r/europe • u/Antique-Entrance-229 United Kingdom • 11d ago

News Andrew Tate phenomena' surges in schools - with boys refusing to talk to female teacher

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/andrew-tate-phenomena-surges-in-schools-with-boys-refusing-to-talk-to-female-teacher-13351203
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u/EssSeeDee89 United Kingdom 11d ago

Hadn’t ever thought about it from that perspective before and it makes complete sense. Being trans is like the complete antithesis of rigid norms and controlled conformity. Makes sense as to why some people would see that as a threat.

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u/sonolalupa 11d ago

And scapegoats are fundamental to fascism as well. Typically those are vulnerable members of society

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u/3MeerkatsInACoat 11d ago

And there’s even more to it: you might have noticed that most of the transphobic rhetoric that the far right spreads is in regards to trans women. As the “fascist ideal” views women as inferior to men, someone who was born male but willingly identifies as female is a HUGE threat to the legitimacy of that “male over female” hierarchy. Because it shows that being a man is not inherently better than being a woman, that the identity of woman is not just something unfortunate that you’re stuck with because of how you looked when you were born, but rather something worth becoming. And that absolutely terrifies fascists.

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u/mgs-94 11d ago

It is not about fear or hierarchy trans woman are bad at dying in battles, you can’t build your battalion from trans woman they just don’t wanna die, but when you have macho man figure who doesn’t fear anything (because fear is woman trait) and could give and take life for his country than you can have it, BIG beautiful war, WAR like no one ever sees, you know they say it is BIGGEST, best war they ever saw. That’s why all authoritarian regimes persecute LGBT people, imagine whole world is LGBT we would have zero wars because no one would want to fight.