The Elon Musk Bill Gates Meme Is Fat Shaming
‘in case u need to lose a boner fast’ — Elon Musk
There’s no doubt that Elon Musk, the richest man on earth has die-hard fans on Twitter.
He has Twitter in the palm of his hands. And in a few days if the Twitter board agrees to sell the company to Musk, then he becomes one of the very few creator CEO with a platform.
He becomes another Jeff Bezos who owns the Washington Post but is 100x bigger.
It is possible that he can or will use Twitter to attack anyone as he pleases.
This past week, it was revealed that Musk confronted Bill Gates for short-selling Tesla stock and their conversation was leaked on Twitter.
Soon after a meme from Elon Musk and Twitter exploded.
He compared Bill Gates to the pregnant man emoji, not only did he fat-shamed Gates but he was guilty of queer cultural appropriation.
The pregnant man emoji isn’t an emoji to make fun of overweight men, it is a representation of transmen who got pregnant. The pregnant man emoji is a tool to celebrate diversity and LGBTQIA rights.
And it didn’t take more than 9 words to shame Bill Gates publicly, Musk’s caption goes —
‘in case u need to lose a boner fast’ — Elon Musk
And with over a million likes, the comments mostly negative, Musk unleashed his social media power against Bill Gates.
How can you not see a “Kill Bill” metaphor at work here?
It’s confusing why Bill Gates is betting against Tesla when Gates is trying to solve climate change? Isn’t that what electric cars do, they cut carbon emissions?
Tesla, as a company, says that “the faster the world stops relying on fossil fuels and moves towards a zero-emission future, the better.”
Who can blame Elon Musk for getting mad at Gates for his duplicity, after all, Gates invited Musk to join him in his philanthropic mission to save the planet?
To which Musk not only declined but gave Gates a fuck off with the trending meme.
Bill Gates
Bill Gates is the classic example of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, on one hand, he is doing his best to save the world, but at the same time when his marriage collapsed one of the reasons given by Melinda French Gates was his ‘association’ with Jeff Epstein a convicted sex offender and a pedophile.
A man, Melinda Gates called evil personified.
“I regretted it from the second I stepped in the door. He was abhorrent. He was evil personified. I had nightmares about it afterwards. So, you know, my heart breaks for these young women, because that’s how I felt, and here I’m an older woman. My god, I feel terrible for those young women. It was awful.” — Melinda French Gates
It is very easy not to be on Bill Gates's side, he calls Jeffrey Epstein an error in judgment, and yet he ‘spilled the beans about his marriage to a man who was convicted of sex trafficking.
He called his marriage to Melinda Gates, a ‘toxic marriage.’
Fat Shaming
It never goes away. It’s a weapon, and most of its victims are young girls and women.
Men can also feel fat-shamed. Musk had valid points to be upset with Bill Gates. But rather than focus on issues, he used a meme as his weapon to ‘kill Bill’.
Words that not only shamed Bill Gates on social media but also made it look Ok for bullies to make fun of people based on their weight and age.
Ageism and fat-shaming hurt people.
And I’m not just talking about Bill Gates, who by his association with Epstein had developed some thick skin against criticism but I’m talking about the millions who suffer from low self-esteem all because of their body image.
What Is Fat Shaming? To make overweight people feel embarrassed of themselves, fat shaming involves criticizing and tormenting them about their weight or eating habits.
This is believed to promote people to eat less and exercise more in order to lose weight.
The majority of people who fat shame others are thin and have never had to deal with a weight issue.
According to research, most of the obesity conversation on social media comprises fat shaming, which frequently leads into harassment and cyberbullying, particularly against women.
Final words
Elon Musk in all likelihood is the next owner of Twitter, which he plans to make a private company.
His tiff with Bill Gates only shows what we can expect more of what will happen on Twitter once Musk gets hold of the social media platform
The $43 billion he is paying could be a pittance compared to what Twitter can add to his personal brand.
And while he doesn’t need more attention, his ego craves more.
As for Bill Gates while he deserves all the flak he has been receiving, from his being one of Jeff Epstein’s friends, for calling his marriage to Melinda Gates toxic, for his ‘cowspiracy,’ he doesn’t need to be fat-shamed.
Elon Musk can do better than making memes. And he better stops using the pregnant man emoji as a joke. Transgender rights are human rights.
Thank you for reading.
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