Why Feminist Teachers Reveal Their Fear of “Manfluencers”

A Review of "The problem of anti-feminist ‘manfluencer’ Andrew Tate in Australian schools: women teachers’ experiences of resurgent male supremacy"

The walls of excavated Pompeii are brimming with lewd graffiti. A few examples: “Amplicatus, I know that Icarus is buggering you!” and “Restituta, take off your tunic, please, and show us your hairy privates.” Two thousand years later, feminists claim to be oblivious to the nature of boys and men. This article reviews "The Problem of Anti-Feminist Influencer Andrew Tate in Australian Schools”, a research paper that suggests a sinister agenda. Under the guise of protecting girls, they exploit what has always been considered harmless banter, exploration, and coping, to incriminate boys. Not once do they ask—if they truly believe such attitudes are dangerous—why boys come to hold them in the first place.

The research aims to connect boys’ behaviour, influenced by Andrew Tate and similar influencers, to the re-establishment of traditional masculine dominance. They attempt to build this argument within Connell’s hegemonic masculinity framework, a convoluted lens that describes gender power …