Vivian Wilson is interviewed in Teen Vogue. She is not a nepo baby — she’s been cut off from the sperm donor, Elon Musk, who contributed in a minimal way to her birth.
Wilson entered the public consciousness because of her father, but not for typical nepo baby reasons. (Before you ask, Wilson says she’s been financially independent from her father since she came out as trans in 2020, so you can stop sending her Venmo requests for thousands of dollars, something she says has happened before.) At the time, she was trying to disconnect herself from Musk, eventually writing in a 2022 petition to legally change her name that she doesn’t “wish to be related to [her] biological father in any way, shape or form.” Though she’d never publicly spoken about Musk before then, her attempt to distance herself from him is what ultimately drew her into the public eye.
“I have a sharp tongue,” Wilson tells Teen Vogue in her second-ever published interview. “When you spend all of COVID [lockdown] in online communities of queer people who are constantly getting into drama and trying to read each other, [you] learn how to make a response very quickly, and you learn how to be funny and snap at someone else in a comedic way…. Getting into fights with other queer teenagers — that’s how you learn how to be quick and witty.” Much like her father, Wilson is extremely online; unlike her father, she’s really good at it.
In my personal experience, this holds up: the gay and trans people I’ve known are all great conversationalists with a wicked sense of humor. She definitely did not inherit that from her terrible father.
I’m sympatico with her politics, and not Musk’s.
TV: Isaacson described your politics as “radical Marxism” in the book. Do you consider yourself a Marxist?
VW: I’m a leftist, not a Marxist. I describe myself by the things that I personally believe in and the things that I feel are pretty common sense, if you think about it for more than two seconds. I believe in [universal basic income]. I believe in free health care. I believe food, shelter, and water are human rights. I believe that wealth inequality is one of the biggest problems of the United States right now, especially of our generation. I feel like workers should be fairly compensated for the work that they do, and I don’t feel like wealth should be hoarded by these mega-billionaires who are the top 1%, who only have their own interests at heart. I’ve met some of these billionaires — they’re not very good people. I don’t think any of them are.
I don’t think that’s an unusual perspective, and I think most Americans would agree with that, if they weren’t poisoned by the lie that those goals are being stolen from them by immigrants and gay/trans people. It’s the position that all Democrats should take, except for the unfortunate fact that that party is led by people seduced by money and power.
Said it here before, the revolution is led by Teen Vogue, New Republic and Rollingstone. She seems to be doing alright despite the worst father in the world, good on her.
I’ve noticed that too. Transphobes tend to be humourless, and when they try to be funny it’s very laboured.
Trans people seem to be effortlessly witty and hilarious.
Also kudos to Teen Vogue for being the most unlikely yet consistently progressive outlet.
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Example:
https://transwrites.world/trans-derangement-syndrome/
Like all bigotry ends up being weird and pathological, but in my experience transphobes are the weirdest. Like they aren’t more evil than other flavors if bigots, and honestly there is lots of overlap between bigotry, but only with transphobes do you get people saying with a straight face that you need genital inspections for elementary school bathrooms. Like what kind of fucking freak thinks that’s OK or normal?
Remember a troll who very pointedly asked a trans woman what was in her pants during a troll wave on Bluesky. I laid down just how peepo creepo it is to open a conversation with a stranger about their genitals, asking if that was “normal” in his “normal” world. These are the sickos we’re up against.
I suppose that, as is reported, she is a product of IVF since the muskrat doesn’t want to touch or show any humanity for his ‘brood mares’. Maybe (not likely) that explains why she is decent, caring and displays good societal values. She is the opposite of the felon muskrat who is her biological father, EEWWW! I respect her very much. I want the felon muskrat to C.O.A.D.(tm) (Crawl Off And Die), soon.
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Reminds me of the old joke that I heard fitst in Adam Sandler movie.
Villain: bring it on. I eat little shits like you for breakfast.
Adam Sandler’s character: Wait, you eat shit for breakfast? Gross! Dude, seriously gross! Wtf?!
Sadly, even many that haven’t bought into the, “Oooh! Rich man is giving me money, what can I do for them, and against my constituents?”, have bought into the idea that the “people”, who they don’t have time to actually listen to, actually want all these rich f-ers to be in charge, don’t mind all the crap they pull, and they need to vote for the same lies as conservatives tell, because, what…. actually getting people to understand that they are lies, and they won’t fix any of the damn problems people use as stupid ass issues to vote on? We see this all the damn time, including from the recent traitor to the cause, who helped the GOP pass their horrifying budget – when confronted with the choice between holding your ground, and trying to explain to the public why, and what alternative you actually have, a) have no actual plan, and b) cave in, because you think what the public wants, more than real solutions, is to, “keep the government open”. Which, of course, just means handing the people wrecking it more power. Again, because… “We will somehow fix it in 4 years, despite the fact that the idiot(s) voting in favor of caving, whether he is on the side of the fascist, or just and idiot, with no clue how to do his job at this point, have no f-ing idea how to do this, and get rid of the crazies.”
Its like freaking congress has become a police department – there is a criminal gang of thugs, who all got hired, and are protected, by the police chief, who got elected by spamming the public with lies about how many dangerous criminals they plan to stop (and replace with new ones, with badges), and if you are a normal cop you either a) get fired, b) get slandered, then fired, c) mysteriously shot by someone on a simple case, d) end up quitting, or e) duck your head, and slowly, bit by bit, convince yourself that such corruption is what the public wants, you can’t really do anything about it, or inform the public, if they don’t, and.. eh, you are still arresting criminals, even if a few innocents get dragged to jail too. ‘Eventually’ we can fix it, right?
Yeah, no. Not by constantly deciding that the bad, horrible, or outright gangster shit all the increasingly compliant people around you are doing is “normal”, and you hit the point where you both a) have no idea how the hell to reverse course, and b) you are so far in that you literally do not know what normal even looks like any more. You’re just doing your job right, and doing your best to keep things from getting worse, right? F@#$
Apparently Elno rage-tweeted transphobic shit the whole day after the Teen Vogue interview. Suck shit, Elno.
rorschach – It’s just not Tesla that’s being publicly owned while rapidly losing financial value.