According to the Cambridge dictionary an alpha male is “the most successful and powerful male in any group. A strong and successful man who likes to be in charge of others." I mean there is nothing wrong in wanting to be successful and powerful. But it does not stop with that. The recent "alpha male movement" was started by this man named Andrew Tate. This man started making videos on how to be an alpha male and how becoming one would make the men successful and rich. He did not end it there, rather he added that in order to become the so called “superior quality man" they should start controlling their woman.
I quote "Females are designed to meet a man, get pregnant, fall in love with the said man. If you sleep with enough of them, you remove the stigma and that cheapens you. It doesn’t matter if a man slept with 20 girls or 200 girls, he’s still a man”. It does not stop with this; he has passed many more vicious and disgusting comments about women. The matter blew up to an extent that he was banned from social media sites like YouTube and Instagram because of his hate speech. But his videos are still being shared. Still being seen by millions of men, especially the growing youth.
Young people are being swayed by him. Andrew Tate has portrayed himself as a rich dude with a lot many cars and who is absolutely successful. That is more that enough for young minds to jump on the "alpha male" bandwagon. They think that if they obey his words like; ‘cheat on women’, ‘treat them bad’, ‘a real man does cry’, blah blah blah, they would become successful and people would adore them.
When women are trying their best to come up in the society, striving to be treated as equals, trying to speak up against discrimination, a person like Andrew Tate and his bulls*** ideologies on being a "man" is a menace.
PS: He is currently detained in Romania over a rape and human trafficking investigation.
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