Andrew Tate, how the hack!
hack the system?
I am currently watching a fairly recent BBC documentary about Andrew Tate. I must admit, the formula of these mainstream documentaries doesn't entirely resonate with me as I prefer more independent analysis, but it opens paths that I delve into deeper and deeper. The entire manosphere, 4chan, right-wing bubbles, elixirs for muscles (studied by Joshua Citarella), and muscles for seducing women - sexual slaves who will do anything after receiving Pavlovian training by graduates of Pimpin Hoes Degree (Tate’s Ph.D. program that is now deleted).
There’s a lot of violence toward women, not necessarily always physical, caused by him and his influence. It reminds me of the dynamics from my own backyard, from Eastern Europe, which Tate speaks so well about, and that's why he moved there because it's not yet so tainted by the #MeToo garbage. But this man with his narcissistic-psychopathic self-assurance knows how the legal system is flawed and has many of his defenders including some women. Women who say feminists have made women unhappy.
Honey Badger, a channel run by female activists for men's rights just recently posted a poll about why men are opting out of approaching women - to avoid false accusations. Maybe because influenced by Tate, they are like him in denial - when we know from the facts those false accusations are very rare. Tate, knowing how the justice system works by not believing the victims and being in favor only of those with better (more expensive) lawyers - has already been instructed to claim innocence, even though manipulation and psychological violence are extremely hard to prove anyway. I also think there are some blamers who probably say the Tate cult’s victims just got what they wanted and willingly landed in the hands of repeat offenders.
These are all the adversaries of the old system of female subjugation. I am thinking of all viral contagion, algorithms, and AI. Scammers recently hacked my Instagram account (so I need to start from scratch) and other profiles - we were all connected network of artists/feminists. Although I doubt it was intentional to break our network - it certainly works like sabotage - it all operates like an uncontrolled poisonous fungus - pro-Tate and anti-egalitarian virality. It's not a conspiracy - it's an operating system. Also working with ChatGPT I was not the only one who noticed how biased its algorithm is. This kind of censorship operates by limiting our access to certain fields of knowledge. Unfortunately and not accidentally concerning female representatives as female bodies are sexualized even in the medical context. I was warned of infringing GPT’s guidelines while I was working on some official ministerial French report about porn crime revealing women’s exploitation in the industry owned by the male lobby.
It is all just a reflection of the operating system that we are programmed by. This system is old and needs an update severely. I don't know how should we start to reprogram but I see many adversaries of the archaic dysfunctionalities. Maybe it feels safer to them to stick to it but how oppressive and unjust it is for the rest? We are saturated with it in every deepest cell of our traumatized bodies, our cells replicate with it. But we humans can break the vicious cycle. We have our minds that are wiser than any AI or old rigid traditions and our hearts so we can feel while robots can’t. We can hack that system by using them to recognize, unlearn, and eventually transform and adjust it. We also need all reasonable and good-hearted adversaries of every kind of gender, origin, or class. Like White Ribbon for example. And sure, the next one won't be perfect, but for sure can be better.
I echo Andrea Dworkin:
I want to suggest to you that a commitment to sexual equality with males, that is, to uniform character as of motion or surface, is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered. I want to ask you to make a different commitment - a commitment to the abolition of poverty, rape and murder; that is, a commitment to ending the system of oppression called patriarchy; to ending the male sexual model itself.
(Andrea Dworkin, Our Blood, p. 12)
Hi, I am Joanna Szproch, a middle-aged woman, a mother of an adult daughter, and an empiricist, and thinker. I am from Generation X, I was born and lived in communist Poland, experienced its transformation, and more than a decade ago I left to become a Berlin resident. Here is where I create, teach, and explore the mystery of life. I launched this channel to share my subjective observations and conclusions, that may be right, or not. This may be a good background for understanding my artistic practice, a place for a dialog, or perhaps another beginning point for us to create something new. I have a deep need to share my position without proving it right and I will be glad if it resonates with you. If it doesn’t please don’t follow.