more than vessels that birth his children — the exact same rhetoric repeatedly shared by Trump and Vance. Just last week, Musk even [shared a glaringly sexist theory]() that suggested women and "low-testosterone" men shouldn't be allowed to make decisions in a democracy. The contrast was especially clear because in her endorsement, Swift alluded to that exact energy on the Republican ticket, praising Harris' running mate Tim Walz' support of a "woman’s right to her own body." In short, Musk's tweet is the perfect summation of his decline into a strange and isolated man who's lost the ability to talk to women, abdicated any sense of which thoughts are appopriate to share with the world, and eager to put his misogyny on full hyper-public display. **More on Musk and women:** *[Elon Musk Suggests That Government Should Be Replaced by Dudes With High Testosterone]()* ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()