by Lara Al Hassanieh | Staff Writer
Like a broken record, we hear about Andrew Tate’s shenanigans at least once a day. While I don’t claim to be the internet police, I can’t deny that I found myself at the edge of my seat every time he showed up on my feed. I wanted to speak up but realized that it would be futile, I’d be white noise compared to the sea of people who keep cheering this man on. However, here is my take, and I hope to some degree, we can agree on some grounds at least.
Let’s start with the basics: A misogynist, by definition, is a person who has an unconscious hatred for women. And maybe you can think of someone in particular who has these traits, but unfortunately, there are many misogynists who claim to be pro-women while acting the complete opposite. Not a single misogynist acts like the other, they might have some similar characteristics, but we should always watch out for their actions and their words, as one can be a clue to the other.
My first impression of Andrew Tate, resulted from the number of preachy videos he has out there. He talks about hustle culture, female-centric societies, men, women, and the infamous matrix. But let’s be objective here, Andrew Tate called many of us “haters” on Rob Moore’s Youtube channel, talking about how any woman who was asked whether she likes Andrew Tate or not immediately said she hates him. He said that women call him a misogynist without any proof or understanding what the word itself entails. Moreover, he claims that there is no proof of his misogyny anywhere and that people always take his words out of context. Basically, everyone who hates Andrew Tate is a slave to the matrix, with no agency, they’re merely puppets who are regularly updating their views based on the trends or the so-called “machines”.
He called me out honestly, I guess I’m a slave to the system too…
Listening before judging? Deal. On being called a misogynist, Andrew Tate says on a date with Chian in Stand Out TV “I think that the synergy between men and women is a beautiful thing as long as it’s done correctly, as long as the woman obeys like she’s supposed to”. On infidelity, he says that male and female loyalty are not the same: “If a man sleeps with a bunch of chicks, it doesn’t matter, who cares?”. He continues with, “body count is the easiest way to judge the value of a female”. Here are but a few statements that prove misogyny, which is characterized by feelings of superiority towards women. On Layah Heilpern’s YouTube channel , Andrew Tate says that he is a realist, and that he can’t travel with any females because it’s like taking a three-year-old with him. Moreover, he says his life is a war, and he’s resisting the enslavement of man by making a lot of money so he becomes ungovernable.
We can’t stop here, though, because Andrew Tate has been accused of rape by 3 women. Are these rape allegations really shocking? There are voice notes where he tells one of those women that he “loves raping her” and many more revolting things. He accuses women of lying to him, but when he lies about being Christian he immediately reverts to the “I can do it, but you can’t” argument. Moreover, he is currently in prison for human trafficking and rape allegations, but is this shocking when he keeps telling us he wants to be above the government? Human trafficking, according to the Department of Homeland Security, is when force, fraud, or coercion is used to obtain labor or sex acts from a person. Traffickers might use violence, manipulation, false promises of well-paying jobs, and romantic relationships to lure people in. This does not seem a very far-fetched thing to do for the man who explicitly said that if his woman was to make an Onlyfans, she should give him all the money because she’s promoting “his product”.
I will leave the rest to you, dear reader, to ponder. If a man tells you two lies and a truth, what would you focus on? To put it bluntly, Andrew Tate is a man of many words and many actions, a resistor of feminism, in a time where men don’t feel as powerful as before. Don’t let the pro-women act fool you, because it’s just that, an act. Personally, I wish misogynistic men like Tate came with a label attached “do not approach” in bold red, because men like him can sweep you off your feet. With or without your consent? That is the question…
okay, I’ve pondered.
First of all why did your definition of misogyny change? It began with “The unconscious hatred of women” which is inaccurate in itself, a misogynist need not be unconscious of the fact that he’s a misogynist either, they can be entirely aware that they hate women, but let’s give it the benefit of the doubt because it’s relatively close to the definitive definition of misogyny. When you say “Feelings of superiority towards women” that’s a completely different thing. That would put it akin towards sexism maybe but certainly not misogyny, in that regard it’s pretty easy to call him a sexist, he even admits this himself. this comparison may be crude but i would liken it to a pet. You feel superior to your pet but it doesn’t mean you hate your pet, you likely love your pet. Moreover you don’t treat your pet like an equal because they’re your pet, not because you hate them. It doesn’t equate to treating them badly just because you treat them unequally. In essence you’ve failed to outline to either the reader or yourself what a misogynist is which shows in the rest of your article.
The rest of your article then becomes the repition of Andrew’s statements Which would be fine had there been an adequate assessment of these statements. In it’s stead you’ve chosen to outly these statements without considering the mindset, logic or critical thought put into those statements but instead leave it to the reader to create their own understanding of those statements. This would be fine as well, had you not concluded with your own understanding that Tate is a misogynist. I’m going to assume you didn’t flip a coin to come to that conclusion so I’m sure you could have put more effort into explaining how you believe that these actions fit with the definition of misogyny, unfortunately you’ve failed to define misogyny in the first place so i understand how it would be difficult to do so.
Let’s then go into the next paragraph detailing his r*pe allegations. Yes Tate has been accused of r*pe by 3 women and that’s not surprising but that’s not because of his statements or anything. Think about it critically. This man operated a webcam business where in which he employed the services of up to 75 women as well as the fact that he likes to surround himself with beautiful women as a part of his lifestyle. Tate is also controversial and says controversial things regarding women. As such the r*pe accusations are inevitable, far more people have been accused using far less (Manchester city professional footballer Benjamin Mendy was accused by 9 different women of which he was found not guilty in 7 cases with 2 cases still pending, Julian Assange was accused of r*pe by a woman, conveniently at a time period where he was under scrutiny from the U.S government for leaking files of war crimes committed in the middle east, based on nothing but the testimony of the girl in question. There are literally hundreds of stories like this) I’m Genuinely surprised that with all the girls he interacts with only 3 have accused him of r*pe. Moreover the voice notes aren’t surprising either. It’s not even the first time something like this has happened to where it’s been severly taken out of context. We have to remember Tate is either really kinky himself or his partners on occasion are really kinky. I say this because of one particular example. A few years ago a video of Tate surfaced of him beating a girl with a belt and what seemed to be him abusing her. It turned out that the girl in question had asked him to do it as one of her kinks, she admits this on camera with Tate and still continues to defend him publicly and continuously tries to clear up the situation to people that are unaware, even while Tate is in prison. Now imagine a circumstance in which she refused to admit this but instead decided to reap the benefits of pushing the narrative that Andrew indeed was an abuser. It would be a scenario much like that in the voice notes. I’m not denying the voice notes as evidence but rather I’m highlighting the fact that you’ve really put no thought into any of this. Moreover his alleged sex crimes have nothing to do with misogyny anyway. You’ve spun that so that it may seem like it does but it really doesn’t. I say all of this as someone who believed he was a misogynist and tried to prove it but could not do so in an inequivalently unbiased way. Truth is there is just not enough evidence to definitively call him a misogynist.