Elon Musk’s quest to make men great again

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Elon Musk is making things really clear: He is a Bro. He is such a Big Time Bro that this past week he tweeted an apparent offer to impregnate America’s Sweetheart, Taylor Swift, and publicly detailed a raunchy joke about male and female anatomy that he wanted to tell on national television.

Before that, there was an X user’s post he amplified suggesting high-testosterone, alpha men were better equipped for parsing information than women and weak men. “That is why a Republic of high status males is best for decision making," the post read, to which Musk added: “Interesting observation." It is all part of his public embrace of an idea of tough-guy masculinity made popular through social-media memes—white, heterosexual males with money, power, success and female conquests. A public version of Musk has emerged that is warm to strong-man leaders and pushes back against what he describes as runaway political correctness hemming in men and their natural predilections.

At the very least, some would consider his most recent antics as ungentlemanly—even if some of it was obviously in jest, and he does have his history of crude jokes. The risk for the 53-year-old comes in offending not just Karens but all women, which is especially troublesome if you are trying to sell them on your cool electric cars or your free-speech platform or trips to Mars. Musk’s tough bravado is giving voice to a political undercurrent already present in a nation that sees a younger generation of men and women on opposite political sides.