Born in a Military hospital in Washington D.C. by an African American Father, Emory Tate, and a white mother who worked as a catering assistant, he has a younger brother, Tristan Tate.
He was raised in Chicago, Illinois, and Goshen, Indiana. Tate started boxing and other martial arts in 2005 and quickly gained repute earning him the nickname, King Cobra.
Andrew quickly came under public scrutiny when he was featured in a season of Big Brother where he made racist and homophobic comments on Twitter. the authorities had to boot him off the show when a video emerged online when he appeared to be hitting a woman with what looked like a leather belt.
He publicly stated that he and the woman were friends and it was all consensual. in the following years, we see a rapid rise of this self-styled king of Toxic masculinity with a surging fan base of millions of boys and young men inspired and driven by his messages and sermons of how masculinity ought to be , escaping the matrix and emphasis of controlling your womenfolk as a real man.
Andrew Tate says women belong in the home, can’t drive, and are a man’s property.
He also thinks rape victims must “bear responsibility” for their attacks and dates women aged 18–19 because he can “make an imprint” on them, easily control them and because they are less likely to have had less sex according to videos posted online.
In other clips, the British-American kickboxer – who poses with race cars and blaring guns, portrays himself as the quintessential cigar-smoking playboy – talks about hitting and choking women, trashing their belongings, and stopping them from going out. he believes they should be kept at home.
“It’s bang out the machete, boom in her face and grip her by the neck. Shut up bitch,” he says in one video, acting out how he’d attack a woman if she accused him of cheating. In another, he describes throwing a woman’s things out of the window. In a third, he calls an ex-girlfriend who accused him of hitting her – an allegation he denies – a “dumb hoe”.
Tate’s views have been described as extreme misogyny by domestic abuse charities, capable of radicalizing young men and boys to commit harm offline.
Styled as a self-help guru, offering his mostly male fans a way for bringing in millions of bucks, pulling girls and “escaping the matrix”, Tate has gone in a matter of months from near obscurity to one of the most talked about people in the world. In July, there were more Google searches for his name than for Donald Trump or Kim Kardashian.
Teachers have expressed concern on his growing influence on young boys and in a video he was brought up in the British parliament as a matter of national issue.
Teenage males who are impressionable are Tate's main audience, and many of them have begun to take in his sexist remarks and opinions. Tate has an impact on preteen boys' worldview, especially on how they view women.
And these opinions have not only spread beyond the TikTok community; they have also been gradually making their way into homes and schools.
Seven teachers who were interviewed by Insider said Tate's ideas and words have had a big effect on their pupils, some of whom are as young as 11 years old. One teacher observed, "They talk about alphas in sixth grade now."
Cassidy Pope, a high school biology teacher who requested anonymity, stated that the males in her class have begun exhibiting "blatant misogyny," saying that girls belong in the kitchen and are only meant for reproduction.
They used to be able to simply say, "Oh, it's just what my dad thinks," and conceal. Pope told Insider that the situation is simpler to handle than "this is what this major influencer has to say, who a lot of people are rallying behind, making it more normalized and more OK to be so vile.
Tate is viewed by students as "the epitome of masculine energy," and they speak of him as though he's a deity, according to South Carolina instructor and podcast host Brittany Blackwell.
Because I'm a woman, they frequently don't value my opinions or my requests for responsibility, according to Blackwell. Simply put, it is rude.
Blackwell, however, observes that boys continue to show respect for male administrators and teachers. She claimed that although misogyny has always been a problem for female teachers, it has grown worse.
She said, "I feel like maybe five or six years ago, my students had more open minds." "Recently, it just seems like the students are exposed to Andrew Tate or other leaders who have these extremely divisive viewpoints on gender roles more frequently.
Tate’s influence is a slippery slope to increasingly dangerous ideas.
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