Andrew Tate is attractive because he recenters young white men and a really obvious and very explicit kind of way in. He basically says you're important you're needed your masculinity is needed to fight against all of the changes that are happening in the world. A lot of what Tate is saying isn't actually new it's a re-articulation of a kind of crisis of masculinity discourse we see back in the 1970s, 1980s through the men's movement led up by people like Robert Bly or Warren Farrell.
Controversial manfluencer Andrew Tate is in a Romanian prison, accused of rape and human trafficking. Vox’s Rebecca Jennings and sociolinguist Robert Lawson explain why his brand of grotesque misogyny appeals to millions of men.
This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Serena Solin, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained
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