I didn’t think anything could lower my opinion of Elon Musk further, but – much like his Boring Company – the man really knows how to drill down into the bedrock of unpleasantness.
Over the last week, we’ve seen his name pop up in the Epstein files, with him taking the time on Christmas Day 2012 to beg Epstein to let him visit his pedophile island. Apparently, Musk wanted to enjoy “the wildest party” the modern era’s most notorious child abuser had to offer.
Logistics prevented him from actually making the trip (well, that or he’s too annoying even for a gang of monstrous pedophiles to hang out with), but we have all seen him pleading to be allowed on Epstein Island in black and white.
Musk has spent the last week in damage control mode, so you might expect him to avoid saying anything insanely creepy about women and girls for a while. Well, think again! In a bizarre statement, one @pubwanghaf said: “It breaks my heart to say but in order to save this country we are probably going to have to do things that make women sad :(“
True words
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 4, 2026
Elon’s reply? “True words”.
What would “make women sad”?
What in The Handmaid’s Tale are these bozos referring to? We honestly have no idea, though they refer to “things” that would universally affect all women in America, which narrows it down to suffrage and reproductive rights.
I’m betting Musk is tacitly referring to his long-held fear of declining birth rates, which he insists “will lead to mass extinction of entire nations.” He’s also said we need to be “worried about population collapse”, and that “If there aren’t enough people for Earth, then there definitely won’t be enough for Mars.”
Putting all that together, it seems at least plausible that what Musk agrees will “make women sad” is an effort to encourage (or even force) women to pump out babies.
There’s a good way and a bad way to raise birth rates. The good way would be to legislate increased maternity leave, lower house prices to give younger couples a sense of security, lower the cost of living, and raise wages across the board to make single-income families economically plausible.
But, c’mon, Musk doesn’t want to do any of that stuff. So it’s probably down the “bad way” route, in which women are discouraged from getting jobs, and access to contraception and birth control is limited, trapping women at home caring for babies they might never have wanted in the first place, and can’t afford to raise securely.
