Some have suggested that young men are drawn to Andrew Tate because they suffer from a dearth of social contact. Yet men go to Tate not to alleviate loneliness but to intensify it.
Netflix's four-part series puts guessing games aside and instead tells a dark, timely, conversation-starting story.
Poet Terry Adams relates how a sensitive child might learn about the intricate relationship between bullets and death.
Many young men seem to admire Trump’s king-of-the-jungle vibe: he roars, he bellows, he boasts that no one can ever beat him (unless they cheat). He isn’t an icon of positive masculinity. He did very little for young men during his term as president
The comedian’s remarks on a podcast join his cheerleading of genocidal violence and jokes about suffering children in Gaza
For many young men, the imaginary dinosaur symbolized everything they were terrified of being: vulnerable, kind, and loving.
A generous reading might consider the show a corrective to the original, particularly because women, people of color, and queer folks now work the stacks at Championship Vinyl. A more skeptical take is that even this is morally suspect.
The series is a long, poisoned bath in male toxicity. It was one of the best new dramas of the year.
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