A video from singer Ariana Grande on the red carpet: she hands out signatures to fans.
“She looks like a crack whore,” responds influencer Andrew Tate on January 19 on X, where he has 10.7 million followers – he finds her too skinny. The hodget wins (Influencertweeling Keith and Kevin Hodge, 3.3 million followers) can laugh about it. “See how big her head is,” they say on X. Tate Retweet their video and so the snowball rolls from hateful comments.
A normal day in the manosphere: The online bubble in which women hatred applies if – in the words of the hodget wins – “rock -hard honesty.”
Via social media, websites, forums and podcasts, a group of influencers spreads in addition to woman -unfriendly commentary now about fifteen years old also downright misogyne ideas. Their expressions overlap with those of extreme right -wing communities worldwide and with nationalist and racist groups in the US and elsewhere. The core: feminism and ‘Woke’ culture undermine conservative Western values and thus bring societies into disrepair. Men must resist this ideology that tries to break them. Women’s rights are not achieved but a luxury, depending on the gun factor of the spirit of the times.
In this online world, the former kick boxer Andrew Tate (38) has emerged as the most influential voice.
On the day he took Ariana Grande, he had more to say about women on X: “Women are retarded.” “Women are largely incompetent. Most are hardly conscious. Women who try to ‘do everything that men can do’ do that only because they were not pretty enough to one Sugar Baby to be. “
Romania
The female hatred from the manosphere Has now squeezed in the real world. What is called, since the appointment of Donald Trump and vice president JD Vance is the manosphere penetrated into the White House.
Last week Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan, who had both American and British nationality and were arrested in Romania more than two years ago on suspicion of rape, human trafficking and forming a criminal organization, by private jet to Florida. This happened according to the Financial Times After the Trump government had put pressure on Romania to lift the travel restrictions of the brothers. The brothers landed practically on Trumps, at Fort Lauderdale airport, a stone’s throw from his resort.
Trump – who himself was convicted of sexual abuse – owes much to Tate. Trump and Vance in podcasts and live streams of conservative ghosts of Tate appeared during the election campaign. Trumps campaign team used ideas from the manosphere To win the voices of young men.
In the Manosphere, women’s rights are not achieved but a luxury, depending on the gun factor of the spirit of the times
With success. The presidential elections of 2024 showed A striking difference in voting behavior Between young men and young women. Men aged 18 to 29 voted in large numbers on Donald Trump (56 percent), while young women supported Kamala Harris in the majority (58 percent).
After his comet -like turnout, from March 2022, Tate was banned from Instagram, Facebook, Tiktok and YouTube in August of that year for his cross -border statements. Already in 2017 he was thrown away from Twitter, but after Elon Musk took over the platform, he gave him his account back in 2022. Nevertheless, Tates continues to grow influence, through alternative channels and through followers who spread his message. And he has the president’s ear.
Lines
Numerous lines run between the Trump circle and those of Tate. Andrew has had close ties with Donald Trump Jr. since 2016, who described the arrest of Tate on X as ‘total madness’. Last month Alina Haba, a political adviser to Trump, appeared together with Tate in a podcast in which she said she is a “big fan” of him. “I sympathize with you, because I think you are experiencing exactly the same as President Trump: that they want to find a crime with you at all costs.”
A lawyer from Tate, Paul Ingrassia, who stands that the brothers Tate are suspected of “crimes they never committed” has been appointed as a contact between the White House and the Ministry of Justice.
Vice President JD Vance seems directly from the manosphere from. He has in 2021 suggested That people should not even separate in ‘violent’ marriages. According to him, the sexual revolution told the American population that the breaking of unfortunate or violent relationships would eventually make people happier.
Conversation was a pronunciation, made in 2021 at Fox News, about the US as a country that was governed by “a bunch of childless cat women who are unhappy with their own lives and the choices they have made, and therefore want to make the rest of the country unhappy.” He was referring to, among others, Kamala Harris and Democratic Congressman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Tate called women who don’t want children “miserable dumb bitches“And stated in a now removed podcast that” life without children is useless. ”
Trump himself has repeatedly called women ‘stupid’ and ‘crazy’. He attributed Kamala Harris a “low IQ” and called her “stupid as a stone.”
