> The power of social media sadly outweighs years of good parenting.
I consider myself very lucky that my years of mediocre parenting have led to my son largely rejecting social media, and adopting progressive attitudes to pretty much every subject I can think of.
I think the mistake that some make is thinking you can “train” young people to reject negative ideas. All we did was allow the boy to experience diversity and positivity and let him form his own opinions. We did our best to encourage him in activities and opportunities that didn’t leave much time for social media. But I wouldn’t hold myself up as a model parent.
I’ve friends who are teachers all over the world and they are increasingly worried about the popularity of this man and his ilk. Kids end up parroting his misogyny and bigotry, ignoring women teachers and making their jobs so much harder.
It’s not just Tate, there are so many of these manosphere podcasters around. I try to influence my algorithm by reporting or asking not see them but they still pop up. There are a fair few women parroting these views for money and clicks too.
I thought the title was a quote from him at first and thought it was incredibly ironic.
Unfortunately raising children has become so much harder and depressing because of the Internet and social media.
This is another reason kids should not be on social media. When I was a teenager, social media was only just taking off and it was all about posting stupid statuses, doing quizzes and spending hours agonising over what wallpaper to use. No one took it seriously and no one got their news from it. It has warped considerably since then and kids are now much more vulnerable as algorithms make it so easy to find extreme content, while sites do little to moderate extreme content in the first place. People like Andrew Tate, who would have been nobodies back when I was a teenager, are now minor celebrities and young people increasingly look up to them. Social media is a real danger now and parents need to take it much more seriously now we know the effects it has on children.
I’m still convinced he’s some kind of character, no way someone could be that self-unaware and stupid.
However, even if he *is* a satirical character, that doesn’t mean the stuff he says won’t be taken seriously by young guys.
Plenty of young guys didn’t realise Ali G was a satirical character when he first became big, I was a young teenager at the time and remember it well. But nothing he said even as the character was particularly bad, and certainly not dangerous.
I’d never heard of this guy until a couple of days ago. But he must be pretty significant to get such a long BBC article dedicated to him.
He is mentioned in the same breath as Elon Musk and Donald Trump, so I guess he must be important. Especially as apparently he has recently been interviewed by Piers Morgan.
The BBC are painting him as a cartoon bad boy, but reading between the lines I think they secretly rate him quite highly. Otherwise why so much attention?
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> The power of social media sadly outweighs years of good parenting.
I consider myself very lucky that my years of mediocre parenting have led to my son largely rejecting social media, and adopting progressive attitudes to pretty much every subject I can think of.
I think the mistake that some make is thinking you can “train” young people to reject negative ideas. All we did was allow the boy to experience diversity and positivity and let him form his own opinions. We did our best to encourage him in activities and opportunities that didn’t leave much time for social media. But I wouldn’t hold myself up as a model parent.
I’ve friends who are teachers all over the world and they are increasingly worried about the popularity of this man and his ilk. Kids end up parroting his misogyny and bigotry, ignoring women teachers and making their jobs so much harder.
It’s not just Tate, there are so many of these manosphere podcasters around. I try to influence my algorithm by reporting or asking not see them but they still pop up. There are a fair few women parroting these views for money and clicks too.
I thought the title was a quote from him at first and thought it was incredibly ironic.
Unfortunately raising children has become so much harder and depressing because of the Internet and social media.
This is another reason kids should not be on social media. When I was a teenager, social media was only just taking off and it was all about posting stupid statuses, doing quizzes and spending hours agonising over what wallpaper to use. No one took it seriously and no one got their news from it. It has warped considerably since then and kids are now much more vulnerable as algorithms make it so easy to find extreme content, while sites do little to moderate extreme content in the first place. People like Andrew Tate, who would have been nobodies back when I was a teenager, are now minor celebrities and young people increasingly look up to them. Social media is a real danger now and parents need to take it much more seriously now we know the effects it has on children.
I’m still convinced he’s some kind of character, no way someone could be that self-unaware and stupid.
However, even if he *is* a satirical character, that doesn’t mean the stuff he says won’t be taken seriously by young guys.
Plenty of young guys didn’t realise Ali G was a satirical character when he first became big, I was a young teenager at the time and remember it well. But nothing he said even as the character was particularly bad, and certainly not dangerous.
I’d never heard of this guy until a couple of days ago. But he must be pretty significant to get such a long BBC article dedicated to him.
He is mentioned in the same breath as Elon Musk and Donald Trump, so I guess he must be important. Especially as apparently he has recently been interviewed by Piers Morgan.
The BBC are painting him as a cartoon bad boy, but reading between the lines I think they secretly rate him quite highly. Otherwise why so much attention?