Andrew Tates rise is a reaction to the feminization of culture, claims Coleman Hughes on We Never Had This Conversation podcast

Self-described misogynist Andrew Tate’s soaring popularity with young men comes as a reaction to the “feminization” of popular culture, according to 28-year-old political commentator and author Coleman Hughes.“Insofar as Andrew Tate’s kind of masculine, male chauvinist politics are popular, part of the reason for that is a backlash to this feminization of culture,” Hughes said.He points to the war on ‘toxic masculinity’ perpetuated by the left, particularly in education, which sometimes extends to shaming normal boyish behavior, like policing horsing around as part of the “anti-bullying” movement.“As a reaction to the excesses of that, it creates a vacuum where someone like Andrew Tate can come in and just talk about fighting and denigrating women,” Hughes says on the latest episode of “We Never Had This Conversation,” a podcast hosted by The Post’s Rikki Schlott in Bill Maher’s Club Random network.British-American Tate boasts over 10 million followers on X and runs a non-accredited “Hustler’s University” alongside his brother Tristan.

Tate has previously said women should “bear responsibility” for being sexually assaulted and other inflammatory comments, leading him to be kicked off most other social media platforms.The brothers are currently awaiting trial in Romania on sex crime charges.Hughes said fellow Gen Z men are becoming more conservative in response to various pointers from society such as headlines like “Toxic Masculinity Is Killing Us” from left wing, female dominated mainstream publications like Vogue, precisely the kind of hyperbolic anti-male messages which push young men to the opposite extreme.“Once we moved..

to third wave feminism… that is really about constantly pointing the finger at toxic masculinity, making boys and men feel guilty and wrong for acting in the ways that are more typically male, I think you get a backlash to that, and that backlash expresses itself politically as conse...