# Andrew Tate

Emory Andrew Tate III (born December 1, 1986) is an American and British social media personality, businessman and a former professional kickboxer. After beginning to offer paid courses and memberships through his website, he became an online influencer spreading misogynistic commentary resulting in his suspension from some social media platforms.
On December 29, 2022, Tate and his brother, Tristan, were arrested in Romania, and charged with human trafficking and forming an organized crime group. Romanian police have alleged victims were coerced into creating paid pornography for social media and on June 20, 2023, they were charged with rape, human trafficking and forming an organized crime group to sexually exploit women. Both men reject all charges. Previously restricted from leaving the country, they were allowed to fly to Florida on February 27, 2025.

## Quotes
### 2022

* Don't let fear hold you back. Fear is just a thought, and thoughts can be controlled. Embrace the unknown, and you'll find your real potential.(https://thechiefsdigest.com/andrew-tate-quotes/)
* [On how he would respond to a woman if she accused him of adultery.] It's bang out the machete, boom in her face and grip her by the neck. Shut up bitch.
* [On his move to Romania, avoiding rape charges being "probably 40% of the reason"] I'm not a rapist, but I like the idea of just being able to do what I want. I like being free.
* [Tate's comment from one of his videos.] I inflict, I expect, absolute loyalty from my woman [...] I ain't having my chicks talking to other dudes, liking other dudes. My chicks don't go to the club without me, they are at home.
** From a profile by Shanti Das "Inside the violent, misogynistic world of TikTok’s new star, Andrew Tate", The Observer (August 6, 2022)
* absolutely a misogynist (YouTube video)
* I'm a realist and when you're a realist you're sexist. There's no way you can be rooted in reality and not be sexist. (same YouTube video)
* playing a comedic character (statement to The Guardian)
* Internet sensationalism has purported the idea that im [sic] anti women when nothing could be further from the truth. (statement to The Guardian)
** As cited in "'Dangerous misogynist' Andrew Tate removed from Instagram and Facebook", The Guardian (August 19, 2022)
* Romania is a beautiful place. There's no feminists, there's no open homosexuality. [...] No homosexual agenda. No feminists. It's corrupt, which suits me because I'm fucking rich. [...] No immigrants or refugees which is great because it means no one gets stabbed.
* I love Trump, he’s the best we could ever have hoped for.
** As quoted in "Act Now: Tech platforms must act against dangerous misogynist Andrew Tate", Hope not Hate (August 19, 2022)
* [On a need for authority over the women he dates.] You can't be responsible for a dog if it doesn’t obey you.
* [In response to the claims of sexual assault made against Harvey Weinstein.] If you put yourself in a position to be raped, you must [bear] some responsibility. I'm not saying it's OK you got raped.
** Cited in "TikTok and Meta ban self-described misogynist Andrew Tate", The Washington Post (August 21, 2022)
* [On his assertion women are men's property.] I'm not saying they're property [...] I am saying they are given to the man and belong to the man.
** From an interview with the Barstool Sports BFF (July 2022) podcast, cited in "Why Social Media Sites Are Removing Andrew Tate’s Accounts", The New York Times (August 24, 2022)
* [In a video for Hustler's University, considered a scam by the media, on how to gain further recruits via online comments.] What you ideally want is a mix of 60-70 per cent fans and 30-40 per cent haters [...] You want arguments, you want war.
** Cited in "At home with Andrew Tate, the face of toxic masculinity", The Times (London, September 24, 2022)
* Hello @GretaThunberg I have 33 cars. My Bugatti has a w16 8.0L quad turbo. My TWO Ferrari 812 competizione have 6.5L v12s. This is just the start. Please provide your email address so I can send a complete list of my car collection and their respective enormous emissions.
** December 27, 2022 tweet to Greta Thunberg, two days prior to his arrest in Romania. Thunberg responded: "Yes, please do enlighten me. email me at smalldickenergy@getalife.com". Exchange as cited in "From Luton to porn millionaire: how Andrew Tate became master of misogyny", The Sunday Times (December 31, 2022)
* It appears the insanity of the ruling elite is exposed worldwide now. They have one command, do not speak out, behave as sheep.
** Tweet after arrest, cited in "Andrew Tate blames arrest on 'insanity of ruling elite' as he prepares appeal", The Telegraph (London, December 31, 2022)

### 2023–present

* The more you didn't like it, the more I enjoyed it. I f**king loved how much you hated it.
** Alleged voice mail cited in "Tucker Carlson's Twitter interview with Andrew Tate: Elon Musk is really getting desperate", Salon (July 13, 2023)
* This is a set-up. It is absolutely disgusting. Thirty of those girls say we have done nothing wrong. Two are the mothers of our children.
** Outside the court (22 August 2024), as cited by Sarah Rainsford in "Andrew Tate put under house arrest as new charges emerge", BBC News (22 August 2024)
** Under investigation for alleged sex with an underage person and trafficking an underage person, Tate was placed under house arrest after being taken into custody the previous day. Of the 35 alleged victims, one woman was 15 at the time.

