andrew tate's biggest victim isn't women—it's men
someone just got thunberged
When I started this community almost exactly a year ago, I promised to bring you posts that either make you feel better about yourself or better about the world, and to close out our magnificent year together, we have been gifted with a story that superbly accomplishes both.
Greta Thunberg has been delivering blows to misbehaved grown men for quite some time, but the queen of the clapback has outdone herself in a tiff with Andrew Tate that some twitter users are speculating could have helped led to his arrest. According to a Romanian newspaper, Tate and his brother had been under investigation since April when "a woman with American citizenship was being forcibly held at their residence" and some are wondering if the pizza boxes in his sad boy revenge tweets helped the authorities locate him. Authorities deny this, but hey a girl can dream.
Regardless of the specific details, over the last few days, Thunberg has been effortlessly roasting a man that I can only describe, as a slimier, and less attractive version of the worst guy you went to high-school with. I’ve talked about Tate before, albeit very sporadically, in an effort to spare your mental headspace and to deny him the one thing that gives him power: our attention. But Thunberg’s enchanting small dick energy response, a mere few hours before Tate’s mansion was raided, is one for the history books. In fact, her response has already made it in the hall of fame of the most viral tweets of all time. I can’t wait for my future child to learn about this in her contemporary history class.
Andrew Tate, a man who is so bad at attracting women that he is now under arrest for allegedly kidnapping them, is one of the most prominent influencers for young men. If you hadn’t heard about this triumphant weasel in quite some time, it’s because he was successfully deplatformed from every mainstream social media website for his hate speech towards women, until known misogynist Elon Musk reinstated his account in his noble quest to evaporate the last shred of serotonin left in our brains.
I’ve always found that the most effective argument against Tate wasn’t pointing out his indisputable disrespect for women, as much as how decrepit his advice is for young men. There’s something both sick and ironic about the fact that the most prominent male influencer giving advice to young men about how to get women is so revolting to the opposite sex, that he has to physically capture them, to keep them in his vicinity. It’s quite an impressive feat for a man that is this unalluring to women, to convince millions of men that has the key to seducing them.
That’s why I view men, rather than women, as the greatest victims of Andrew Tate. After all, it’s not women who are being scammed into spreading his content and lining his pockets with more money, it’s men. Tate is of course exploiting and degrading women, but it’s in the service of his larger con to manipulate and extract money from men. Sexism harms women surely, but what we’re not ready to admit is that misogyny also makes men more vulnerable to sexist predators too.
Male pain and suffering impacts women, and I’ve written about it at length, but the truth is that unexamined male sadness makes a lot of men, a lot of money. Jordan Peterson makes his living from men systemically breaking their own hearts, by selling millions of books and selling VIP meet-and-great for more than 200$ a pop. Alex Jones made a ridiculous $800 000 a day during CPAC. And now Tate, who describes himself as a “trillionaire”, has created an MLM, but just for the boys. And it’s worked wonders. He’s made his fortune off all this male pain, and as long as men can’t connect with women, he’ll keep profiting from it. Tate may claim to want to help men, but he has no vested interest in doing so. Why would he want to see men heal when his business model is predicated on them remaining broken?
While gullibility is often seen as a feminine quality, it’s becoming more and more clear that men might be the more gullible gender. I don’t mean it as a diss, it’s just the new unfortunate reality.
I don’t even don’t think male gullibility is inherent to the male experience, I think it’s entirely circumstantial, and I view it as a direct result of the absence of a true definition of masculinity. We are most vulnerable to con artists during periods of uncertainty, and there has never been a more uncertain time for men, who are growing up in a culture where the version of manhood they were told to aspire to since the dawn of time, has become completely antiquated, almost over night.
When men feel aimless and haven’t been given a proper model of masculinity to aspire to, they become casualties in a war for their attention. Think about it, the more lost you feel, the more desperate and willing you are to believe a stranger who is eager to offer you direction. Those sources of so-called knowledge have multiplied with the Tates and Petersons of the world, but their effect has only been to sow more seeds of confusion about what it means to be a man.
A lot of women complain about not being seen by men, forgetting that these very men aren’t connected to themselves in the first place. Andrew Tate is what you get when an increasing number of men are no longer tethered to who they are. We are at our most pliable, when we don’t know ourselves. So now that Andrew Tate might be muzzled for a while, wouldn’t it be fun if we used that white space to have a productive conversation about what kind of man could take his place?
Wonderful read. I have a stepson who had fallen prey to the likes of Peterson and Ben Shapiro. From what I can glean from the stepson's praise of these asshats is that he finds their 'owning' the libs and Feminists a big score for manhood. I fear he is lost and do not know how or if we will ever have him back. The danger of these conmen is very real.
Excellent piece Liz 👍❤️