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A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein

The Incoherent Sexual Politics of the Right

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein

Matt Bernstein

News, News Commentary, Society & Culture

4.9 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Elon Musk just (allegedly) had his thirteenth child with a fourth woman — a 26-year-old “conservative” influencer named Ashley St. Clair. In a past version of the “traditional family values” party, this might’ve been a career-ending event. Today, it hardly generates coverage. In this episode, Moira Donegan and Adrian Daub (of In Bed With The Right) help me make sense of the right’s impossibly contradictory code of sexuality: is MAGA the movement of the hot, virile new youth, or is it the movement attempting to ban contraception and abortion? Are women supposed to spit on that thang or dress modestly? And what does Elon’s public humiliation of Ashley St. Clair reveal about a woman’s place in the New Right? Listen to bonus episodes on Patreon! Thanks to today's sponsors! Protect yourself online, wherever you go. Get a discount on NordVPN at https://www.nordvpn.com/fruity.  Get 15% off a cuter, more sustainable way to clean at https://www.blueland.com/fruity.  Me on Instagram. A Bit Fruity on Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The left doesn't want you to spit on that thing.

0:08.5

Hello, hello, and welcome back to A BitFruity, the podcast where my philosophy on sex has always been the same.

0:17.9

You should have as much of it as you want, especially if it's gay. Earlier this

0:22.6

month, a 26-year-old, semi-successful right-wing social media influencer named Ashley St. Clair made

0:31.0

an announcement. Ashley is perhaps best known for her anti-trans children's book called Elephants Are Not Birds,

0:40.3

which, you guessed it, is about a young elephant who is tricked into thinking he can become a

0:46.7

bird. Elephants Are Not Birds is published by Brave Books, a right-wing book publisher

0:52.9

that, quote, partners with people of moral integrity

0:56.6

to teach complex Christian and conservative values. And so, on Valentine's Day, just a few days

1:04.2

ago, Ashley St. Clair's announcement to the world was this. Moria, would you like to read it so

1:10.1

we can get like a woman?

1:11.8

The feminine touch, yeah. Five months ago, I welcomed a new baby into the world. Elon Musk is the

1:19.2

father. I have not previously disclosed this to protect our child's privacy and safety, but in recent

1:24.7

days it has become clear that tabloid media intends to do so, regardless

1:28.8

of the harm it will cause. I intend to allow our child to grow in a normal and safe environment.

1:35.1

For that reason, I ask that the media honor our child's privacy and refrain from invascing reporting.

1:40.6

And at the bottom, it says, media, Brian Gilclitch, Digital Strategy Limited, Brian at

1:46.1

Digital Strategy Limited.com.

1:48.4

That was really good.

1:51.1

That was good.

1:51.9

You're ready to, you're ready to play the Ashley St. Clair biopic.

1:55.5

Yes, absolutely.

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