“Because I Was An Uninvolved Parent, I Had To Buy A Company.”

WTF?

Ted Bauer
3 min readJul 23, 2024

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Elon kept teasing some seismic sitdown with perpetually-aggrieved big thinker Jordan Petersen the other day, and then they finally dropped it on Twitter, and here it is:

The big “reveal” in this interview is that Elon had — yes, had — to buy Twitter because he was so pissed at “the left,” since they “trans’ed” his child. If you are unfamilar with the story, Elon had a son named “Xavier” who appeared to transition to “Vivien,” but part of the reason was how much he/she hated her/his father:

This is such an insane take to me. I might be biased or misguided, sure, but if you have billions of dollars and you feel your kid slipping away into a different gender via the amorphous blob known as “the left,” couldn’t you cancel a few meetings or stop flying to World…

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Ted Bauer

I write about a lot of different topics, from work to masculinity to relationships and social dynamics, I.e. modern friendship. Pleasure to be here.