When confronted about his misogyny, Andrew Tate protests that he loves women and thinks they are “precious.” He tells us it is a man’s responsibility “to protect and provide for the women in his family.” After all, he has a niece, and he would not want her “to grow up in a world where women are hated.”
Obviously, Tate is attempting to limit the definition of the term misogyny to its Greek roots. Although one definition of the word misogyny is “hatred of women,” the Greek that underlies the English word does not limit the English word’s meaning. Other definitions of misogyny include contempt for women, ingrained prejudice toward women, an intense dislike of women, a mistrust of women.
Misogyny is manifested in a variety of ways:
- Demeaning women or their achievements at every opportunity is misogynistic behavior.
- Asserting that women are naturally inferior to men is a misogynistic statement.
- Allocating fewer basic human rights for women than for men or authorizing men to restrict the basic human rights of females related to them by blood or marriage is misogynistic law.
- Believing that women should be denied opportunities in life solely because they are women is a misogynistic philosophy.
Years ago, Sylvester Stallone used to remind us that the problem in the War Between the Sexes was that everyone was sleeping with the enemy. Now one of the problems is that men and women are not sleeping with each other. Instead, they are shouting at each other in venues like divorce courts and online platforms.
Andrew Tate is certainly a misogynist, but so what? Andrew Tate is in no way dangerous to women. As I have noted many times, misogyny is just a point of view, not a crime. Tate is entitled to his misogyny, and his aggressive marketing of his viewpoint gives us all the opportunity to discuss the roles men and women can play and do play and the interactions we observe between them.
Tate’s viewpoint. Tate’s view is that men are entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, while the women are entitled to life, more or less, so long as it’s under the guardianship of a male.
Tate encourages young men to value women the way he does: as an economical combination of maid, sex partner, baby machine, nanny, and nurse who should have but one goal in her life: pleasing her man. In Tate’s world, a man should provide food, shelter, and clothing for his women and their children based on whether or not each individual woman is sexually loyal to him and continues pleasing him. Men, in Tate’s world, should have many sex partners, while their female partners should have only one.
Constant insult. I would be the first person to remind others that Tate assumes different roles in different video situations. The persona he adopts for an interview with Tucker Carlson is not the one he uses on a Fresh ‘n’ Fit podcast. (Where do they get those female creatures for those sessions?) The Andrew Tate we see in the gym with Mike Thurston isn’t the Andrew Tate we find next to his brother for an “Emergency Meeting” podcast in his home studio. But ALL of the Andrew Tates you find have one thing in common, a condescending view of females.
Note that Tate rarely misses an opportunity to demean a woman or to insult women in general. Women make poor employees, he tells us, because they are by nature lazy, stupid, emotional, and ignorant. Good women are “subservient to men.” While he claims to have banged 600-700 women in his twenty years of sexual activity, he expects sexual purity in females. And he has use for only the ones between the ages of nineteen and twenty-four who are beautiful.
And on and on it goes, the different and servile life for women, a free and exciting life for men. Men get liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Women need to stay in the prisons–er, homes–the men provide.
Slave mindset. Tate urges young men to “resist the slave mindset,” yet a slave mindset is the mindset he finds appropriate for women. Women, in Tate’s view, exist only to serve male needs and should always be “under the authority” of one man or another. Personal agency is something reserved for males.
At one time, Tate spoke of intending to have twenty sons by a substantial number of baby mamas. More recently, he asserted that he already had about a dozen children by several women, having used “more than one oven to bake the bread.” Very recently, Tate has become a Muslim, so now he says that a man should have four wives, selecting young women who are chaste and unsophisticated, “blueprints” for the future things they will become under their male guardian/master’s tutelage.
Tate is so deeply misogynistic that he cannot even mention his own mother without demeaning her. Drunk toward the end of a podcast with Patrick Bet-David, Tate made sure we understood that she was “subservient” to his father, or at least she was until his dad abandoned her, Tate, and Tate’s two younger siblings when Tate himself was only ten years old.
