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PaperclipPerfector  2mo ago (text post)   2884 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for February 16, 2025

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What do you guys make of the Elon - Ashley St. Claire babymama drama?

For context, Ashley St. Claire is a conservative Twitter personality who announced on Valentine's Day that Elon Musk has fathered a child with her. This was followed-up with a vaguely threatening statement from Ashley's lawyer. There are screenshots going around that suggest a less-than-cordial relationship between Ashley and Elon, though I can't verify these. There are also potential inconsistencies.

I understand a wealthy man having a mistress or two besides his wife, and having children with all of them. I can understand having a harem of women who have his kids. I can get a man who wants children regardless of his interest in their mothers.

But of Elon’s thirteen children, possibly only one was conceived naturally. He takes no interest in the rest besides paying bills. Uh, what gives? I mean there’s an interesting point about IVF and family bonding to be made but WTF? He doesn’t have an array of beautiful women and if babies happen they happen. He doesn’t take much interest in the rearing of his deliberate children, which you’d expect to be the case if he just wanted kids. Is this just some weird autistic compulsion?

I guess I can understand wanting to have kids, and I can understand wanting to have sex. I can’t understand going out of your way to father children when you don’t want either.

I'm confused by the confusion. He thinks his genes are superior and wants to spread them, and he has the means to avoid having to raise them personally.

But he doesn’t seem to want kids at all. He’s not just hiring a nanny. He doesn’t seem to have custody agreements where he gets the kid for just long enough to be the perpetual cool parent, except for his kid with grimes. The only thing is that the kids exist.

I can understand a rich guy simply paying child support to his nubile concubines and otherwise taking no interest in his offspring. I can understand creating kids because he wants them. But he doesn’t seem to.

Did Genghis Khan want any of these things? Of course not - he just wanted to spread his seed.

Genghis khan presumably enjoyed having sex with these many, many women.

Yes, but I assume he also wanted numerous offspring.

No, there is a difference. Most men who want this also want to have some influence over the way their sons are raised, how they are educated, what they believe. They want an army, a legacy, a legion of sons who look up to them and who follow them and who carry on their essence in ways that are substantially but not solely genetic. Elon doesn’t really do any of this, these kids are going to grow up to be the generic lib children of their prostitute mothers. That is less usual.

Thank you, this is what I’m getting at- when my aunt’s husband divorced her after selling a patent, he was more than happy to use money as a substitute for doing any of the actual work involved in parenting. But he was very very particular about how other people did the work, he wanted to see report cards, decide on schools, residence, etc.

This is the sort of thing that would be far more typical of Musk.

He doesn't want to be a parent. He wants to be a sire. What you've described is in line with this. It may well be unusual or alien but it isn't confusing and lines up with his stated preferences, so yeah my vote is "autistic compulsion".

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