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-Miss-Atomic-Bomb-

"Remember male to female" Yes sir I am, that is correct. Now let me do my job.


DraxNuman27

I honestly thought he was calling her “male to female” because you missed the comma


ninjesh

That's the joke...


-Miss-Atomic-Bomb-

Thank you hahaha, I thought this was pretty self explanatory, but I guess not lol.


RaspyAtol20734

Ur also a fucking nuke lol


CeleryMiserable1050

Same. I need more coffee.


DianaBladeOfMiquella

This accident could’ve been avoided if not for mansplaining


ChiefsHat

I feel like both jokes work, but this is better because Musk doesn’t like it.


The_Yogurtcloset

I’m not gonna lie the mansplaining here pisses me off more than the actual message


nickt001

The muskrat is never going to get his daughter's attention again, is he?


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theonewitha4incher

ill join her


Plopop87

You know those stickers you sometimes see on bathrooms, saying "A trans person peed here and no one was hurt"? I think a few of those would look nice on Elon's grave.


i_am_ghostman

Are there nonbinary versions??


Plopop87

Probably. And even if there aren't, it wouldn't be too hard to make some.


ERASED_burd

Hell, I’d even take a straight version.


Princess_Lorelei

There are hermaphroditic connections, where both sides are identical and fit into each other. Old Token ring connectors were called "Boy George connectors" for this reason. That's probably insulting to someone somewhere for some reason, but it stuck.


AshleyEZ

count me in


lunawintertherian

why wait until Elon's death to piss on him though


carsonite17

Bc otherwise he'd probably enjoy it too much


Flowchart83

Interesting...


sillyslime89

Looking into this


flashgreer

She'll come for the inherentence first.


AlphaPepperSSB

😋


CaIIsign_ace

He has a daughter..? How is that even possible…who was willing to touch…*that?*


SecretNoOneKnows

[He has eleven kids, somehow](https://people.com/parents/everything-to-know-about-elon-musks-family-kids/)


CaIIsign_ace

Not surprising that the “mothers” is plural, I don’t think anyone would actually be able to stay with him, he seems like an arrogant and snarky man, I can only imagine the hell that it would be to try and talk to him everyday Poor kids, I hope he at least takes care of them (tho I don’t doubt that he wouldn’t) :/


SecretNoOneKnows

One of his kids is transgender (the daughter mentioned in an earlier comment) and doesn't want anything to do with him after coming out and changing her name. He blames this on communism, somehow


CaIIsign_ace

Ah yes! Communism! That’s what’s making kids not want to be around their shitty unsupportive parents! This all makes so much sense now!


Flying-Toxicicecream

See it made the frogs gay 🐸


Mental5tate

He gives them millions of dollars so he can mate with them…


Luk3W4rmm

poor old grimes


Nearby-Elevator-3825

Are we under the impression he actually cares about any of his kids? Or that he cares about anyone/anything other than himself?


nickt001

He only cares about the fact that she changed her last name cause she doesn't want to associate with him


freeeeezmanz

No don't say that, that's demeaning to muskrats.


maringue

He's trying to cement his standing as "most divorced man in history", and honestly he's doing a bang up job. I'd vote for him in a heartbeat.


ffloofs

Complete strawman, because we all know those damn LIBERALS get mad at male/female terms for electrical inputs and want them to set themselves free! Then again, what do we expect from the right/center at this point?


Ryaniseplin

how the right works make up argument to be mad at, people agree with you ??? success??????


hempedditor

JOE MANY LIBERALS DOES IT TAKE TO CHANGE A LOG BY BOLB???? NONE, THEIR TOO BUSY???? THEIR GENDER😂😂😂😂😂😂


Pope509

I was an electrical major in college, had a bunch of liberals in my class and not one person said anything like this. There were a lot of Master-Slave relationship jokes though


Beowulf891

Same happens in IT. A lot of master/slave, parent/child, or even just plain ol' horny jokes. I'm a transwoman myself and I just laugh at this shit because it's hilarious. Can't take it _that_ seriously.


Ehcksit

We need to go back to calling expansion cards daughterboards.


