See: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/06/15/andrew-tates-empire-of-abuse
We’ve seen deranged “feminist” lunacy result in men being attacked simply for being men. At times this extends to parental alienation, using the “suffering woman” card in an effort to attain total custody of the kids.
However, there is a deeply destructive “manosphere” phenomenon on the other side as well.
Extremism tends to generate extremism.
Andrew Tate isn’t just a “tough talking guy.” As this article shows, he is a criminal addicted to grooming, online pimping, choking and raping women, imprisoning them and controlling their every move through alternate reward and threat.
The failure to take this seriously led Lauren Southern to be one of Tate’s victims. She was famous for minimizing toxic masculinity, until she went out with him and became one of his choke-rape statistics.
It is astonishing that this man is not in jail for life, but there again you see how a social factor — the failure of the justice system — emboldens and normalizes a criminal.
Tate’s story is often told as one man’s excess, but when you step back it is clearly sociopsychological. It is rooted in family structure, normalized through subculture, and scaled through digital economies.
The landmark The New Yorker article traces a formative environment shaped by a volatile father figure who fused brilliance with paranoia, narcissism, and violence, and a household marked by violence, fear, instability, and domination—outright abuse.
Masculinity was not modeled as care or responsibility, as it should be. Instead it was control, intimidation, and emotional detachment. This is the starting point. Tate’s father could not provide, either.
Femininity was not about gentle care but rather bearing the slow, unyielding hammering of a dual role amid poverty. Mom was overworked and sickened at a lousy job. She couldn’t stand up to the abusive father. This reinforced a dynamic where masculinity is both feared and idealized.
Gender disturbance, merged with child abuse and grinding poverty, cracked Tate’s brain. He turned to mass producing customized virtual porn—through women he broke and addicted to him—as his escape.
Students of feminist theory can see the origin story of this serial rapist clearly. It’s about fusing gender and power:
– Domination, through the father, became equated with male identity.
– Violence and the fear of violence was how Tate was indoctrinated to do whatever his father wanted. His adult reaction was to inflict it on women and his own progeny.
– Meanwhile, women became objects through which power is performed and validated.
In adulthood, Tate manifested his illness not just in gross misogynistic rhetoric, but in systematic practices he charged men money to learn: grooming, coercion, emotional manipulation, and the selling of women’s bodies.
Like all serial criminals, Tate is compelled to offend over and over. He has a compulsion to break women. He does it by slowly and strategically eroding women’s autonomy over time through the so-called “lover-boy” method. He makes them dependent, psychologically and financially, and then places other women in charge of them as guards.
Tate’s repulsive business model is wrapped in a broader ideology that frames the exploitation of women as “entrepreneurship” and total domination as the ultimate masculine virtue.
Digital capitalism encourages Tate’s perverse pathology and turns it into a collective aspiration.
Through platforms, paid networks, and algorithms, the “manosphere” turns private abuse into a scalable model of influence and profit.
Seen this way, the convergence of family socialization, gender ideology, and digital capitalism allows “Tate syndrome” to reproduce itself at scale.
Finally, Tate politically promoted Donald J. Trump and then reaped the benefits afterward. This distasteful fact does not make him representative of “MAGA,” but the New Yorker as an anti-Trump magazine takes care to weave this otherwise excellent piece of journalism together with political polemic.
You can read about Lauren Southern’s story here: https://www.compactmag.com/article/lauren-southern-seeks-forgiveness/
Writing by Dr. Dannielle Blumenthal 