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Comment by stuckinhell | Hacker News Reader

Maybe but his family isn't. I'm trying my best to protect him, which is why it was so shocking when I checked his internet usage.

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The most you can do to protect him is the same that people do in hostile regimes throughout the ages: make sure that by a certain age he understands that there’s a difference between what’s actually right and wrong and what the powers that be expect him to adhere to. It’s okay to make a stand but only if you’re very sure that the upside is worth the costs. The people blasting anti-feminist content under their real identity, to no personal or societal gain, are idiots.

Are you a single mother? If so perhaps he is just looking for a male role model that tells him he is valued as a man and that its ok to be strong? Sometimes kids look for a stereotypically male role model. Someone that represents strength. I'm not defending all the bile that Tate puts out but dude is a well known figure that advocates for men to be manly. On the other hand, maybe he was just checking him out due to curiosity.

Happily Married. His father/ My husband and I do our best to spend time with him, take him to little league, etc. We tightly control television time, monitor internet usage, and videogames, but I doubt it will ever be enough.

Anyone with little kids knows, they absorb social messaging about gender roles, rank and hierarchy like sponges.

Andrew Tate seems wildly popular on discord, tiktok, roblox, minecraft, and youtube comments right now. I think you are right, my son and his friends are looking for someone to teach them to be strong "manly" men.

I don't think we've been teaching him how to physically and mentally strong. We've been pushing things more in line with our tech careers ...

Thank you for your comment. It's really given me something to think about.

Protect him from what, exactly?

People who aren't looking out for his best interests or use him as fodder for their various agendas.

Some people on hackernews think I need to educate my son on being guilty for being born male. Some men like Andrew Tate would just grift off of him. Some women on twitch would try to leech money from him.

I want to protect him from all the things that would destroy him.

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