## About Tate

    In alphabetical order by author or source.
* Men are expected to spend their lives working for women and children that are not their own. They can be ejected from a marriage at any time, for any reason, and by default will lose their children in the process. It is little wonder that, as in the Roman Empire, “marriage became unfashionable, especially among the men—but perhaps it would be more just to say that marriage on these terms was despised, for there seemed to be few advantages to be gained, many to be lost” (Unwin 1934). Conservative commentators often lament this attitude and blame influencers like Andrew Tate, but they confuse the cause for the effect. Men didn’t suddenly change their attitude towards marriage; marriage itself changed and men’s attitudes have slowly adjusted to the new reality. Browbeating and hectoring (“man up!”) cannot replace the old incentives.
** Aporia Magazine, Human Reproduction as Prisoner's Dilemma, 22 January 2025
* [W]hat he is doing today online fits every international definition of radicalisation. It takes a situation where there is a power imbalance and suggests that the one with the power is actually the minority. It is how all radicalisation works. These young people have been groomed. It starts with a viral YouTube video of a takedown of a feminist argument. It starts with a picture of a woman with a black eye. It is a drip, drip, drip, which eventually leads to real-world consequences.
** Laura Bates cited in "From Luton to porn millionaire: how Andrew Tate became master of misogyny"The Sunday Times (December 31, 2022)
* Tate was a very important voice for an emasculated ... you three guys, you are all 25, you are all kind of being told you can't be blokes, you can't do laddish, fun, bloke things ... That's almost what you're being told. That masculinity is something we should look down upon, something we should frown upon. It's like the men are becoming feminine and the women are becoming masculine and it's a bit difficult to tell these days who's what.
* And Tate fed into that by saying, "Hang on, what's wrong with being a bloke? What's wrong in male culture? What's wrong in male humour?" He fed into those things. His was a campaign of raising awareness, his was a campaign of giving people perhaps a bit of confidence at school or whatever it was to speak up.
* [He] maybe took that alter-ego of masculinity too far in his relationships with women.
** Nigel Farage in a Strike It Big podcast interview (February 2024), as cited by Rowena Mason and Ben Quinn in "Farage said Andrew Tate was 'important voice' for men in podcast interview", The Guardian (20 June 2024)
** The ellipsis are in the original source.
* Postliberals who loathe Tate imagine the multiracial working class as resolutely anti-capitalist. Anyone familiar with “grindset” knows blacks and Hispanics don’t want to overthrow the capitalist system. They want to game it to achieve the American Dream. This, of course, often leads them into pyramid schemes and other harebrained endeavors--which Tate seems to actively promote. But their stupid attempts don’t disabuse them of American capitalism. The promise of wealth attracts them more than the pseudo-Marxism espoused by an irrelevant Beltway intelligentsia.
** Scott Greer, Andrew Tate Vs. The Multiracial Working Class Myth, Highly Respected, 29 July 2023
* Andrew Tate is probably the most famous internet celebrity in the world right now. In recent weeks he has been Googled more often than the President of America, more often than Donald Trump and more often than most major pop stars. As of this week, the #AndrewTate hashtag has over 12.7 billion views on TikTok.
* It is no secret that the internet is awash with ugly and harmful content. However, it is rare when someone like Andrew Tate rises to become one of the most famous people on social media because of their harmful content. While many are already speaking out against Tate, there is a legion of (primarily male) supporters who consume, venerate and share his dangerous content. Here in the UK, it is not an exaggeration to say that many young students returning to school at the end of the summer holidays will have seen something produced by Andrew Tate. The effect that Tate’s brand of vitriolic misogyny can have on the young male audience is deeply concerning. His content is widely celebrated by his fans for having brought back "traditional masculinity". However, we also know that misogyny can be a gateway to other extreme and discriminatory views, and there is a serious danger that some people, sucked in by his sexist content, will align with his wider far-right politics.
** "Act Now: Tech platforms must act against dangerous misogynist Andrew Tate" Hope not Hate (August 19, 2022)
* And then there is Andrew Tate. How does a man like this become a "trillionaire" guru to teenage boys? You may think he is ludicrous: a globular kickboxing star and former Big Brother contestant. But his reach is staggering: over 11 billion views on TikTok. And what is he pouring into young minds? Streams of grim misogyny: tales of hitting women, choking them, smashing their faces in if they cheat, while maintaining that any cheating on his part is just "exercise". It is as if someone has taken every type of woman-hater you can think of — a footballer, an incel, an Arab sheikh, the Tinder Swindler — and rolled them into one menacing, manscaped action doll, given them loads of guns, money and cars and made them say worse things than Donald Trump. He is a God to many boys.
** Camilla Long "The ascent of a lowlife like Andrew Tate proves that misogyny is baked into our everyday lives" The Sunday Times (January 1, 2023)
* We had a good chat, Tate and I, but the guy gives me the horrors. Not all the time, but enough of the time, I simply hate what he thinks. If I had a son, I'd hate the thought of him being exposed to it, and I’m far from wild about my daughters having to deal with teenage boys who have soaked it in. I even agonised about whether I ought to do this interview. Although if the most googled man on the planet can't be written about in a newspaper, then I’m honestly not sure what any of us are here for.
** Hugo Rifkind "At home with Andrew Tate, the face of toxic masculinity" The Times (September 24, 2022)

## External links

* "The Violent Misogynist Reaching Millions: A Briefing on Andrew Tate" Hope not Hate (August 2022)