For defending male culture
Hmm. Nigel Farage speaks up in defense of manly pastimes like beating up women:
Nigel Farage has praised the misogynist influencer Andrew Tate for being an “important voice” for the “emasculated” and giving boys “perhaps a bit of confidence at school” in online interviews that appear to be aimed at young men over the past year.
The Reform UK leader spoke in favour of Tate for defending “male culture” in a Strike It Big podcast that aired in February, while acknowledging that the influencer had gone “over the top” and elsewhere that he had said some “pretty horrible” things.
Good old male culture, with its mischievous delight in choking and punching and raping women.
Since December 2022, Tate has been facing charges in Romania of human trafficking, rape, and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women, which he denies.
Many politicians and teachers have spoken out against Tate’s influence on young boys in the UK, after the self-proclaimed misogynist said women belonged in the home and were a man’s property. “There’s no way you can be rooted in reality and not be sexist,” Tate said in one video.
So cheeky! Isn’t he delightful?
In other clips reported by the Observer, the British-American kickboxer – who poses with fast cars and guns, and portrays himself as a cigar-smoking playboy – talks about hitting and choking women, trashing their belongings and stopping them from going out.
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In his Strike It Big podcast appearance in February, Farage said Tate had been “an important voice” for men, who were being told that male culture should be looked down on.
“Tate was a very important voice for an emasculated … you three guys, you are all 25, you are all kind of being told you can’t be blokes, you can’t do laddish, fun, bloke things … That’s almost what you’re being told. That masculinity is something we should look down upon, something we should frown upon.”
So get out there and beat up some women!
He sounds like a real keeper…
There are many kinds of masculinity, but only one seems to get people’s sympathy; the most macho, violent, misogynistic masculinity is the one seen to be most naturally male. That can be irksome for men who don’t hit women, who like books and art, and aren’t into guns and fighting, but still consider themselves masculine – and are, because masculine just means having male characteristics. Those can be simply the physical act of being male and making the smaller gametes.
Ah, violent, bullying, domineering behavior is just Who They Are, and we’re always supposed to let people act in accordance with Who They Are, aren’t we? Or maybe, just maybe, we should argue about whether certain behavior is harmful, instead of focusing on whether it’s innate, whether it’s Who They Are?