Andrew Tate (along with Jeremy Clarkson, Piers Morgan, Jordan Peterson, Laurence Fox just to name a few) is just another one of those public figures who worked out that people are naturally drawn to extremist zealots with polarizing personalities and are happy to exploit that for personal gain.
We’re naturally drawn to people with strong opinions whether we are for or against those opinions. As social animals we’re also very tribalist, and we easily fall for those peddling false dichotomies (Hegelian Dialectics?) when they tap into our insecurities, fears, prejudices, etc. Andrew Tate and other controversial figures play off these really well: alpha men vs. feminists (or women in general), right wing patriots vs. commie libs, Harry & Meghan vs. Royal Family, Brexit vs. Remain (remember Farage?)
It’s obvious that Tate targets his message to a very specific demographic: young men – his curated audience (I mentioned something similar in Marmalade’s Right to Offend thread) who view Tate as a role model. I can appreciate why teenage boys (and easily impressionable adult men) view Tate as a role model. Here’s this guy telling you he’s successful, he’s an alpha male by being nasty to other men and specially women. It all looks so glamorous – as opposed to what their dad does day in day out going to work and making ends meet (if there is a dad in the equation at all.)
Jordan Peterson is the perfect example of a ‘masculinity guru’ who rose to prominence by advising young men to do things that their father (or male role model) arguably should have advised them to do when they were younger (e.g. do exercise, eat healthily, educate yourself, etc.) but Jordan mixed his ‘advice’ with his own warped vision of life and relationships with women; all enveloped in faux-academic language which gave the impression that he knows what he’s talking about.
I can only imagine (I’m no expert) that some of the reasons why some men find someone Tate’s ideas and misogynist attitudes appealing, is very low self-esteem and inherent prejudice.
Having heard young men telling another that they need to beat their girlfriend as Tate says to keep her in line I think he is dangerous and will cheer if they lock him up. He is just another piece of low life scum that the weak minded worship.
Indeed. The problem, as I see it, with impressionable young men following Tate’s advice is that they end up in a self fulfilling prophecy. They start behaving like Neanderthals with women, who in turn reject them which proves Tate’s misogynists theory that all women (not to mention feminists) are against men. It’s the confirmation of every incel’s fear.
The more women (some women I should say) react against this and the liberal lefties in general express their outrage the more it proves the “matrix”, the woke left, the establishment are out to get them and the whole things end up in a vicious circle.
And because the way the internet works (and makes profit) by click-rating the more Tate wins and increases his profile.
