TV review In a world full of Andrew Tate-Dates, ‘Het Klokhuis’ still exists

“He has good, strong core values. With regard to the traditional, I am 100 percent behind that, ”said 21-year-old Davey Verbeek about influencer Andrew Tate, Sunday evening at RTL Tonight. In a flurry of sensory assimilation, the editors there had thought that it was a good idea to invite a unworldly boy, by participating in First Dates (NPO 3) viral gone. He had asked his date Alanah Peeters what she thought of male and female roles. Alanah found: “If we earn just as much, you will also have a nice brushing.” Davey resolutely cut her off: “Look, look, look. So that will never happen.” When Alanah indignantly asked why not, he replied: “Because you don’t have those ambitions. You just want your nails, your makeup, you just want to be a nice woman. Or am I wrong?”

He was wrong. Monday, a day after Davey at RTL Tonight Alanah indicated an interview for a kind of tribunal of adults RTL News: “I don’t really think Davey is the core of the problem, he is the result. As soon as such Andrew Tate makes statements, then those young boys who are still in development take that over. They then end up in society and I think that is quite a scary thought.”

In her book Feminism is for everyone From 2001, Denker and writer Bell Hooks (1952-2021) wrote that men are afraid of women: afraid of losing privileges and power. Not that men can do something about it, who live just as well in the patriarchy that boys learns not to cry and that playing football is good and dresses are wrong. To reduce that fear, Hooks says, we must not only raise our daughters but especially our sons feminist, because “a feminist is not born, but created.”

Sexism

Fortunate Het Klokhuis (NTR). This Monday the endearing, and at times also very funny Episode about sexism. “Sexism has nothing to do with sex, but with your gender. Your gender, therefore. It means that you treat someone wrongly otherwise, because he has a dick or a vagina.” If Davey looked, he would have heard that sexism arises “because we have ideas about what a ‘real’ man is, or a ‘real’ woman. In our society, things that are labeled as girlish are often seen as less good and less important. So girls are more troubled with sexism than boys.”

Davey did not get “the traditional way” from home. He now lives with his grandmother. Or no, he corrected quickly: his grandmother lives with him. You see him struggling, the dear boy who is stored in him, who always loses it from the Tate boy who has forced him. He is a consequence to speak with Alanah. A consequence of a world full of men who are afraid of women.

Zoom in

Speaking of frightened men: in the short NPO DOC A good mother Interviewed director Kim Faber (NPO 2) three mothers who got a burnout through parenthood. The common thread in the documentary is the parent phone, a helpline for parents with questions. Almost only mothers call. One of them was Jasmijn who had her third child during Corona. Her husband worked in the attic five days a week, she was leave and took care of the house. “That was really just with a baby at the chest, and the middle one was just getting clean, and the parcel service is just around the door, and yes, that’s how it looked at our house. That was really chaos. But I still thought I had everything under control.” Not so.

Director Faber mainly wanted to start a social conversation, she said in an interview. “Perhaps our society is moving too slowly with the emancipation of the woman who is more than just a mother.” I know for sure. Hopefully Davey watched, together with grandma.

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