Who’s Influencing our Boys? By E.L.Mendes Who is Andrew Tate? He was a professional kickboxer and struggling reality TV star. He is now a well-known influencer.
Why should I care? We should care because his opinions are influencing our young men. His views on women, money, and society are all over social media. He lives in a violent misogynistic world. Women are property. Men are superior. Depression isn’t real. Illness is a sign of weakness. Weakness is unacceptable. Eleven-year-old boys are chastising classmates for being fat, lazy females who do nothing but lay around all day eating while men go out and make a living. He encourages his followers to be violent and treat their women as property. He believes that his girlfriends are monetary assets. The worst thing he has spewed forth like word vomit is that women should “bear responsibility” for being raped.
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“You can’t be responsible for something that doesn’t listen to you. You can’t be responsible for a dog if it doesn’t obey you, or a child if it doesn’t obey you, or a woman that doesn’t obey you.”
He says that teachers are liars. They tell you that you will amount to nothing if you make bad grades; it is a big con game. He believes you shouldn’t trust a teacher. Hard to believe? Well, believe it. Our boys are lapping it up.
