The rise of influencers like Andrew Tate should be treated as a canary in the coal mine. It signals that something has gone badly wrong in how modern society treats boys and young men. Boys are not born resentful, retributive, or misogynistic. These traits are not innate. They are produced, by a culture that relentlessly pathologises male behaviour and treats masculinity as a moral defect rather than a neutral human trait. Importantly, this remains a fringe problem. Survey data consistently shows that the vast majority of boys and young men do not hold misogynistic attitudes. In fact, boys have never been more compliant, agreeable, and risk-averse. But when a society tells boys, explicitly and implicitly, that they are dangerous, defective, or guilty by default, some will push back. Andrew Tate is not the disease; he is the symptom. And that symptom will intensify for as long as masculinity itself is framed as suspect. In a society that cosplays equality while practising contempt, you might expect leaders to reconsider this approach. To observed the cognitive dissonance in their reach for a more egalitarian society. To acknowledge that misandry is real, harmful, and corrosive. To meet boys halfway. Instead, we get ideological doubling-down: denial, moral panic, and collective blame. Feminist radicalisation is ignored or excused, legitimate male grievance is dismissed, and boys are told the problem is them. That is not progress. It is how you manufacture the very outcome you claim to oppose. Even a mediocre policymaker should see where this ends. Badly. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9qe…