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Tech bros and hypermasculinity

TurquoiseTasticTurquoiseTastic Kerygmania Host
in Epiphanies
Staffroom discussion this breaktime - why is it that the current generation of techbros (Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg et al.) are leaning into what one might call a "Tate-lite" vision of masculinity? Bill Gates, by contrast, perhaps not so much. But then he represents the previous generation. Why the change?

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  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    TurquoiseTastic wrote: »
    Staffroom discussion this breaktime - why is it that the current generation of techbros (Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg et al.) are leaning into what one might call a "Tate-lite" vision of masculinity? Bill Gates, by contrast, perhaps not so much. But then he represents the previous generation. Why the change?

    IT moved out of basements where geeks and nerds turned pizza and crisps into code and networks and into the boardrooms and money markets where the willy-wavers got into it.
  • TurquoiseTasticTurquoiseTastic Kerygmania Host
    edited November 2024
    But we've had IBM and Microsoft and Apple for decades, with the rich boardrooms to match. But Musk and Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel seem a lot more objectionable than Gates and Steve Jobs and suchlike.
  • stonespringstonespring Shipmate
    How are Bezos and Zuckerberg Andrew Tate lite? Because Bezos works out a lot, puts a carving of his wife whom he created in his ex wife with on the bow of his mega-mega-yacht, and launches penis shaped rockets?

    Because Zuckerberg has gotten into martial arts and was in a bizarre online challenge to a cage match with Musk that didn’t go anywhere and probably wasn’t ever intended to? Because Zuckerberg at one point allegedly would only eat meat if he hunted and butchered it himself?

    Aside from that, they seem like “normal”plutocrats and I don’t see them obsessing with the politics of aggrieved masculinity, authoritarianism, antifeminism, birth rates, etc, in the way Musk (and in a different way Thiel) have been.
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    TurquoiseTastic wrote: »
    But we've had IBM and Microsoft and Apple for decades, with the rich boardrooms to match. But Musk and Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel seem a lot more objectionable than Gates and Steve Jobs and suchlike.

    There's grey suit and white shirt and tie boardroom, and there's - erm - this testerone fuelled version.

  • Gamma GamalielGamma Gamaliel Shipmate
    Yes. And it is a cause for concern.
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