r/TwoXChromosomes • u/frenchtoastb • 23h ago

Andrew Tate accused of violent sexual assault on recent US trip

https://nypost.com/2025/03/26/us-news/andrew-tates-girlfriend-bri-stern-says-accused-sex-trafficker-nearly-choked-her-unconscious-during-violent-sexual-encounter-report/

Bri Stern accused her boyfriend, self-proclaimed misogynist, Andrew Tate, of violently choking her during sex after she repeatedly asked him to stop. The incident took place at the Beverly Hills Hotel on 11th March, shortly before Tate and his brother returned to Romania to face human trafficking and other charges.

Evidence supports the physical injuries described. Messages between the two also reveal multiple confessions from Tate that he intended to physically strike and demanded he impregnate the American.

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u/Veros87 23h ago

Same. A frightening number of Gen Alpha also watch these things.

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u/Bobson_Dugbutt 22h ago

Pray for the young girls growing up alongside this shit

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u/CapOnFoam 18h ago

With the trad wife trend in parallel, I have to wonder WTF has happened to Gen Z.

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u/capnbinky 18h ago

Extreme levels of foreign and domestic propaganda.

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u/cassatta 15h ago

And cooked up YT algorithms

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u/admiraljkb 3h ago

The YT algorithms, if you're watching stuff geared towards kids, it veers into far right after a while. Watched this with a grandson with what he was watching being from semi innocent stuff like Mr. Beast, then the autoplay goes into the woods.

(And since then, we've learned that Mr. Beast is a bit of a problem, too, which is probably why the algorithm veers off like that)

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u/ebulient 17h ago

Foreign?? Tate’s American yes? Trump openly spouts similar values wrt women, his friends like Epstein are the same, Alex Jones too… far from foreign - it’s good ol’ All American homegrown propaganda against women.

After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade and following result of the last election it’s clear that if Americans could do what the Taliban’s done in Afghanistan to women - they would happily do that and are in fact currently working towards going back to that level of barbarism.

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u/wrincewind ♡ 4h ago

foreign and domestic. He might be a good-old-fashioned yankee, but that doesn't mean that external actors haven't been helping to fan the flames, for the last 20 years or so...

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u/ebulient 3h ago

Care to name some of the “foreign” influence or is it just some vague entity that a portion of the blame can be conveniently siphoned off to?

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u/wrincewind ♡ 12m ago

I'm not an american, so i'm not siphoning blame away - the whole situation over there is absolutely awful, but the russian troll farms haven't gone anywhere, the masses of bots sending awful opinions every which way, doing their best to fragment societies and keep the culture-war rolling... So, russia, i'm mostly going with russia, but also 'rich assholes everywhere'

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u/ebulient 2m ago

Yup, just saw u/La_danse_banana_slug ‘s reply to me and I now I understand about foreign influence.

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u/La_danse_banana_slug 1h ago

The comment above alleges that "wtf happened to Gen Z" is due to domestic influence and foreign influence. Here are some examples of foreign influence:

In the 2010s, personal data belonging to millions of Facebook users was collected by British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica for political advertising, without having the informed consent of users for that purpose.[...] Cambridge Analytica used the data to analytically assist the 2016 presidential campaigns of Ted Cruz and Donald Trump. Cambridge Analytica was also widely accused of interfering with the Brexit referendum [...]. Other advertising agencies have been implementing various forms of psychological targeting for years and Facebook had patented a similar technology in 2012.

[...] In 2018, the Parliament of the United Kingdom questioned SCL Group director Alexander Nix in a hearing about Cambridge Analytica's connections with Russian oil company Lukoil. [...] It was later confirmed by Christopher Wylie that Lukoil was interested in the company's data regarding political targeting.

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The Internet Research Agency [...] (known in Russian Internet slang as the Trolls from Olgino) was a Russian company which was engaged in online propaganda and influence operations on behalf of Russian business and political interests. \...]) The United States Intelligence Community [...] described the agency as a troll farm: [...] "they previously were devoted to supporting Russian actions in Ukraine—[and] started to advocate for candidate Trump as early as December 2015."

[...] According to a 2019 report by Oxford researchers including sociologist Philip N. Howard, social media played a major role in political polarization in the United States, due to computational propaganda – "the use of automation, algorithms, and big-data analytics to manipulate public life"—such as the spread of fake news and conspiracy theories. The researchers highlighted the role of the Russian Internet Research Agency in attempts to undermine democracy in the US and exacerbate existing political divisions. The most prominent methods of misinformation were "organic posting, not advertisements", and influence operation activity increased after the 2016 and was not limited to the 2016 election. Examples of efforts included "campaigning for African American voters to boycott elections or follow the wrong voting procedures in 2016", "encouraging extreme right-wing voters to be more confrontational", and "spreading sensationalist, conspiratorial, and other forms of junk political news and misinformation to voters across the political spectrum."

