# Now that Elon Musk has bought Twitter - now the Pit edition (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** elon-musk\ **Created:** [August 13, 2024, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634 "2024-08-13T00:48:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 111
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2025, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2222 "2025-04-18T23:22:46Z")
I heard last night that Musk’s children are disproportionately male. (I really don’t care enough to find out for myself) I do know that sexed bull semen exists, and I am also aware that research is being done in doing this for people, to reduce the chance of some sex-linked diseases. When I was in pharmacy school, we had to write up a plan to develop and market a new drug. The younger students had serious things like oral insulin or artificial blood, and us older students came up with joke products. I had Xanthrix, a pill that made one’s hair blond; one of my friends had Insync, which made men want to dance; and another had Gender-Aid, which requires no further explanation. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2223 "2025-04-19T01:26:31Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I heard last night that Musk’s children are disproportionately male. (I really don’t care enough to find out for myself) I think he sires most of his kids with IVF, and shitty google AI says that you can screen the embryos to identify gender before choosing one. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2224 "2025-04-19T02:03:12Z")
I’ve heard that too. Gender selection of embryos has been available for a long time, and is obviously very controversial. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2225 "2025-04-19T02:08:17Z")
Which is doubtless a big part of why he claims his trans daughter is dead. Vivian Wilson is on record saying that Elon paid for her to be born male. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2226 "2025-04-19T05:15:03Z")
So, she identifies as female to give him the finger? I hope no doctor goes near her with a syringe or knife until she’s had a full medical and psychiatric evaluation. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2227 "2025-04-19T05:29:58Z")
No, but nice hijack; inappropriate _and_ false. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2228 "2025-04-19T05:38:18Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I hope no doctor goes near her with a syringe or knife until she’s had a full medical and psychiatric evaluation. Ya really think doctors provide gender affirming care at the whim of the patient??? ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2229 "2025-04-19T05:58:09Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > So, she identifies as female to give him the finger? I hope no doctor goes near her with a syringe or knife until she’s had a full medical and psychiatric evaluation. Musk by himself is already more than awful enough for the thread, we don’t need you being awful too. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2230 "2025-04-19T07:22:58Z")
Watching it, it seems he was on a team in an obscure early Tournament that came in second due to their expensive internet connection, but which no actually good players competed in. It sounds as though Elon is to gaming what Trump is to golf. I fully expect him to buy an E-sports league just so he can compete and surprise, surprise, win the championship every year. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2231 "2025-04-19T19:23:28Z")
You’d be surprised at what some doctors will do as long as the cash is green. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2232 "2025-04-19T19:45:44Z")
Cite? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2233 "2025-04-19T19:49:51Z")
How about the doctor who “treated” Michael Jackson’s drug habits with ever more drugs and right into the grave? Lotta similar stories out there. Heck, your bog standard Appalachian “pill mill” doc was the same thing, and didn’t need no steenkin’ rich celebrities to fund their operations. They looked at their medical license as a license to print money in the form of oxycontin / oxycodone scripts. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2234 "2025-04-19T20:36:06Z")
There are zero doctors - and I mean zero doctors - performing sex change operations on the patient’s whim. That’s a fantasy concocted by transphobes who want to convince you your kindergartener is going to get snapped up off the playground at recess and his dick chopped off because a teacher heard him say he liked the color pink. Insinuating that Vivian Wilson became trans just to get back at her dad is insulting to all trans people. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2235 "2025-04-19T20:45:46Z")
Please allow me to clarify something. My last few comments were intended to be directed towards the notion of musk using licensed doctors for the “harem”'s IVF procedures, sex selective sperm filtering or abortions, etc. Or for providing him lots and lots of mind altering substances for recreational purposes. I now see that I initially responded to a cryptic comment that was a reply to somebody going on about misguided gender affirming care and musk’s now transitioned daughter. The assertion there being that doctors are routinely destroying kids’ lives for cash at the behest of misguided kids or misguided parents. I did not intend to have any of my comments connected to the trans sub-topic. At all. Sorry to have left a confusing trail here. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2236 "2025-04-19T21:30:39Z")
The idea that one kid is trans only to piss off Musk is ridiculous. It’s not like he doesn’t have other kids. A lot of them, actually. And nearly all of them aren’t trans. And they also hate his guts and aren’t shy about saying it. The only ones who can seem to abide him are the ones who haven’t reached school age yet, i.e. too young to know better. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2237 "2025-04-19T22:22:15Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > The only ones who can seem to abide him are the ones who haven’t reached school age yet, i.e. too young to know better. And then there’s Xevlar, who hasn’t had a choice since roughly the morning of December 4th. [![](https://i.redd.it/ngdy5r774tve1.png) ](https://i.redd.it/ngdy5r774tve1.png) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2238 "2025-04-19T23:11:40Z")
Go to Mexico or Thailand if you can’t find an American doctor who will do something. Also, how do you think the opiate crisis really got kick-started? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2025, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2239 "2025-04-19T23:23:16Z")
Well, wouldn’t you know who won the pony? [https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/musks-spacex-is-frontrunner-build-trumps-golden-dome-missile-shield-2025-04-17/](https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/musks-spacex-is-frontrunner-build-trumps-golden-dome-missile-shield-2025-04-17/) ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2025, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2240 "2025-04-20T06:54:06Z")
I love the naming of the “Golden Dome” missile defense system - it’s so quintessentially Trump. “We’ll take the Iron Dome and make it better! It’ll be gold instead of iron! So much more classy.” ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2025, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2241 "2025-04-20T17:31:58Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > So, she identifies as female to give him the finger? I hope no doctor goes near her with a syringe or knife until she’s had a full medical and psychiatric evaluation. [Moderating] This violates our Terms of Service in relation to debating trans people and trans rights: > [@](#): > > 1. Please do not state or imply that transgender people are mentally ill. We realize the question remains controversial. However, we’re not going to settle the matter here, and raising it tends to poison other discussion of transgender issues. Please keep your opinions on the subject to yourself. No warning issued at this time, but do not post any further speculation about the mental state of trans people. [/Moderating] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634.md?page=110) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634.md?page=112)