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Elon Musk may not have proven himself to be the brilliant scientist we all thought he was during the Obama administration, but he has proven one principle: money really can’t buy happiness. Nor can it buy charisma, maturity, empathy – or the love and respect of your children.

Yes, stop the press: Elon Musk has once again said something so scary (and controversial) that it caused his own flesh and blood to step forward and say, “Look, we’re only technically related.”

This time, it was the CEO of Tesla who offered to “give Taylor Swift a child” after the singer endorsed Kamala Harris’ presidential candidacy on Instagram following the vice president’s stellar performance at a debate earlier this week.

“Well, Taylor, you win. I’ll give you a child and protect your cats with my life,” Musk said on his terrible website. He probably thought this was a hilarious insult, but to me it reads more like a threat of sexual violence.

Musk’s daughter Vivian Wilson later wrote a post of her own (on Twitter/X competitor Threads, of course) calling Musk’s tweet “vile incel nonsense” – which, to be fair, it absolutely was.

“I have nothing to add to that, it’s just disgusting,” she said. “I just want to say to my viewers: don’t let people talk to you like that. It’s disgusting, degrading and incredibly sexist. You deserve better.”

I swear, there’s something new every week from this guy. If I were a billionaire, you’d never hear from me again. I’d chill in my life-sized Optimus Prime replica and never touch a Wi-Fi-connected device again (the Transformer would be steam-powered).

But not Mr. “Tony Stark in real life.” Musk is so chronically online – so obviously needy – that he would rather have the approval of his legion of anonymous 13-year-old trolls than that of his own child. But who can blame him? Who among us hasn’t betrayed our own family so we can spend our lives making unfunny memes on an irrelevant website? In its way, it’s Shakespearean.

But this is nothing new for Musk. The SpaceX owner has been very open about how Wilson’s gender transition was the catalyst for his shift to the right, deliberately referring to her as his “son” who he believes was “killed by the woke mind virus.” Imagine being so intolerant of your child’s identity that your name goes from being an internationally recognized abbreviation for the word “genius” to a synonym for “gullible loser.”

Luckily for Musk, he’s in good company (if your definition of “good” is “toxic rich people” whose terrible behavior has caused their children to hate them). Brad Pitt’s daughter Shiloh recently announced that she will be dropping the actor’s last name and going by “Shiloh Jolie” instead. Pitt’s son also made headlines in 2020 when he called his father a “world-class asshole” and “a horrible and despicable person” on Father’s Day, so it’s fair to say there’s no love lost there.

Jennette McCurdy’s mother was so pushy that the iCarly Actress wrote a book titled I am glad that my mother diedand she still spoke of her with more affection than Wilson has for Musk. Perhaps she will reconcile with him in the distant future, when he no longer poses such a clear and immediate threat to democracy—but I wouldn’t count on it.

Fortunately, Wilson was able to break free from her father’s influence at an early age, as was Drew Barrymore, who emancipated herself at the age of 14. Not everyone manages to shake off their overprotective parents so easily, such as Britney Spears, who had to fight for years to free herself from her father’s 13-year-long guardianship.

Musk has said and done many vile, disgusting – sometimes even dangerous – things. We know exactly what kind of person he is. But if there was ever any doubt, the fact that his own child is as appalled by him as the rest of us should be the deciding factor.

How he can live with the fact that he is so estranged from someone he should love, protect and accept no matter what, I really don’t know. It’s certainly no consolation, but unlike most children of disappointing parents, Vivian can at least take some comfort in the fact that she is far from alone in her feelings about her father.