Because the American media reserved articles for him, Andrew Tate often appeared in my morning overviews of American news. In recent days, the media here have also been shining the spotlight on him.
I don’t know about you, but what I read or hear leaves me wondering. Like an impression that the character is crystallizing ideas and opinions. Either we evoke a sublimated past, or we attribute its success to social networks alone.
Quebec has evolved and so have its men
I would like to point out from the outset that the character inspires nothing but contempt and disgust in me. A real piece of trash to whom I regret devoting a few lines. But now that he is deprived of his stands and that he is facing justice, I prefer to concentrate on us.
For some people, Tate’s popularity is attributable to neo-feminism or gender theory. We fear that the legitimate demands of women or trans people will result in devirilizing our boys. “The man before” was better?
I lived my childhood and adolescence in the 1970s and 1980s. I can’t tell you how happy I am that the male model has evolved and that we now talk about a variety of models.
If I remember correctly the “manly code” of my youth, I feel bad for women and anything that wasn’t the norm. I have nothing but admiration for the homosexuals who were able to lead a courageous fight despite the jeers, insults and physical threats. He was also like that “the man before”.
In 2023, it is now the entire LGBTQ2+ community that dares, raises awareness and confronts ignorance and incomprehension. Let us hope that its journey is shorter than that of the gay community.
Taking an interest in our boys and men
If I allow myself to insist above on the evolution of men in Quebec, it is because I consider that it is emphasized too little. As if they were being excluded from any significant improvement in the situation.
If teenagers, especially, and men, turn to the influencer, it is, whether we admit it or not, because he fills, in the most horrible way, a need. Could it be that we forgot to talk to our boys, to question them?
Until recently, we wondered why they did less well than girls at school and why they dropped out in greater numbers. Even before we had all the answers and found the appropriate fixes, we moved on to teaching gender theory in schools.
If I can only support the demands and the harmonious integration of multiple harmed or penalized groups in our society, I wonder if by wanting to do well, and by doing it very quickly, we have not neglected to also include all these young men considering their needs.