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AFAICT there is nothing good in Tate's message, except perhaps that one doesn't have to be ashamed of strength.

Yet Tate seems to promote strength, power, and confidence as silver bullets for all ones problems -- mixed with a lot of get-rich-quick BS that boils down to "pay me to teach you to selling teaching to others". And this from a guy who got rich pressuring women into camming and taking a huge cut.

Boys and men need nuanced male role models (even modestly flawed), not one dimensional grifters.



Tate fills a gigantic void that exists because rational people in that space are haunted and shouted down


> Boys and men need nuanced male role models (even modestly flawed), not one dimensional grifters

All individual people are nuanced and flawed people when you interact with them one on one (even Tate I imagine).

What's toxic is social media and it's ability to portray a life that doesn't exist.




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