Andrew Tate's arrest shows the manosphere scam is unraveling

Calling the manosphere gay is good for a cheap laugh, and making fun of Andrew Tate’s arrest ensemble is hilarious, but there is nothing funny about the manosphere or its dangerous and violent style of misogyny. Let’s stop pretending we care about the welfare of boys in America. If we did, the manosphere would already be dead.Instead, millions of teenage boys are still turning to some of the most dishonest men on the internet for guidance about how to live. These men present themselves as spiritual mentors, over-pumped philosophers, and stalwart guardians of masculinity while selling courses, trading schemes, and personality cults built on humiliation and grievance. And of course, following the arrest and pending extradition of Andrew and Tristan Tate, MAGA has been quick to defend the Tate brothers, because given our current global war on men and masculinity, they must be the victims.For years, MAGA has insisted that America faces an existential threat from predators hiding in our schools, libraries, drag shows, and immigrant communities. "Save the children" is now such an organizing principle that holiday parties have turned into dreaded occasions where someone will undoubtedly wax on existential about how a public school is trying to force someone’s kid to identify as a cat only to be trafficked in Haiti. But when Andrew and Tristan Tate—two men facing accusations in multiple countries of rape, sex trafficking, coercion, and the exploitation of women—entered the movement's orbit, something remarkable happened. Suddenly, the movement that claimed to believe every institution was failing sex abuse victims became deeply interested in the presumption of innocence and deeply concerned about the weaponization of woke against our precious men and boys.And what has this Frankenculture of machismo and powdered supplements gotten us as a society? A violent, erotic fixation on male hierarchy. Not women. Not ever women. Women in the manosphere are props, punishment