You know, I took—and I actually would say that I am still taking a lot of flack for having gone and interviewed Andrew Tate and trying to understand closely the phenomena of Andrew Tate.
You know, he has amassed an audience.
Millions and millions of men follow him.
And, of course, the media take is that he's a toxic, masculine man who is making men treat women terribly— And so when I saw this headline, I was keen to see what it was that Andrew Tate said that was so bad.
The headline ran on the Daily Mail.
It says, So immediately, a headline like that, you go, Amanda Holden is a victim, Andrew Tate has done something horrible to her, and she is taking the high road by not even retaliating.
And they have this picture of her in a bikini, and she looks really sexy.
And the entire way that this article was written was really interesting because they were trying to already make you hate Andrew Tate before they even got to what it was that he said that was so controversial that she was taking the high road and refusing to retaliate.
It says here...
In July, the HeartFN presenter, 52 years old, tweeted a racy image of herself enjoying a poolside shower in a sexy black bikini, igniting a vile response from the former Big Brother contestant who's dubbed the king of toxic masculinity.
So when journalists do this, they're already...
Implanting into your head how you were supposed to think of this.
That what he has done is already vile before we even tell you what he has said.
And he is the king of toxic masculinity.
He is bad. She is great. Got it.
So what did Andrew Tate say?
He said to this 52-year-old woman who is married with children, you are a wife and a mother and you're far past a teenager.
There is no need for this post.
That's all he said. Didn't call her a b****. Didn't call her a hoe. Didn't speak down to her.
He basically called her exactly what she is. A wife, check.
True. A mother, check. True.
Not a teenager, check. True. No need for this post, check.
True. Nothing happened here.
Nothing happened to her. But again, as we just spoke about, there are all sorts of media
agendas and one of them is to make women think that there is empowerment in nudity and that
somehow it is makes you cooler or somehow more relevant if you're constantly naked on the internet.
And this has actually been an ideology, but I speak out against women.
Often, and not because of Andrew Tate, because it has been crucial for me to let young women know that being this way does not make you happy.
It doesn't make you happy. They're lying to you.
It's just a media simulation that women should constantly be taking their clothes off, you know?
A lot of these women end up alone and unhappy.
So he says this to her, and the media jumps to her side because how dare he criticize her while she's wearing a bikini.
And what I found to be particularly interesting is what she said back.
She said, honestly, I had another shot of me in a bikini with just a close-up of my bum.
I was tempted to post with the caption, kiss my 52-year-old arse.
But you know, something like that is just going to go on and on in the end.
Why give him oxygen?
She insisted that she only dresses for herself and no one else.
And isn't that the truth?
Because we live in a culture of narcissism that's supposed to be empowering.
She's dressing for her.
She's being sexy for her.
Never mind the fact that she has an 11-year-old child at home.
Never mind the fact that she is also a mother to a 17-year-old daughter.
It's about her and how she feels and what she wants to do every single day because, again, we live in a largely selfish culture.
Nobody is selfless. Nobody thinks about their kids first.
Nobody thinks about their husband and whether or not they're respecting their husband.
It's all about you, you, you, me, me, me.
And if somebody dare says, hey, have you ever considered that you are leading a family?
Have you ever considered that you are the matriarch of a family?
Have you ever considered that your daughters are looking to you as an example that your husband wants to be respected?
Then you're supposed to snap back and say, Well, I actually have a picture of my bum and my arse, and I was going to put it on the internet, and I might do it next time.
Yeah, it's a sad way to be when you're 52 years old.
In conclusion, Andrew Tate was right.
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