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Moria walks Adrian through the biography of manosphere influencer Andrew Tate. Last weekend, under pressure from the Trump administration, the country of Romania agreed to let Tate (who is credibly accused of a whole raft of sex and financial crimes in the country) leave for Florida. (Note that we will have further episodes on Tate, but are still nailing down the guests for them. Because after dangling our toes in his content ... no way we're watching all of that!)

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Benjamin Graham

Perhaps I missed it, but is there an RSS feed for the podcast yet?

Teja

Another vote to please enable this!

Charlotte

The Cybertruck story is 100% the content I'm here for! Vicarious schadenfreude, yessss...

Amy

Thank you for this episode. I have been reeling from the Pelicot episode, and this Tate episode has added some more clarity to my thinking. I have been wondering about the alliance between Christian Dominionists and Tech Dominionists (how do their bonds work, how long will they last, etc). There has always been a strong misogynist connection, but the discussion of large scale or industrialized rape is eye opening. I am also preoccupied by (and would love to hear a lot from Moira and Adrian about) a renewed and refocused feminist activism in our current circumstances. And what are other subscribers reading or listening to?

Paul Crider

OKAY FINE. I bought a hoodie. But I'm blaming you when my wife heckles me for having yet another Internet hoodie. Also I think you should make an art design for your crypto scam and then sell it on merch. How about three boutique IBWTR coins? PervCoin, CreepCoin, and PreachCoin to go with your three models of rightwing masculinity? Make circular stickers with the designs! Also, Moira's *alleged* misdemeanor brought me great joy.

Katie

If i must know about this hateful person, I’m glad to have him explained to me by people I admire.

Nina V~

please don't feel the need to apologize for this ep being "late," we're all being doused with a firehose of gender bullshit daily lately, and i applaud y'all for keeping your heads in this extremely awful timeline.

Elizabeth

I don’t see hoodies as an option on the swag site!

Charlotte

Question for Adrian, if he has time/inclination to answer: For someone who owns both your German and your English book on cancel culture, which one would you read first? Do you consider the English book to completely supercede the German one? (I apologise if this has been answered in some obvious public place where I didn't see it.) My first impulse is to go in publication order.

In Bed With the Right

Oh, wow, thank you for buying both! The answer is: it depends on which version of this discourse you're most familiar with. The back half of the German edition (which is the only part that's really substantially different) spends a lot of time on how Germany imported US discourses, what specific article genres German-language media developed, etc. The English edition was my excuse to widen that scope a little bit!

Charlotte

Thank you for answering! :) Pretty familiar with both - I'm a German long-term transplant into the anglosphere, but I frequently return. The German discourse somehow seems more brain-dead, or maybe it just makes me angrier. I'll read the German first.

J Phoebus

Hey y’all - love you as you’re helping me through these times. I’d love you all to have a woman of color as a guest — if this has happened, forgive me. I’m speaking as a lonely academic who would love to hear a different perspective than from White progressive folks’ analysis. And, if you’re taking requests. Again, thanking you as a lonely academician who lives in a red area and appreciates an entirely different perspective than I’m normally used to.

Soren

Thanks for this episode! Hate this guy but I do look forward to a deeper dive

Cameron Hill

Finally signed up for patreon to listen to this episode. After today’s “men are being radicalized by women’s height requirements on dating apps” discourse on bluesky I needed to listen to someone talk about the manosphere without resorting to a solution of requiring women to become more sexually / romantically available to cis/het men (women being public property on the left, after all).

Karen

Thank you for this. I don't think you need to do a deeper dive on Tate. I think you summed up what we need to know. The banality of sociopathic con artists.

jacq

Got patreon for the first time ever to subscribe. I love this podcast!! Also, late to this post, but is IBWTR thinking about doing a show on Barstool/Dave Portnoy? feels like so much could overlap w/ the Tate conversation..

Lyss

They have! An early episode on “the Morehouse man”, featuring the amazing Saida Grundy. One of my favorites they’ve done!

Belle

God this makes me so scared

Alice Kron

Feeling conflicted because I want to buy merch but I don't want people to think I'm ACTUALLY in bed with the right. Sorry guys 💔

Keely S

Thank you, Moira, for talking about the dignity harm for women. That's been missing in so much coverage of Tate and the Manosphere and is SUCH a crucial lens to center when talking about the current state of masculinity on the Internet. I'm so grateful for both of your thoughtful coverage of topics like this.

Danielle De Lano

"very cheesy and a little bit cheap" makes me think of Jeffree Star as well - selling an aspirational wealth that also feels really childish (which if y'all don't listen to A Bit Fruity, please treat yourself)