The influence Andrew Tate could have on the younger generation
On the 29th of December last year, popular social media influencer and self-proclaimed ‘Top G’ Andrew Tate was arrested in his home in Romania.
Tate has been a massive figure in the men’s rights movement for seven years since his initial appearance in the UK reality show Big Brother, which he was kicked off from due to a video of Tate beating a woman with a belt surfacing online.
Tate claimed this video was taken out of context and the woman involved had given full consent to this purely sexual act. However, Tate’s actions since Big Brother have proven otherwise; he went on to make his online content featuring himself giving advice to young men on success and going on long rants about women.
He has made many viral videos on YouTube, most of which feature Tate on podcasts discussing women’s bodies, their rights and what he thinks, as a man, women should be. He also has extreme opinions on how men should be – alphas, as he would say. Men, for the past couple of years, have been discovering this specific mindset which teaches that men should be strong, powerful creatures that degrade other men and women, believing men should be out on battlefields fighting while their wives stay at home and cook.
At first, Tate seemed a bit of a joke, an extreme misogynist that everyone could laugh at. However, on the other side, many men were starting to appreciate the attention they received from Tate and began to feel inspired, claiming he made them feel motivated to improve. Whilst many older men were split, arguing whether Tate had a point or was truly an awful person, the younger boys caught on. They saw these videos of Tate bragging about the cars he owns and the women he dates, and they deemed him an inspiration. However, while enamoured with his wealth, they seemed to have missed the dark message underneath.
They also began taking inspiration from the way he treated women. Younger boys all over the planet see a successful, wealthy man discuss women and how they should be treated, spreading lies that most women want to be dominated. Young boys see this and think he’s right; this is how to get an attractive, submissive girlfriend, but eventually, these boys will grow up and realise most women on the planet won’t fall for that; they don’t want to sit back and be mistreated.
These boys are taught that women who speak their minds and open their mouths are wrong and that their only purpose is childbearing. These boys are being taught that emotion isn’t okay, being gay is wrong, and cheating is inevitable, all things that we as a planet have been trying to erase for years. All the progress people and governments have made is thrown away within a few months, all because of one man on the internet.
Because of this man, there are shifts in classrooms, young boys treating young girls poorly – talking down to them, laughing at them for no reason other than that’s what their hero, ‘Top G’, Andrew Tate, would do. There are shifts online, men complaining whenever a woman has an opinion, and God forbid, it is different to theirs. Men get upset when feminists are brought into the conversation, getting upset when a gay man proudly states their identity.
They sure get upset a lot for being such tough ‘alpha’ men.
Tate was arrested for potential sex trafficking of women of all different ages, and younger boys are still defending him, claiming people want to get rid of him because he speaks the truth. This is terrifying for other men and women over the globe who are forced to sit back in fear while his fanbase grows and the hatred for these minority groups rises.
Thousands of years of progress men and women have made together to move past misogyny, all down the drain, leaving young girls left to deal with young boys who now think it’s okay to hit them and tell them to be quiet.
The world is no longer the 1950s, and giving these men a platform to influence young people is dangerous. It’s in parents’ hands to teach their kids about right and wrong and why an older rich man who got famous for beating someone probably isn’t the best inspiration for young people.