Some conservatives (including many Trump supporters) have fallen prey to the Tate brothers’ views. If the Trump administration is really sincere about kicking wokeism to the curb, and preserving the traditional notions of family (including marriage, fatherhood and motherhood), keeping a safe distance from the Tate brothers and their version of “manhood” would be a step in the right direction.
It’s no secret that the new US administration has been trying (at least outwardly) to defeat the lunacy of wokeism since Donald Trump took power in January this year.
In a landmark Day One executive order, Trump proclaimed that the US government only recognizes two sexes – male and female. Moreover, the president banned the use of federal funding to flaunt gender ideology.
“The war on women’s sports is over,” Trump also declared as he inked an executive order titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports”.
Besides, Trump rescinded 78 of former US leader Joe Biden’s executive orders, including various policies that promoted LGBTQ+ ideologies, including one Biden-era directive that stipulated that it was “the policy of the United States to ensure that all [so-called] transgender individuals who wish to serve in the United States military and can meet the appropriate standards shall be able to do so openly” and without alleged “discrimination.”
The list goes on.
While conservatives worldwide heaved a sigh of relief at some of Trump’s “common-sense” policies, the fight for traditional Catholic family values in today’s America (and the world) is still far from over.
For one, the high-profile release of the self-declared “misogynist influencer” Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan, as well as the brothers’ alleged ties to some members of the Trump administration, certainly raised eyebrows among various conservatives worldwide.
(To his credit, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a practising Catholic, publicly expressed disapproval of the Tate brothers in his state.)
Promoting a Tate-like version of “manhood” is definitely not the antidote to help millions of men who have been unfortunately feeling emasculated amidst leftists’ cry against “the oppressive patriarchy”.
Columnist Joanna Williams rightfully penned the following in her article on spiked, expressing her concerns about how some conservatives (including many Trump supporters) have fallen prey to the Tate brothers’ views:
“The Tates, it’s fair to say, divide opinion. On social media, at least. To some, they represent the downfall of civilisation, the corruption of youth and a two-man justification for restrictions on free speech. To others, the brothers are persecuted role models who embody the kind of no-nonsense, tough-guy masculinity that could save a generation of lost young men. Both of these extremes speak more to commentators’ own concerns and fears about the world today, and about teenage boys in particular, than the Tates’ actual influence. Many in Trump’s orbit seem to fall firmly into the latter camp. They imagine the Tates not as the vile misogynists they clearly are (and in Andrew’s case, has himself admitted to being), but as truth-speaking, macho martyrs. Every time he opens his mouth, Andrew Tate proves himself to be a gross stain on humanity. He has expressed a preference for 19-year-old women over older women because they are ‘fresh’ and easier for him to ‘put [his] imprint on’. He said he prefers petite women’. In a video captioned ‘How Tate handles his girls’, he talks about hitting an imaginary woman. In another, he imagines what he would do if a woman accused him of cheating: ‘It’s bang out the machete, boom in her face and grip her by the neck. Shut up, b***h!’ And it’s not just Andrew Tate’s words that are disturbing. There is a video of him appearing to hit a woman with a belt. Another shows him telling a woman to count the bruises he apparently left on her. He claims that ‘probably 40 per cent of the reason’ he moved to Romania is because of its laxer enforcement of rape laws. Then, of course, there are the actual charges being brought against him in the UK and Romania for, variously, alleged rape, trafficking, money laundering, tax evasion and forming an organised crime group to sexually exploit women. Despite all this, the Tates seem to be in good favour with the White House. The Sunday Times reports that Romanian prosecutors ceded to a request from the Trump administration to lift travel restrictions on the pair, which then allowed them to travel to Florida. Romania’s foreign minister has previously said that a Trump envoy raised the Tate brothers’ case during a conversation at the Munich Security Conference in Germany a fortnight ago. The question is: why? Why go out on a limb to rescue these scumbags from potential criminal proceedings?”
Williams is not alone in her comments about Tate.
Professional martial arts instructor, Jim O’Day criticized Tate’s perspectives on manhood, stating that such views actually undermine true masculinity itself.
By showcasing his propensities towards sexual gratification and domination over women, Tate has proven not to be a true man epitomizing self-mastery, sacrifice and service.
In a 2023 piece on First Things, pro-life speaker Jonathon Van Maren wrote:
“It is crucial to understand why he is wildly popular among men today. Tate made his money by turning his romantic partners into “camgirls” and selling their bodies to viewers online. On a now-deleted section of his website that pitches his tactics to other men, Tate wrote: ‘I’ve been running a webcam studio for nearly a decade, I’ve had over 75 girls work for me, and my business model is different from 99% of webcam studio owners. Over 50% of my employees were actually my girlfriend at the time and, of all my girlfriends, NONE were in the adult entertainment industry before they met me. . . . My job was to meet a girl, go on a few dates, sleep with her, test if she’s quality, get her to fall in love with me to where she’d do anything I say, and then get her on a webcam so we could become rich together.’
