June (or JUNlPER)

Okay, we have Mr. Fruity, Miss Onion, and Miss Former Fox News.

Hello, hello, and welcome back to A Bit Fruity.

In February 2025, I made an episode of this podcast called The Incoherent Sexual Politics of the Right, which centered largely around a then 26-year-old conservative influencer named Ashley St.

Clair.

Ashley had spent years building an online audience of over 1 million conservatives who followed her for her hot takes on transgender people, building the wall,

single mothers, the erosion of the traditional family, and all manner of right-wing slop.

Sorry, Ashley.

I gotta keep it real.

In 2021, Ashley wrote a transphobic children's book called Elephants Are Not Birds.

You can kind of guess what that's about.

Her conservative media career was ascendant.

Last February, though, Ashley's life had just taken a wild turn.

She'd announced to the world that she had just had a baby and that the father was Elon Musk.

At the time, Elon had essentially ghosted her, and Ashley took to Twitter to plead, Elon, we've been trying to communicate for the past several days, and you have not responded.

When are you going to reply to us?

My guest on that episode, Moira Donegan, said that Ashley made what was called a patriarchal bargain.

She offered her career and her body to a movement that promised her a secure place within its ranks.

But then it didn't.

In the years since then, things have taken turns that I personally did not expect.

Ashley went completely offline to raise her child and avoid harassment from Elon's legion of fanboys, amidst a custody battle that she is still fighting.