Andrew Tate and Other Pathetic ‘Heroes’ of the Misogyny Cult

Will Black
5 min readDec 31, 2022

Greta Thunberg recently used the term ‘small dick energy’ to mock misogynistic Big Brother failure Andrew Tate (he was ejected after footage emerged of him beating a woman with a belt), who was boasting about how many cars he has in to attempt to bait the climate activist. Razor sharp Thunberg’s put down has become one of the most successful tweets (if not the most successful tweet) ever posted. At the time of writing, it has passed 263 million views and three and a half million likes.

Tate, who has been linked to the far-right and has said a number of reprehensible things about women and has peddled racist and homophobic crap, couldn’t hide his fury at being outsmarted by a female teenage activist, who the far-right and other ignorant bigots like to describe as a ‘girl’ and ‘mentally ill’. She is neither.

His knee jerk response was to post a video of himself smoking and babbling. In his haste to save face, he appears to have forgotten that he was wanted by Romanian police for rape, human trafficking and organised crime allegations — and pizza boxes in front of him revealed where he was. The property was promptly raided, and Tate arrested. A court has since remanded him in custody for 30 days, while the investigation continues. Police found an arsenal of weapons in the premises occupied by Tate and his brother, who…

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Will Black

Will is an anthropologist, journalist and former clinician. He is the author or Veneer of Civilisation, Psychopathic Cultures and Beyond the End of the World