Katy Faust: Elon Musk is a modern polygamist

Katy Faust, founder of Them Before Us, joins Emily to discuss Elon Musk’s relationship with Ashley St. Clair. Faust argues that Musk’s personal life amounts to modern polygamy, and sets a dangerous example.

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[leowoning]

It shows that many women are perfectly OK to get a child from a very rich person and even are willing to share him before they secure the relationship. Nothing new under the sun.

[KevinBarnes]

Emily is quickly becoming my favorite interviewer. Lots of different takes from different people at the edges of important conversation as well as at the heart.

[herodotus]

This isn't a new phenomena. Financially successful and/or powerful men are very attractive to all manner of women and therefore often beget many children.

[garychartier]

I'm unclear why it makes sense for us to spend time on Mr Musk's personal life.

[momhudec]

As a super involved 74-year-old grandma who sees children and grandchildren almost daily, I can tell you that younger people are no longer concerned with issues of this nature. They see so many persons of authority with such relativistic ideas of morality that concerns of this type are just the boy crying wolf for the trillionth time.

[manuelluna]

She is talking to Conservative Christians, because when morality declines, historically society also declines.

[marg]

The reason this is fair game for discussion is because many on the right like to critique the family structure of those on the left (childless cat ladies, etc ), yet are totally silent with the second most powerful figure on the modern right.

[marianam]

Wait a second. If musk was a friend or a priest or had any sort of standing related to moral authority I would agree. But he is not. It would be nice if he found peace, but not required certainly for my purposes. And also, I have never heard Musk give his opinion on the family life of anyone else. It is completely irrelevant.

[anuragsinha]

That's like half of Hollywood, half the NBA and half the NHL.

[grahamstull]

Emily is perhaps the best journalist out there surfing the waves of culture war and ideological shifts.

[YesBruv]

Elon Musk is an excentric person with Autism. He is not the norm. So sure do not celebrate the parts of him you dont like so much, but dont berate or demonise either. Live and let live.

[Madstsone]

Wait, he's having kids through IVF and not the ol' fashioned way? That is weird

[honestyisadyingvirtue]

Am I supposed to feel sorry for these mothers, especially this last one, who knew how he was, chased him down and because she thought she was going to change him, she now wants to air their laundry out for the world to see? I will save my sympathy for mothers who at least try to choose better & don't try to lock down a rich man with a kid, only to make the kids pay for something she took part in too.

[terrywbreedlove]

I will let Musk deal with his own personal life. I want to see him continue the work. President Trump set him out to do with DOGE.

[nedhill]

This headline is ridiculous. Musk hasn't to my knowledge had multiple wives at the same time, which is polygamy.

[seaof]

30:29 Katy Faust us 100% correct on the emotional disconnect with his son. Excellent interview

[burnttoast]

I mean he has the money to afford that many relationships and kids. Why are we thinking about how elon lives in his bedrooms.

[Nill]

Katy Faust is a clear thinking force of nature. Every single thing she says we internally know is right, best for souls. Anybody going w ‘well for some people she needs to understand bla blah’ is lying to themselves, or in case of predatory grifters, just lying to us.

[ahkoo]

Its been pretty obvious Elon wants to have a ghengis khan type lineage legacy.
I think its gross, but at least he has the means to provide for basically infinite kids.
What i do find the most amusing is the complete lack of accountability on the women's side, you signed up for getting knocked up by a billionaire, and you thought you would be the one, just like the last one, the one before that and the one before that... from someone with a clear and obvious history.

How about talking about that aspect of this story, women's desire to hook up with a man that they absolutely know will not be an active father.

[glennmitchell]

My father was absent a great deal, deployed on Navy cruises, then a traveling salesman. Am I at risk of becoming trans? I'm 65 years old. Such a change at this time in my life would be a shock. I'd probably have to redecorate.