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GIORDANO: Andrew Tate The Incarnate Jerry Lewis of Macho Politics
By Alice Giordano
Two years before President Trump’s Special Envoy Richard Grenell, an openly gay man, proudly embraced his X posts in which he weirdly celebrated a self-professed misogynist that being Andrew Tate — the American Spectator ran a column entitled “There’s Something Queer About Andrew Tate.”
In it, conservative author Stephen Adubato compares Tate’s tight shorts and shirtless exhibitionisms to the lasciviousness of drag queens and how they both use deviant sexual fetishes to feed their need for attention.
Adubato emphasized that he wasn’t suggesting that Tate actually wants to engage in homosexual acts, but rather mimicks the same “homosexual archetype” used to coerce others to engage in morally depraved ways as way to stigmatize masculine virtues. In other words to diss men who respect women.
If he’s right, Tate has managed to turn more than 10 million males apparently suffering from the same immense insecurity that has driven him to “red pill” or to put it more bluntly — seduce others like him.
In trying to resist the make it make sense cliche, temptation wins out.
So I turn to the experts.
The American Psychological Association (APA) clinically defines a pervert as someone that possesses impulses for sexual gratification in an abnormal manner with apathy towards normalcy. Sounds kinda dead to right to Tate already.
And then add in the APA’s secondary definition of inferiority complex.
While many suffering from an inferiority complex outwardly suffer from low self-esteem, there is the other kind of patient the APA describes — the one who uses grandiosity to mask their insecurity. It gives the example of the Napoleon complex, which sometimes drives a short man to as the APA states “over compensate” his shortcomings.
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This brings me to my title.
Jerry Lewis was described as a predator by many women who worked on sets with him, in other words like Tate — a misogynist.
Tate is known for saying things like women belong at home, shouldn’t be allowed to drive, “are a man’s property” and one of his latest rant laced with an intellect tantamount to a five year old’s potty talk — that men should break up with their girlfriends if “they won’t do porn.”
At the 1988 Comedy Arts Festival, Lewis peppered his louche chauvinism by mocking women comedians as nothing more than “producing machines that bring babies into the world.”
The slapstick comedian eventually confessed himself to be a selfish, unctuous man who self-medicated with egomania. That separates him from the stolidly vain Tate.
Nevertheless, it did little for Lewis’s predatorial reputation — a pedophile to be specific — marrying his 13-year old cousin, making him officially also a pervert as per APA definition.
Gay rumors also swirled about Lewis, particularly over his excessive public fawning of co-star and longtime pal Dean Martin. In parallel, a post on X unraveled into a lengthy thread of a video of Tate with the epithet “Tate has absurdly gay mannerisms.”
Connecting all the dots — Tate and Lewis both use exaggerated shticks — like a drag queen does. And most drag queens have sexual deviancy issues. Perverts are sexual deviants afterall and insecure men who follow them, typically do so because, well, as we know from the left — deviancy loves company.
Meanwhile, Tate has proudly promoted “manospheria” (a fantastic euphemism for insecure men) that rape is an act often deserved by women and by the very least brought on by them.
Apparently he has never sat in a courtroom and listened to case after case of women and girls assaulted while out jogging, sleeping in their beds, or riding their bicycles to the store. Not that women raped by dates or at a party are any less victims.
Summarily in Tate’s larged-lettered books, physical capabilities of men excuses bad behavior.
As women, it is okay to be thankful to good men like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis who told Tate and his sidekick brotherTristan they weren’t welcomed in the Sunshine State and to the long list of other Republican leaders who have made it clear that the Tates turn their stomachs.
Bravo to Republican Missouri Senator Josh Hawley for ridiculing the Tate brothers as having “fake bravado” in his 2023 book: “Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs.” And to Ben Shapiro and Dave Portnoy, to name a few more high-profile right wingers, who drew a line when it came to joining in the servile drool over the sight of these real life Tweedledee and Tweedledum duo.
And yes many of us Trumpians remain admittedly stupefied that our otherwise beloved President supports these infantile goons.
In as much we want to topple men like the Tates, we should hail these good ones like Hawley, Shapiro, Desantis, Portnoy, and Adubato. Nothing wrong with men who hold the door open for us or pull out our chairs.
Outdated chivalry is certainly better than trendy misogyny afterall.
Like Lewis, Tate is an actor that seems to be suffering from an underlying problem. Their obvious difference is that Tate’s audience is too.
So when it comes to Gordian idolizers like Grenell, it may just be that their medicine cabinets are filled with endless bottles of red pills, since Andrew Tate is sadly just what the doctor ordered for insecure males.
Like any addict, the question now is, with so many good men outing these gay dogs for what they are — will the others get the help they need or will they just get a refill.
