“It's an enormous massive group of people - mostly young, disgruntled straight men - who are at war with their own masculinity and what it means to be growing up as a young man and they're looking for a way to make sense of it,” Bernstein said.Īnd Tate is just one of the influencers that this audience listens to. He described seeing Tate’s content and instinctively recognizing the danger he presented. His post has been liked over 1.4 million times, and the first wave of social media bans began just days after it was uploaded.īernstein, a 23-year-old based in New York who routinely posts political commentary online, received an onslaught of anti-gay abuse from Tate fans who believed he was largely responsible for the former kickboxer being deplatformed by various social media sites. Bernstein had “no idea whatsoever” what impact his viral post would have.
Tate’s social media bans have been a reckoning for misogynist male podcasters who often speak of themselves as alpha males and make derogatory comments about women.
“This is a problem on a societal level that we have to deal with, yes, in social media regulation, but also in healthy parenting and healthy friendships between men,” he told BuzzFeed News.
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