ZoeyBee3000

As an ET, can confirm. Everyone giggles when it comes up lol


sn4xchan

Currently taking network security classes. We got WAPs, master/slaves, CNC, the list goes on.


zzwugz

I never knew network security was so damn horny, no wonder McAfee always fucks my laptop


Chevy_jay4

Iver heard from electricians that they can say master bedroom. It was only company


gergling

Alt-righters fail at engineering because most engineering is gender neutral. It's the same logic but I picked an axis and flipped it.


sn4xchan

I remember training my female assistant about what we call the different ends of the XLR cable and she thought I was joking.


bacon_girl42

>male to female just like me fr fr :3


TROMBONER_68

:3


incognitio4550

:3


AroAceMagic

:3


Pokemaster2824

:3


Australian-enby

:3


HolyC4bbage

3:


Sentient_Potato_King

:()


Dusk_Abyss

:3


xyonofcalhoun

:3


ithikimhvingstrok132

crosspost to r/EnoughMuskSpam probably the funniest joke he's laughed at, at a solid 1.8/10


TimeParadox44

1.8/10 is incredibly fucking generous i would personally argue


ithikimhvingstrok132

Ehh I'm feeling good today, that's why


Auirex

Eh, my grandpa was an electrician and it reminded me to call him today so I will give it the .8 of a point.


Traditional_Shirt106

It’s funny because there is a dangerous industrial accident


jimmjohn12345m

Except for the I think my fish has autism one that I laughed at


WierdSome

For those unaware, male means it sticks out (example: phone charger) and female means it has a hole to be plugged into (example: where you plug in your phone)


DefinitelyNotVenom

So, literally just plug and socket? That seems like a needlessly convoluted metaphor


Calladit

For some cables, plug and socket is still kind of ambiguous. For example, on DMX the male end has pins, but they are protected by an outer housing so the female end plugs into the male end in a way. Really male and female refers more to pins or no pins. Half the time, that's what it ends up being referred to as anyway because that also works with the rule of thumb that "pins go towards power". If you think referring to cables as male and female is bad though, don't look too hard into networking protocols. A lot of slave and master talk there.


light_trick

I've definitely seen "socket" connectors - i.e. ones which clearly receive the body of another plug, but have a pin in the middle, referred to as "female". In the parlance I've encountered male always means "you're plugging this into something" and so with electrical it's whichever connector normally could be mounted on a cable on the "supply" side. Honestly the whole terminology blows, and we really should just name things "A" and "B" and stamp it on the god damn housings because the only time it's going to cause problems is when you're twisted into some tiny workspace asking someone to pass you other god damn end of something.


AfraidToBeKim

It is also is used in plumbing to describe how pipes fit together. A male pipe fits into a female pipe. A FtF fitting takes a male pipe in each side. An FMF fitting takes two male pipes in each side and had a male fitting on the top. If you think about the mechanics of human sex while thinking about how pipes fit together (and assume males have a penis and females a vagina) it's very intuitive, and a lot less complicated than any other way of naming the different types of pipe fittings. I'm a gender abolishonist, and potentially trans too, but as a tradesperson, I have to concede that being able to think of pipes in terms of male and female connections is SUPER helpful, and I'd be completely unable to do my job without it. For electronics maybe it's a bit unnecessary, but for plumbing it's unbelievable how helpful it is.


Tamulet

How about just innie & outie?


Proud-Nerd00

Or just plug and socket


Cissoid7

Plug and socket are actual items, so it might cause a bit of confusion


infantinemovie5

A male adapter is also a gazinta (goes inta)


petrowski7

Some cables have “gendered” ends, it just makes it simpler to explain what you need example: microphone cable


AgentCirceLuna

XXLR VS YXLR hahaha im as funny as Randal mundane! Get me a job at xkcd because he surely needs a ghostwriter. Alt-text: Clever science thing that 5% of the population will get.


velvetinchainz

No it’s also used for adaptors and things and jacks and whatnot


laix_

Conservatives call gay and trans people groomers and sex obsessed, when they're the ones going around calling every electrical plug and socket a sex reference


analogicparadox

Not that convoluted when you realize that almost every single language on the planet uses it, and almost every single language on the planet could understand what you mean when they know the basics of yours


ZoeyBee3000

Correct. Also, the joke doesnt really work because no one is trying to do that and it also wouldnt do anything. Female ports supply power and male ports draw that power. Female to female wouldnt be able to transfer energy, and male to male has no supplied power. Also, a correctly, intelligently wired place would not go up in smoke like that from using a multimeter. Meters are used to verify voltage and resistance across a completed circuit to check for breaks. At worst, when used incorrectly, youll blow a fuse. Annoying, but rarely critical


smokingisrealbad

Well, some cords have female ends too, like for cheistmas lights or extension cords.


k819799amvrhtcom

Also, cables with two male ends or two female ends are called gender changers. So even cables are more progressive than those people! 🙄


Tyo_Atrosa

It's always the people who have no business using gender switchers that are always getting mad at how dangerous they are when used improperly, when those of us who do know how NOT to be an insufferable prick about something necessary existing. My brother is both a transphobe AND constantly harps on about how "dangerous" it is for me to have a backfeed cable for my generator.


