Everything You Need To Know About The New Andrew Tate Documentary

For those unfamiliar with the Manosphere, also called the Red Pill Movement in some circles, it was once a fast-growing online hub of mostly male influencers offering to teach men how to thrive financially, emotionally, and sexually by directly challenging mainstream ideas about masculinity, feminism, and sex. In more recent years, it has been rocked with exposés and scandals, with Andrew Tate's being the most notorious.

"Andrew Tate is one of the most infamous men in the world, preaching a controversial view of masculinity that’s drawn millions of fans," reads the documentary's description. "But now, he’s facing three legal cases in two countries on allegations including trafficking and rape, all of which he denies."

The Documentary

That sounds like solid true crime-style entertainment (plus, who wouldn't love to see the bombastically annoying Andrew Tate finally face justice for the despicable way he treats women?), but the producers somehow managed to make it incredibly boring. Probably because they chose to go in an NPR-esque approach to storytelling, complete with elevator music and a narrator's voice that sounds straight out of a local news channel.

Even worse, they brought in an academic "expert in extremism and polarization" who literally looks like the guy from the soy milk memes, and his only purpose was to repeat as many times as possible that the increasingly negative reaction to feminism is fueled exclusively by hate and misinformation – not because there are any legitimate, well-documented problems caused by feminism for men, women, and children. Come on, man. I thought we liked "nuance."

Rather than trying to push that particular narrative, I wish they would've just committed and turned it into an exciting, story-driven hour-long masterpiece that really showed us the seedy corners of the Manosphere rather than spending so much time robotically warning us about extremism.

Why the Manosphere Doesn't Deliver

The lame parts aside, I did enjoy the moments when Tate was exposed as the greedy, opportunistic, fame-chasing dork that he truly is. Pretty much any time he's on the screen, you can pick up on his desperation to be seen as powerful, which is ironic since attention-seeking and vanity are typically considered uniquely female vices in the manosphere, but this guy is as appearance-driven as they come.

The documentary also does a fairly good job of revealing the fatal flaw within many of the top red pill influencers, which is their own incredible selfishness combined with a deep prejudice toward women. At one point, when talking about a woman who claimed Tate strangled her during sex until she blacked out, Tate admits he enjoyed her suffering. “The more you didn’t like it, the more I loved it," he states. "Turned me on.” 

His combination of blatant selfishness and dislike toward the opposite sex is so ironic because these are the exact same qualities that many Manosphere leaders criticize in women – that they are inherently self-serving and don't care about men. Then, people like Andrew Tate simply repackage those same terrible vices for men rather than women and promise amazingly better results.

What these Tate types fail to see is that, just like many feminists have ruined the lives of naive young women with very bad definitions of "independence," many red pillers are also ruining the lives of young men because selfishness and distrust of women will never deliver the freedom and contentment they've promised them.

That's because, fundamentally, what makes a person successful in life and relationships is virtue, and virtue hinges on the ability to sacrifice your own interests out of love for others. Feminists and manosphere dudes have no idea how to do this, and many of them don't want to learn. They just want what they want from the opposite sex as a means to their own happiness, not because they actually want to make another person happy.

Disturbing Allegations

The most disturbing part of the documentary is definitely when they get into Tate's alleged sex trafficking crimes that took place in his creepy, heavily guarded compound in Romania.

While some are still defending him as innocent (they say that the women who participated in his webcam business did so consensually), it's hard to imagine how any reasonable person doesn't think he's guilty, given that he refers to himself as a pimp multiple times and is on camera speaking openly about how he manipulates women emotionally and sexually for the specific purpose of exploiting them for money. Those who worked closely with him in the bizarre "War Room" online community said that he advised men to shower women with affection before sleeping with them, and then once they were "soul-locked," to coerce her into doing various forms of porn or prostitution.

However, there is a decent possibility he could get away with it because of lax laws in Romania. “I like living in countries where corruption is accessible to everyone," he explained at one point, which the documentary highlighted.

Interestingly, that moment also highlights a significant crack in the Manosphere's foundation. If feminism is a form of societal corruption (and you can make a good case that it is), is the solution really more corruption? For men like Tate, the corruption itself isn't the problem. He's just upset when he's not the one doing the corrupting.

"Andrew Tate doesn't provide for women," noted one commenter, pointing out another subtle layer of hypocrisy in Tate's "alpha" persona. "Women provide for Andrew Tate."

Closing Thoughts

The ongoing Andrew Tate drama casts a dark shadow on the Manosphere. What began as a purportedly noble pursuit of redefining masculinity and challenging societal taboos has devolved into a sordid tale of exploitation and alleged criminality. Fundamentally, his story shows why selfish ideologies fall so short, whether they're employed in the name of feminism or becoming a powerful man. Rediscovering virtue is the answer both sexes are looking for but can't seem to find.

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