Grimes explicitly said she wanted to raise her child w/o revealing the gender. This was very important to her. Almost immediately, Musk revealed the sex of the baby against her will. Y’all laughed but it wasn’t funny.
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Grimes said the name of her child was based on a plane that she loved b/c it had no weapons or defenses. Musk almost immediately countered by talking about how it’s military. He either tricked her into a name or was publicly mocking how she saw her child’s name.
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When Musk mocked pronouns, he wasn’t just being genetically transphobic. He was directly attacking how Grimes has publicly, repeatedly, talked about her gender-neutral parenting priorities.
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My larger point is: Grimes seems like a person that is conscious of & deeply wrestling w/ gender identity for her child & possibly herself. This is a big thing for her. And her partner repeatedly dragged her for it during her pregnancy & now her recovery. That’s not funny.
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We know Musk abused his first wife. And now we see public, repeated proof that he’s abusing his partner largely based on her support of trans issues & y’all keep laughing.
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How am I supposed to see this as a trans person other than y’all think transphobic abuse is funny? Stop dismissing what’s happening as “Grimes drew the line at misgendering lol.” No, Grimes is being harmed for being trans-supportive, & that is NOT laughable.
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Whatever I think of Grimes personally (& it isn’t good) I have nothing but support for someone that is wrestling w/ what gender identity means & trying to bring up her child in a way less harmful to marginalized genders. We should be supporting that, not mocking it.
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If any other celebrity was publicly humiliated by her own partner for being a trans-supportive parent, we’d call that out. But somehow it’s ok if the victim is Grimes? Yeah. I’m side eyeing hard here.
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Grimes has a lot to answer for but finally standing up when her partner attacks her one too many times is not surprising to me as a survivor myself. There’s a pattern here.
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And btw I made this mistake, too! I laughed along. It was only when I stepped back & looked at each event as moments in a pattern that I went
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Heyo this thread is taking off & my anxiety is spoilt so I’m going to go watch some French Canadian clowns for a while & ignore this
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If your response to this thread is to climb into an abuse survivor’s DMs & say they deserve abuse for saying abuse is bad, maybe reconsider your life choices, since you clearly suck as a human being.
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Y’all I am so sorry about this but I misgendered Grimes, apologies for using incorrect pronouns https://twitter.com/iemonayd/status/1287230699527905281?s=21 …https://twitter.com/llemonayd/status/1287230699527905281 …
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