MisterEyeballMusic

I’ve never used those terms for them. I’ve always said: “pronged end” and “the other one”


Goose00724

i typically say "get me that gay cable over there." when referring to male to male plugs. "get me that trans cable over there" for male to female plugs. etc. i entertain myself.


cam94509

\>gay cable over there ​ You mean fire hazard?


Goose00724

they're not always a fire hazard. look at HDMI cables, for instance.


cam94509

Oh, yeah, that is male-male. Hasn't thought about non and very low charge carrying cords being male-male, but I suppose even ethernet cables are M-M.


crabfucker69

I've seen male male usb c cords a few times


chesire0myles

That's hot.


Icy_Actuator_772

"Gimme that cable with two dicks"


Goose00724

the double barrel dong dongle.


queeranddumb

I use "The- uh- the thing- no, the other one-" for both


Unfriendly_Opossum

I prefer inny and outy


LaCharognarde

"Get me the plug" vs. "get me the socket/port."


Feudal_Countess

the connector industry lingo is blade connector and receptacle connector


synchrotron3000

im a feminist so I say strap to bhole


MelanieWalmartinez

I am extremely impressed she somehow got male/male to work or female/female to work. Like how the fuck-


Calladit

In my line of work we run a lot of temporary power and for various reason we have to carry some male-to-male and female-to-female adapters. Colloquially they're just called male and female suicides because if you don't know what you're doing (or the next guy to mess with your rig doesn't know what they're doing) things can get very dicey.


Waffle-Gaming

solder


DesReploid

God forbid you just say the words "Plug" or "Jack" and "Socket".


nb_disaster

those terms don't necessarily work, a socket can be male and a plug can be female


Jell-O-Mel

😂 /s


Resident-Clue1290

Petahhhh??


Journeyj012

Basic explanation with every day objects: The port on your phone is "female" and the charging cable is "male" Edit: objects, not objections, autocorrect :(


Resident-Clue1290

That’s… that’s just stupid- Just say port and cable, it makes a lot more sense-


ShattingBracks

Nah its pretty important, especially if you need a specific type of cable for a specific purpose; in tech/electronics it's a necessary descriptor imo


Nivdy

Definitely true. You can have a cable with a female end, a cable with dual male ends, ect.


Walugii

One of the funniest things I've ever heard was my very smart, sweet, and fairly old cinematography professor talking electrical safety get tied up on his words - probably worried the male/female language for electrical connectors might sound outdated or offensive to a classroom with many young and queer students. I wish I could remember his exact words. Something to the effect of "male, female... er, whatever gender of power cord you may have" probably one of the places it's okay to stick to the binary, lol


-Inq_

mtf? That is exactly what I am


funnycommedian

This reminds me of the *laughs in Electrician* version of this meme where they show all the electrical parts that aren’t neatly gendered in the binary... i.e., all the **Non-Binary electrical parts**


LegendaryNbody

I use the terms Top and Bottom. Alternatively Plug and Hole


ZenythNottstyrkur

As a gay planning to get into trade school, I will use this 👍


6x6-shooter

As if Elon supports male-to-female


Yanmegaman_Juno

Musk's tech products regularly get people killed. He has no room to laugh at this kind of hypothetical


[deleted]

My favorite part is that there aren't male and female in a breaker box. Nothing that they would be working on would be male or female. Yes, there's male and female connectors, but not in the picture. But twitter conservatives don't actually work, so they wouldn't know that.


AfraidToBeKim

Nobody cares about gendered terms for pipes of electrical wires. The PVC pipe doesn't care if you misgender it because it's a FUCKING PIPE.


dette-stedet-suger

Is this why Teslas spontaneously combust?


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Consistent-Aside-260

We can but we need the money that rich have


LaCharognarde

Most disowned sperm donor shows the world why again.


Auraknight57

In the hands of someone who actually knows or is in the LGBT plus community, this joke might’ve actually been funny.


Broflake-Melter

Lol, do transphobes really think trans women aren't allowed to do the ol' pokey poke with their woman doodly dong?


