Stop the Transphobia
https://finance.yahoo.com/m/2f5a55e3...elon-musk.html
"The world’s richest man’s poor sense of humor is exposing how much of a boys’ club tech still is.
In an Oct. 29 tweet, Musk proposed opening a school called the Texas Institute of Technology and Science. In a thread, he added, “it will have epic merch, universally admired.” When someone earnestly suggested swapping “technology” and “science” so the latter came first (on the premise that “technological breakthroughs almost always follow scientific breakthroughs”), Musk shot back, “Nope, T is def first.”
Why? Because if you swapped the letters, the acronym would no longer be TITS.
No, the Tesla and SpaceX founder wasn’t sincerely talking about setting up a university (despite what entrepreneurs, political scientists, US senators and politicians, and professional athletes thought). Yes, he was making a boob joke.
“I heard sexualizing women is a top-down, systemic issue in tech. Might be wrong though idk,” Cher Scarlett, one of the leaders of the AppleToo anti-harassment group at Apple, tweeted sarcastically in response.
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I'm literally shaking right now. The author is making a horrifical transphobic implication that only women have tits. There are plenty of folks who identify as men who have 34D cup sizes. When will the bigotry end?????
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