'The Matrix' creator gets into Twitter spat with Ivanka Trump and Elon Musk over 'red pill' comment

<p>“The Matrix” co-creator Lilly Wachowski blasted Tesla CEO Elon Musk and White House adviser Ivanka Trump on Sunday for tweeting out a comment about taking the “red pill,”a common internet term popularized by the sci-fi film series.</p><p>Musk, who has been a vocal critic of California’s lockdown orders and threatened to move Tesla production to Texas, has been using Twitter to attack what he sees as government overreach during the coronavirus pandemic.</p><p> Shortly after tweeting that out, Trump responded, “Taken!” This prompted Wachowski, who co-wrote and co-directed the film trilogy with her sister, to respond “F--- both of you.”</p><p> "Take the red pill" is a reference in the blockbuster movie when the character Morpheus (Lawrence Fishburne) reveals to the protagonist Neo (Keanu Reeves) that he's been living in a computer simulation. Neo has a choice: Take a blue pill and go back to his life as usual, or take a red pill to learn the truth about his fake reality.</p><p>It has since been adopted on the right as a metaphor in internet subculture, and it usually refers to some conservative or men's rights groups beliefs that feminists and liberals often control the media and cultural narrative.</p><p>Meanwhile, the mother of Grimes,Sandy Garossino, also blasted Musk, the father of her daughter's newborn baby. In a now-deleted tweet Garossino accused him of "blaring men's rights activist bulls***" after he sent out the Red Pill comment.</p><p>Grimes gave birth to their son two weeks ago.</p><p>"If your partner went through a challenging pregnancy and childbirth in the last two weeks, and you were over 16 years old, would you be blaring MRA bulls*** on Twitter right now?' Garossino wrote.</p>