Where’s the Female Elon Musk?

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Elon Musk took the $175 million he made from the sale of his PayPal shares and started SpaceX. He wanted to disrupt how space travel was done and go to Mars. Soon after starting SpaceX, Elon was a co-founder of Tesla Motors. He thought the internal combustion engine had served its purpose, and it was now time for greener electric cars. And whether you like Elon or not, you have to tip your hat to the man. His reusable rockets have revolutionized space travel, and he, more than anyone else, is responsible for the mainstreaming of electric cars unfolding before our eyes.

Now an uncomfortable question. Where is the female Elon Musk? When I think of the companies that have reshaped or are in the process of reshaping our world—Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Netflix, YouTube, Uber, Airbnb, Etsy, NVidia, Coinbase, CRISPR, Palantir, AeroVironment, Boston Dynamics, 3D Systems, Redwood Materials, QuantumScape, Helion Energy, etc., etc.—I can’t think of a single one that was founded or co-founded by a woman. Why? We are told by our woke overlords that women can do anything men can do. But apparently, they aren’t nearly as good as men at starting companies that push the boundaries of human knowledge and rattle the status quo.

Maybe it’s the patriarchy holding back women entrepreneurs? Maybe angel investors have an implicit bias against women visionaries? But then again, Elizabeth Holmes had no problem raising money for Theranos. And it’s not as if women don’t have their own money to back whatever promising business ideas they come up with. Marissa Mayer made $239 million during her tenure as CEO of Yahoo, and her current net worth is around $1 billion. So what has Mrs. Mayer done with the ungodly amount of wealth that has come her way? Is she doing something to disrupt the healthcare sector? Has she started a company that promises to make housing way more affordable for the average American? What about higher education? Is she doing anything to challenge a system that forces a student to spend $100K in order to get a worthwhile credential? Nope. She started a company called Sunshine, and it’s working on an app to help people use and manage their iPhone and Google contacts. Oh, boy! Just what we needed. A new and improved contacts app.

My point here isn’t to rag on women. I’m just frustrated. For at least 50 years now our news media have been gushing over the “first woman” this and the “first woman” that. Every movie trailer I see has women beating the crap out of men or mocking them for their incompetence. Every female character I see on television is not only “strong and independent” but also “stunning and brave.” We have more women than ever before running our big city police departments and our big city education systems. And there have never been more college presidents, newspaper editors, television executives, movie producers, CEOs, board members, army generals, department heads, district attorneys, mayors, governors, representatives, and senators with female plumbing. And, yet, despite the rise of the matriarchy, everything still sucks. Crime sucks. Education sucks. News sucks. Housing sucks. Banking sucks. Healthcare sucks. Government sucks. And political discourse sucks. And I just want to know why. Why haven’t women saved us from toxic masculinity like our woke overlords said they would?

Okay, groovy freedomist, that’s all I got. Let me know what you think when you get a chance. Peace.