Andrew Tate tells us that his mother looks up to him, her son. Maybe he means literally, since Tate is over six feet tall. On a recent podcast, Tate explained to his host, one of those guys with unkempt beards, that he really can’t talk to his mother about much because, as he put it, “She’s just an old woman.”
At thirty-six, Tate likes to date females aged nineteen to twenty-four, girls who are inexperienced and uneducated. He says he wants to be their “portal” to the world, taking them to fine restaurants and traveling to exciting locales.
That’s what fathers usually do for their children. When men in their thirties date adolescent girls, it’s creepy.
Provide and protect. Tate protests that he does not hate women. No, he tells us. He loves women–in their place. Where is that place? Wherever housework, childbirth, childcare, and slavish devotion to her master’s comfort can take her. For example, a woman could leave the house to walk the kids to school or shop for groceries, and perhaps for an occasional fun outing in a maternity ward. Aside from that, her life should be cooking, cleaning the house, having sex with her master, creating and giving birth to what he considers to be “his” children, caring for those children, smiling when he deigns to put in an appearance in the home, and oh, yes, taking care of him when he is ill. Tate mentions again and again this innate talent women have for taking care of adult males who fall ill with, say, a cold.
Tate is so devoted to the principle of “provide and protect” that he would fight to the death to save his woman–that is, he would if he spent any time with her, which is something he is willing to do only infrequently. After all, any “high value man” has other bitches to rule over and new ones to pick up on yachts and in clubs.
And, of course, Tate doesn’t think men should live with women. Instead, they should live with other men, because women are neither intelligent enough nor interesting enough to be companions outside of bed. When Tate and his “boys” take bitches out to dine, he tells us, they put the females at a different table. (I suppose that is a step up from the traditional Bedouin practice of letting the men eat their fill before permitting the women to enter the room and eat the scraps from the men’s plates.)
Picture it. While one of Tate’s baby mamas fights her way through a home invasion by a serial killer, Tate will be at the club, ready to throw fists if another man locks eyes with his slut du jour. That is, if he notices. After all, he’s probably at a different table with his boys, debating the virtues of Porsche and MacLaren engines.
Tate-style men have plenty of women. There are women enough in this world to satisfy all the men who share Tate’s viewpoint, and some of them even reside in the West. In America, there are women with low IQs, women who lack job skills, women with little or no education, or and women whose dysfunctional childhoods will make them see a relationship or marriage to any sort of man as a lifesaving mealticket. There are also other options:
- Tate-type men can import mail-order brides from poverty-stricken countries where women have few or no rights, a solution that may improve the lives of such women.
- Tate and his followers can also convert to religions which dictate separate, servile roles for women, and then find female beings within those tribes for marriage or even (yippie!) a harem.
- And, finally, Tate and his boys can seek mates among the very young, pretty, and naive girls Tate describes as in their prime of life.* Many of these girls will gladly be a fella’s wet dream come true–at least until they grow up and seek out a payday in divorce court.
Just where does Tate’s philosophy take us as a society? It leads to men and women who make poor choices for mates. It leads to women who don’t want permanent mates, and men who don’t want women for longer than dirty weekend. It leads to Radical Feminism and MGTOW, to divorces and custody battles. In other words, where we have been for many decades in America.
Cyclonejane
December 15, 2022
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*Tate’s definition of females in their prime translates as “girls I want to seduce and abandon.” Female ‘prime” for the male always means something sexual–fertility, desirability, performance in bed. Hearing Tate say that took me back to a time when I was academic adviser to an NCAA basketball team. Several of the guys were in my office to say “Happy Birthday” to me, and one asked my age. When I said I was thirty-eight, our high-scoring small forward leaned over, patted my hand, and lowered his voice to a near whisper. “That’s okay,” he said, “I hear that women your age are in their prime.”
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