[Opinion] The crisis of masculinity and the decline of patriarchy – The Mail & Guardian

The crisis of masculinity and the decline of patriarchy – The Mail & Guardian

The left excoriates figures like Andrew Tate — unjustly, in my opinion — for the coarse type of masculinity they role model. It responds to them with moral outrage and thereby misses the opportunity of seeing them for what they are — unwitting subversive figures. It goes without saying that Tate isn’t an authentic embodiment of masculine authority. His hypermasculine performances expose the hollowness of the foundation of traditional patriarchal…