Andrew Tate is fuelling misogyny in UK schools, teachers warn ⬇️ Social media influencers like Tate are giving boys accused of misogynistic behaviour the ‘ammunition to fight back’, say charities and school speakers. 🔴 Exclusive from connie_dimsdale
A Government spokesperson said “schools and colleges should be safe places” for students and teachers and that reports of sexual violence or harassment should be taken seriously.
Mr Tate, a former kickboxer, has received attention for his misogynistic commentary online. He gained notoriety in 2016 when he wasIn 2017, he was banned on Twitter for saying that women should “bear responsibility” for being sexually assaulted, but was reinstated last month. Clips of him also circulate regularly on TikTok.
He said: “There’s a populist rise in the rhetoric that people like Andrew Tate are putting out, which is certainly having an impact on the way boys are perceiving the whole issue. It’s giving them a feeling of legitimacy in expressing those misogynistic views more openly, or more aggressively.” “They’re quoting statistics about male suicides or statistics about male inmates in prisons. So they’re armed more with some of the injustices in a society where men are perceived victims.”said the group’s education workers have been “lambasted” by boys repeating Mr Tate’s catchphrases and calling him a “legend” or a “top G”.that the online influence of Mr Tate, who became a major internet celebrity in 2022, has “definitely percolated into the classroom” over the past term.
“There’s definitely been an increase in pupils looking at social media influencers like Mr Tate,” she toldMs Pole, who has been a teacher for 12 years, continued: “During those 18 months that we were all at home, for the most part, students were spending more time online, and they were spending more time on social media, perhaps, than they would have been in school.
“The pandemic is a much bigger turning point than Andrew Tate. He’s added to it. But I think most teachers would say it’s going back to coming out of isolation [lockdown].
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