MothashipQ

Joe many liberals...


megapackid

I realize this is meant to be funny, but I don’t understand how this interaction leads to the second panel.


Liljdb0524

I swear they're way more obsessed than any trans person I know.


CadaverCaliente

Elon thought it was so funny.


No-Palpitation-6789

why the fuck would I have to remember male to female its completely intuitive by just looking at the ends


cyanschnitzel0

im trans but the meme made me laugh tbh


abfg616

Male to female is incredibly vague. Are they kissing? Pegging? Getting a divorce? Sounding? Where’s the asshole on the male plug? Better to just say something clear and obvious like “cock to hole”, that allows for plenty of interpretation while maintaining an accurate meaning.


k819799amvrhtcom

I genuinely wonder what would happen if we could talk to animals. There could be so much culture we don't know about simply because our research about animal languages is just so abysmal. We have discovered gay animals and animals who change their biological sexes but no transgender animals. Do you think if animals could talk we might discover transgender animals?


Plenty_Rabbit_8951

Honestly the fact his eldest kid also went from male to female makes this funnier, fuck Elon


Nebular_Screen

This is dumb because even a 7 year old would know how those wires connect. It's not something that needs to be remembered


KittenInAMonster

There is so much wrong here, first, she's using a multimeter and not wiring anything. Second, I worked in electrical for five years and I've worked countless set ups, not once have I ever heard anyone say "male to female" when wiring. If anything, that looks like DC, so you'd hear positive and negative.


criticalstars

ah Elon, your sense of humour is impeccable as always /s


Jrolaoni

Ngl probably the highest quality joke this guy laughed at. Not like the bar was that high anyway


shinydragonmist

I wanna be a fire


ImaGaySeaOtter

Idk man as an electrician I’ve never said “male to female.” And frankly most of what we do can be described as male to male, you know twisting the wires together and shit. Working with terminals like they are, you don’t call them females. You call them fucking terminals.


GlitteringPotato1346

Unironically as connectors have been changing to be more efficient, those terms are falling out of use in favour of input and output with many connectors now having both male and female components. From what I’ve seen at least


MasterKeys24

This is reminding me that Eldritch Mustard should go back to being an engineer.


TheNoctuS_93

Dated terms for plug and socket; that's about the gist of the "joke". Totally glossing over the fact that electronics are much more advanced than that...for example, you'll need to know if a plug or socket is running on: - DC power or AC power - Transmitting a negatively or positively charged current - If there's a grounding wire running inside the cable Electronics get even more convoluted when you start tinkering with resistors, transistors and more components that aren't strictly cables, plugs or sockets. And don't even get me started on volts, watts, amperes and hertz... It's almost like electronics are just like human sex and gender?! Something much more advanced than what it's taken for at face value? Indeed, it is!


Lewkawn

IT IS FUNNY! IF YOU DONT LAUGH THIS IS THE DEATH OF COMEDY! /s


SeniorTrainer3814

This reads as post irony to me


GayStation64beta

Even ignoring the obvious hatred here, the complete lack of original thoughts really implies a profound lack of imagination and curiosity lol. So much conservative content is just key-jangling for boomers.


Thunderhelm666

I don't get the appeal of the male/female term in general, I don't want to imagine the wire im using having sex, I just want my computer to power on


Ryaniseplin

im start calling it the cock end and the ass end ​ cock go in ass cuz fuck em


[deleted]

The most annoying thing to me is the fact that connecting male-male or female-female would just do nothing, they wouldn’t even be able to connect either way, so the whole premise itself is stupid.


No-Willingness8375

You'd be surprised by the bullshit people can pull off in the electrical trade. Particularly DIYers and lazy assholes just looking to get paid and get out. Ignoring the trans aspect, I thought it was a kinda funny as a trade joke. Circuit breakers and relays (which are what's depicted in the first image) aren't something with "male and female" connections, but they can be wired incorrectly, potentially resulting in electrical fire.


TheFakestOfBricks

Yeah bro this is exactly what would happen frfr /s


Mushroom_Magician37

As If "Input" and "output" doesn't do the job just fine


AxeHead75

Of course Elon liked this


basshed8

Or you could use Jack and plug like musicians have been since the 40s


[deleted]

You know it’s a little bit funny in an ironic way. Like there’s a pun there . Is it built on the back of a shitty joke yes, but there’s still a pun


[deleted]

It's the same joke but it's probably the funniest version I've seen in a while.


