Andrew Tate and the Business of Male Misery

How a kickboxer built an empire on male insecurity and called it freedom. Steve the Hypothetical Gerbil says: This one’s about Andrew Tate. There’s organised crime, a subscription model, and a man who rents Bugattis. I’d summarise it but Paul won’t let me near the keyboard. Steve the Gerbil is also the Head of Communications at JustRodents.com You can read more about him there. About a year ago I watched Adolescence on Netflix. It was a story about a 13-year-old schoolboy who murdered a girl after she rejected him. The series delved into the online manosphere that had shaped his thinking, and it was excellent, the kind of television that stays with you because it’s not really about one boy. It’s about what’s being fed to a generation of them. It also made me considerably less inclined to give Andrew Tate the benefit of the doubt. In 2016, Andrew Tate appeared on Big Brother. He was removed after a video surfaced of him hitting a woman with a belt. He said it was consensual. The…