{"id":170961,"date":"2023-08-31T04:23:54","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T09:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/grimes-says-she-asked-elon-musk-why-hes-so-obsessed-with-trans-people"},"modified":"2023-08-31T04:23:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T09:23:54","slug":"grimes-says-she-asked-elon-musk-why-hes-so-obsessed-with-trans-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/grimes-says-she-asked-elon-musk-why-hes-so-obsessed-with-trans-people","title":{"rendered":"Grimes Says She Asked Elon Musk Why He\u2019s So Obsessed With Trans People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/grimes-says-she-asked-elon-musk-why-hes-so-obsessed-with-trans-people2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Electronic music artist, <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/grimes-split-royalties-deepfake\" class=\"\">generative AI enthusiast<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/elon-musk-grimes\" class=\"\">on-off Elon Musk partner<\/a> Claire \u201cGrimes\u201d Boucher seems to want to build bridges between the tech billionaire and the trans community he\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/elon-musk-pride-month-tweet-likes-anti-trans\" class=\"\">alienated so relentlesslly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a wide-ranging <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/grimes-big-interview\/\" class=\"\">new interview with <em>Wired<\/em><\/a>, Boucher mentioned that she\u2019d had a \u201cbig, long conversation\u201d with her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/2022\/03\/grimes-cover-story-on-music-and-mars\" class=\"\">kids\u2019 dad<\/a> about \u201cthe trans thing,\u201d and came to a similar conclusion as she made when <a href=\"https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/i-love-you-but-please-turn-off-your-phone-or-give-me-a-dall\" class=\"\">publicly replying<\/a> to one of his transphobic tweets: that bigotry isn\u2019t in his \u201cheart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was like, \u2018I want to dissect why you\u2019re so stressed about this,\u2019\u201d the artist, who also goes by the letter <em>c<\/em>, told the magazine. \u201cGetting to the heart of what Elon says helps me get to the heart of what other people\u2019s issues are, because it\u2019s this \u00fcber guy situation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic music artist, generative AI enthusiast and on-off Elon Musk partner Claire \u201cGrimes\u201d Boucher seems to want to build bridges between the tech billionaire and the trans community he\u2019s alienated so relentlesslly. In a wide-ranging new interview with Wired, Boucher mentioned that she\u2019d had a \u201cbig, long conversation\u201d with her kids\u2019 dad about \u201cthe trans [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-media-arts","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}