Leftists’ attempts to distort the God-given idea of the family (comprising a biological man, woman, and their children) should not be counterpoised by Tate’s version of self-serving, lust-driven, and pleasure-seeking “manhood”.
Andrew Tate is a symptom of our culture’s crisis of masculinity rather than a solution to it. He’s a self-described pornographer who says he is “too smart to read.” But what he does is “win.” He drives fancy cars, flies on private planes, lives in fancy mansions, and parties in dozens of countries. All the while, he markets himself as an opponent of “Western degeneracy” while boldly selling a different sort of degeneracy in response.”
Van Maren is spot-on.
Two wrongs do not make a right.
Unhinged feminism is undoubtedly cringeworthy, given that there are tons of good men out there who are to be encouraged in their virtues by supportive people (both men and women) around them.
Having said that, promoting a Tate-like version of “manhood” is definitely not the antidote to help millions of men who have been unfortunately feeling emasculated amidst leftists’ cry against “the oppressive patriarchy”.
Leftists’ attempts to distort the God-given idea of the family (comprising a biological man, woman, and their children) should not be counterpoised by Tate’s version of self-serving, lust-driven, and pleasure-seeking “manhood”.
Nonetheless, in the pornified world in which we live in today, thousands, if not millions, of young men, have fallen for Tate’s conceptions of “manhood” and “success” – hook, line, and sinker.
As mentioned in my previous posts on The Remnant, a pornified man (or woman), cannot truly love his or her own partner (in Holy Matrimony) as he or she would very likely use the other party for selfish reasons. Just as Tate would recoil in horror at the notion of having an “angry feminist” as a wife, he should not try to objectify women (who have also been created in the image and likeness of God) and boast of his “conquests” online – to the spiritual detriment and moral decay of his global audience.
Contrast Tate’s version of manhood with the masculinity espoused by St. Joseph, chaste spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary and foster father of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
In the person of St. Joseph, men can learn what it means to be a husband and a father. They must be self-sacrificing for women, children, and the common good. It is honourable for men to sacrifice themselves for others. Manhood and fatherhood are perfected through love, sacrifice, and faithfulness to those entrusted to their care.
Priest and author Fr. Donald Calloway, in his exhortations to Catholics to consecrate themselves to Saint Joseph, had this to say about the holy St.Joseph:
“In the person of St. Joseph, men can learn what it means to be a husband and a father. They must be self-sacrificing for women, children, and the common good. It is honourable for men to sacrifice themselves for others. Manhood and fatherhood are perfected through love, sacrifice, and faithfulness to those entrusted to their care. The exercise of such manhood is how husbands and fathers become pillars of civilization, and indeed, become holy. A world filled with men like St. Joseph will experience a renewal of social and moral order.”
St. Joseph did not put himself first in his holy life with Jesus and Mary. When he was told by an angel in a dream to flee with Our Lady and the infant Jesus to Egypt, he did so without hesitation.
Also, St. Joseph kept chaste relations with the Blessed Virgin Mary, honoring Our Lady’s dignity as his wife and as the Mother of God. It can be said that the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Joseph preserved their chastity through each other – in other words, while they were man and wife, they both helped each other to preserve the angelic virtue.
Unsurprisingly, Holy Mother Church accorded the title, “Joseph Most Chaste” to our holy saint. It is also noteworthy that in the Litany of St. Joseph, the titles “Joseph Most Chaste” and “Joseph Most Strong” go hand-in-hand, indicating that chastity is not a display of weakness. On the contrary, chastity and self-mastery is a sign of true virtue.
In a post on X, author Patrick Coffin succinctly elucidated how Tate’s worldview and lifestyle did not mesh with the teachings of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Catholic Faith. In his post, Coffin stated:
“Moral Corruption – Tate promotes a lifestyle of hedonism, materialism, and pride. Catholicism teaches humility, chastity, and self-sacrifice. His message leads people away from virtue, not toward holiness. Misogyny & Exploitation – Catholicism teaches the equal dignity of men and women in God’s image. Tate reduces women to commodities and objects of pleasure, directly contradicting Christian moral law.Pride & Arrogance – Christ calls us to humility. Tate glorifies dominance, self-worship, and power, rejecting the Christian model of servant leadership. True strength is in virtue, not ego. Greed & Materialism – Tate preaches wealth and status as the highest goods, while Catholicism warns against attachment to riches and the dangers of worldliness. ‘What does it profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his soul?’ (Mark 8:36).Unrepentant Sin – Instead of seeking conversion, he boasts about his sins, refuses accountability, and leads others into vice. A true leader leads souls to truth, not destruction. False Masculinity – Tate distorts true manhood. Masculinity is not about domination, lust, or wealth, but about virtue, responsibility, and self-sacrifice—modeled after Christ, not a corrupt influencer.”
If the Trump administration is really sincere about kicking wokeism to the curb, and preserving the traditional notions of family (including marriage, fatherhood and motherhood), keeping a safe distance from the Tate brothers and their version of “manhood” would be a step in the right direction.
St. Joseph, Honor of domestic life, Guardian of Virgins, Head of the Holy Family, pray for us.