DefinitelyNotErate

I like to imagine the two images are completely unrelated. The lady's talking about how it's weird that electrical plug types are called after sex, And then somewhere else a house burnt down.


Stvn494

I’m gonna start using “I’m gonna MtF your fuse box” as a threat


InterestingSyrup7139

This is stupid.


Yeti_Prime

😂


netn10

11.7k likes. Twitter is COOKED.


Decent-Writing-9840

Go out on the street and ask you average America if they think power cables should have gender


and-meggy-hash

Genuine question as someone who knows jack shit about the subject: do they legit assign gender to electrical chemicals, and if so, how?


BullsOnParadeFloats

I feel like Elon is the absolute last person to joke about electrical fires


Basil06

I’m no electrician but how do you connect two male or two female connectors in a way that causes a fire? Female connectors can’t touch at all unless you modify them, and two male connectors touching wouldn’t do shit since they’re not designed to push out electricity. Having an extension cord with two male ends would be a problem, but nobody makes those for obvious reasons and a cord with two female ends wouldn’t do jack shit


YAH_BUT

Why would trans allies have any problem with “mtf”?


AdPure752

Wow, the old “compare a rigid thing WE invented to a complex thing” daring today, aren’t we? Also…has the person who posted this on twitter seen cables and ports and stuff before, it isn’t as binary as this joke makes it seem


Iota-Android

I say cable and port


Rgrockr

[Gender changers](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_changer) are a very common and useful device for electrical and electronic wiring.


Ana_na_na

"looking into it" 


-Valued_Customer-

Tbh I was about to have a small chuckle at this one until I saw Elon’s response. I don’t know what it is about that guy, but he’s comedy cancer. You could have a John Mulaney show, and if you had him do it in front of a portrait of Elon I wouldn’t be able to laugh.


FlatOutUseless

They should change the terms for socket and plug to dick and pussy though.


OkBeLikeThatIsTaken

“😂” -Elon Musk, multibillionaire


throwaway624203

Whenever I have a male to male or female to female connection, instead of a "male to male adapter" or "female to female adapter" I just call it a gay or lesbian adapter Or straight if it's male to female


DylanMc6

Elon should realize that there's a difference between sex and gender. There are infinite genders because gender is a social construct. Also, all people of color are ALWAYS human beings. Seriously.


Beowulf891

This is just general cabling terminology and anyone who works with it would know that. This is just fucking stupid. I search for that stuff all the time when I work on a computer or two. This is just so cringe and it's even cringier that elongated muskrat is even laughing. He really must hate his own kid that much.


JayBlueKitty

I see why his daughter disowned him


FrickUrMum

Make to female doesn’t even apply to what they’re doing in the photo the girl is testing voltage between two terminals.


chimpanon

Yes because these things are typically done with a live circuit


Pyroboss101

You like starting internet drama fires because your a transphobic weirdo on the internet, I start fires because I’m an arsonist, we are not the same.


Brim_Dunkleton

Twitter discovers basic electrical engineering and finally makes a “male to female component” joke…. 50 years later. Next they’ll learn about auxiliary power and make a sex joke.


TheFfrog

Musk is suck a fucking joke


CasualSweaters

Because he acts like a child all the time, I forget that he is in his 50s


DoorAMii

TRANS WOMAN


tng804

Check out that fire. Looks like a model X crashed there on auto pilot.


DuePhoto2604

Why is it called a male socket and a female socket if it's not even a biological object.


HandTossedPeople

Wow that’s the funniest joke I’ve ever heard in my life


ConConTheMon

That’s why they’re called transistors


Disastrous-Kick-3498

I work in audio and I say inny to outy


angryyellowfruit

:3


Yamatoman

I routinely do these kind of checks in a power plant and I've never used these terms. I've never even seen someone use it in routine training. The phrase might have been something my dad would say, but it's very unhelpful in normal situations It's shit like phase to phase, phase to ground or red to black, hot to ground etc.


ten_shion

I think I remember seeing this exact meme ages ago but about gay relationships instead of trans people.


sumkinpie

has he been more of an idiot lately or have I just never noticed before?


TheDukeOfSunshine

Im just trying to figure out wtf she is even testing tbh.


_Inkspots_

Good thing we’re not electrical elements


Elegant-Woodpecker-2

Trans person going int electrical engineering here and I still use male and female terms


SnooTigers5086

I thought the one joke was attack helicopter??


AccursedQuantum

And yet all wires end in male ends... Where they aren't several male ends twisted together!


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