- Grimes told his partner, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, “I can’t bear the hate. Please stop this. I know this is not your heart” after he tweeted that “pronouns suck.”
- Grimes told her to put down her phone and call her: “I love you, but please turn off your phone or give me a break [sic.]”
- The cultural conversation about people’s pronouns, and people who want to be referred to with pronouns like “he,” “she,” or “they,” has increased, but their tweets did not make it explicit that this was what the exchange was about.
- Grimes’ tweet has since been removed, but Musk is still live.
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Musician Grimes told his partner, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, to turn off their phone and that she “can’t stand the hate” in a tweet now removed, after she tweeted that “pronouns suck.”
Musk tweeted Friday night “pronouns suck.” The tweet is still live and came hours after he tweeted “Twitter sucks.”
—Elon Musk 🌹 (@elonmusk) July 25, 2020
Grimes responded minutes later, asking her to stop and call her: “I love you, but please turn off your phone or give me a break.” [sic.]”
“I can’t bear the hate. Please stop this. I know this is not your heart.”
His tweet has since been removed.
The now-deleted tweet in which Grimes replied to Musk.
Twitter / Elon Musk / Grimes
Musk also added a pink emoji to his Twitter name just before sending the tweet.
Grimes, whose real name is Claire Boucher, did not elaborate on her criticism of Musk’s tweet.
But pronouns, which are words like “she,” “they,” or “it,” have been increasingly discussed in recent years as LGBT activists and workplaces put more emphasis on asking for the preferred pronouns of people and use them.
People who are not binary, for example, may ask people to refer to them as “they,” or people who have noticed that their gender identity does not match how they were raised may change. the words they use to refer to them. they.
Amnesty International says that a preferred gender pronoun is “a consciously chosen pronoun that a person chooses to use to refer to their chosen gender.”
“It allows a person to accurately represent their identity in a way that is safe and comfortable for them, and lets others know what pronouns to use when talking about that person.”
The Human Rights Campaign says: “Nothing can be more personal than the way people refer to us through our name and pronouns. Using a person’s chosen name and desired pronouns is a form of mutual respect and basic courtesy. “
It’s unclear if the people’s own pronouns were what Musk was referring to in his tweets, but many Twitter users interpreted it that way.
—Alex (@Its_Revan) July 25, 2020
—Oren Soffer (@orensoffer) July 25, 2020
Grimes was asked in February if his baby and Musk’s were going to be a boy or a girl, and replied that “they can decide their fate and destiny.”