Trump and JD Vance always claim that such statements have been removed from their context, which also lead many Tate fans to defend their idol. “My brother and I are largely misunderstood,” said Andrew Tate after he had landed in Florida last week. “We have never been convicted of a crime in our lives.”
Trump is by no means the only politician who follows the manosphere And it drives it at the same time. In the UK, where teachers complain about the misogyny that prevails among their male students, the Radical-Right Nigel Farage Tate praised as “an important voice” that “disguised boys” had returned their trust. Dutch politicians also participate. In February 2024, Thierry Baudet traveled to Bucharest for a meeting with Andrew and Tristan Tate. In May of that year he was already in Romania, for a podcast interview in which he joined their resistance to ‘Woke’. Tristan Tate called on his followers to vote for the Forum for Democracy, for a Netherlands “without Woke/ LGBT agenda”.
Status
It works. By one research of the University of Oxford, published last December in the European Journal of Politics and Genderthere is a strong increase in support for the extreme right among young European men. Radical rights parties, they register, respond to this by focusing their message “on masculinity and the status of men” in society.
The researchers point out that “progressive changes in the field of gender equality, gender identity and the #metoo movement Patriarchal structures, gender roles and the status of men in many aspects of society have questioned”.
The authors see the development “as a counter -reaction, especially among young men.” Almost 60 percent of men under thirty in the European Union seriously considered a vote for an extreme right -wing party in 2024 – a much higher percentage than in young women. The difference was also visible in the final choice of party: 30 percent of young men voted the extreme right, compared to 22 percent of young women.
Young people worldwide are becoming increasingly sharper along gender lines. In many countries, from South Korea to the VK and Australia, the gap grows Women and men becoming more progressive with increasingly conservative values. Experts see a combination of causes: a reaction of men on the #metoo movement, resistance to gender equality and the increasing pillarization of online news and entertainment media, who lure people in traps with their algorithms.
Alpha influencer
The manosphere However, it seems to influence more than voting behavior alone. In the UK, aid organizations that assist victims of domestic violence warn that the content from those online world can radicalize men and boys to the point that they actually start using violence against women. One appeared last week research The European Institute for Gender Equality (Eige), which analyzes data from the European Union, indeed gives reason to care. This shows that young men are more tolerant with regard to violence against women than their fathers and grandfathers – a trend that previously reversed. The growing gap between young men and women in values, lifestyle and political views extends, according to the researchers, so also to their attitude towards violence against women.
More than a quarter of men under the age of 45 believe that women often come up with accusations of abuse or rape or exaggerate. For men aged 65 and older that is 21 percent.
“While we know that women actually undermine,” says Carlien Scheele, director of the own. According to the study, 31 percent of women in the EU have had to deal with physical and/or sexual violence since they were 15.
Sexual and physical violence are considered unacceptable by most people in the EU. Nevertheless, significant parts of the respondents find certain forms of violence, such as the exercise of financial control, hate sows and sharing intimate images without permission, still acceptable. And the idea that victims are to blame for violence still appears to be widespread, even among men younger than 45.
These are views that are based on a misunderstanding, says Carlien Scheele, because striving for gender equality is not about displacing or shortening men. “It is a misunderstanding that we only draw attention to women’s rights or that women try to conquer the world. It is about justice and equality for everyone in society. So also for men. ”
Since the arrest of Andrew Tate and his brother in Romania, 35 alleged victims of their women’s trade have reported, including a fifteen -year -old girl at the time. The brothers are also sought by the British authorities for sexual aggression and rape.
The tide turns, Andrew Tate wrote on 12 February on X: “The Tates are released, Trump is again president. The good old days is back – and this time even better than ever. “