"Our freak of the week is incel-fluffing testosterone-poisoned Andrew Tate. Andrew is our freak of the week because thanks apparently to the Trump administration, yesterday at dawn, a private jet whisked him out of Romania where he was facing rape and human trafficking charges and into our own beautiful state of Florida."

~ Nina Burleigh

#Trump #AndrewTate #misogyny #SexualViolence #SexTrafficking #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MalePrivilege
/5

https://www.americanfreakshow.news/p/freak-of-the-week-andrew-tate

"Straight white male is an identity too, and the right pushes a hateful, regressive version of those identity politics, though no one blames straight white male identity politics for Republican losses. It was never 'he made her do it.' Those identity politics are rendered invisible or treated as beyond question. But I'm here to question them."

#Democrats #Republicans #gender #media #MalePrivilege #MaleEntitlement
/5

"Behind these stories is the assumption that some people matter more than other people, and that we who matter less have to pander to those who matter more – conservatives when they are imagined as straight, as white, as male, as rural, as salt of the earth, as the real Americans, unlike us ethnic/ immigrant/ urban/ non-male/ non-straight people."

#Democrats #Republicans #gender #media #MalePrivilege #MaleEntitlement
/4

"And in the same way the diverse population left of center is supposed to make nice to the right or be responsible for when the right goes wrong. These stories amount to 'the left was so annoying about pronouns or liberals made people feel so guilty about plastic straws they had no choice but to get on board with the second coming of the Third Reich and the destruction of the planet.'"

#Democrats #Republicans #gender #media #MalePrivilege #MaleEntitlement
/3

"It's also routine to blame the Democratic Party for what the Republican Party does. The two parties are unconsciously regarded as akin to a husband and wife in a traditional marriage in which it's the job of the wife to placate and soothe the husband and help him realize his goals or be held responsible for his outbursts and outrages."

#Democrats #Republicans #gender #media #MalePrivilege #MaleEntitlement
/2

Francesca Fiorentini and Wajahat Ali note the timing of the Trump administration's drop of the Epstein files and suggest that the timing is not accidental: it was arranged to distract from Trump's freeing of sex trafficker Andrew Tate and his choice to fly Tate to the US.

#Trump #AndrewTate #misogyny #SexualViolence #SexTrafficking #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MalePrivilege
/4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFeDPr-HyCk

"On Thursday, the Trump administration allowed social media influencers to travel to the US despite the fact that they have been accused of sex trafficking and rape."

#Trump #AndrewTate #misogyny #SexualViolence #SexTrafficking #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MalePrivilege
/3

"Trump has based his anti-immigration stance on the falsehood that immigrants are rapists and sexual predators. The right-wing media and Trump's supporters have fallen for that narrative completely. DOJ and ICE have commenced summary deportations of immigrants accused of crimes—without regard to their guilt or innocence."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #AndrewTate #misogyny #SexualViolence #SexTrafficking #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MalePrivilege
/2

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/things-will-get-better