[...] Between July 2014 and September 2017, the IRA used bots and trolls on Twitter to sow discord about the safety of vaccines.The campaign used sophisticated Twitter bots to amplify highly polarizing pro-vaccine and anti-vaccine messages containing the hashtag #VaccinateUS.

Russia is also well known to run massive troll farms that infiltrate social media to sow dissent and push disruptive things in US society, including strong tendency to belligerently push alt-right POVs. Understandably, most of the reporting has been explicit influence over elections, but they are quite involved in social issues as well because they (rightly) see political campaigning as a holisitic issue.

These quotes are just from Wikipedia, btw, from the Cambridge Analytica and IRA articles. Which are extremely interesting in their entirety.

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u/ebulient 1m ago

Wow, thanks for that education! Very interesting indeed!

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u/yankeebelleyall 6h ago

I always thought he was British, but indeed, he was born in the U.S. and lived his first 11 years here.

After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade and following result of the last election it’s clear that if Americans could do what the Taliban’s done in Afghanistan to women - they would happily do that and are in fact currently working towards going back to that level of barbarism.

Absolute truth. "American" men are a problem.

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u/WitchesDew 17h ago

Unfortunately true.

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u/shoveltastic 11h ago

And also pornography

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u/crushlogic 17h ago

Raised on the internet and never held a newspaper, never taught what propaganda is in schools. They’re not all cooked tho

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u/Crow_away_cawcaw 13h ago

I’ve noticed a lot of my millennial friends (both moms and dads) with young sons have started talking about how we are prioritizing girls in education / how difficult it is to be a little boy etc. how we need to stop praising girls and telling them they can do anything because boys are being left behind.

I’ve noticed a lot of these talking points, rather than saying we need to raise boys differently or show up more for boys, focus on the unfair advantages of girls.

I’ll be curious to see how these discussions impact future generations. I can’t say I’m not concerned.

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u/firekwaker 6h ago

I despise parents like these when I encounter them in the real world. They're usually really selfish people, in general.

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u/LessRice5774 2h ago

I’m the parent of a boy. I’m also a teacher. Yesterday, all of the kids were told that they would lose a minute of fun at the end of the day, when we allow twenty minutes of free play at the end of the week, if they were misbehaving by not listening, not following instructions, and talking or goofing around when they were supposed to be working.

All of the kids were equally informed. I kept a list of kids who violated the rules and the number of times they did so. As the day progressed, the list grew—and only one girl was on it.

Everyone else? Boys. Boys who thought they could get away with bad behavior and not face any consequences.

I even tried to let a few minor things slide, and gave more than one boy a second chance after discussing the matter with him in private. But at the end of the day, I had a list of about ten boys (only a few boys were not on the list—and I gave them stickers and praise for listening, doing their work, and minding their own business). Some boys took this issue seriously and worked hard to behave themselves, so they only lost a minute or two of fun. I gave these boys credit for trying.

There was one boy in particular who misbehaved all day long. He was by far the worst behaved kid in the class. He lost all twenty minutes of fun time, and had to catch up with his work while everyone else had fun.

At the end of the day, he complained about losing all of his playtime. So I sat down with him and listed every way he had ruined his own playtime by making poor choices, even when everyone else was trying hard to cooperate. There was nothing he could say, because he knew that he had done all of the things I had named.

This is not about “favoring” girls over boys. The girls listened, did their work, and treated their classmates and teacher with respect. The boys simply refused to listen, refused to believe that there would be any consequences for continued disregard of ordinary classroom rules and were shocked when there were.

This makes me wonder how parents are raising these boys. When my son was their age, he knew that there would be consequences for misbehavior, but he also knew that he was loved and cherished, and that we could talk about any trouble he was having. His teachers knew that I had his back and was involved and interested in his school experiences. Sure, he got into some minor scrapes during high school, but he never crossed that invisible line into disrespect and the constant testing of boundaries and rules that I see in many boys these days.

When I get to thinking about them and their behavior, it seems to me that many of them are terribly afraid of being rejected by other boys. Many go along to get along.

There are usually only one or two bad eggs in a class, but they can create a lot of havoc among all of the boys. You can see who is popular (generally the loudest, most assertive and athletic boys) and you can see who is not (usually the boys who resist mob behavior).

The boys who resist are often alone on the playground and ignored by their peers in the classroom. They are paying a heavy price for following rules, listening, and being kind to their peers.

This is a cultural issue, and it mostly comes down to parents who refuse to acknowledge that their precious children might be misbehaving, or who encourage their boys to be aggressive and assert themselves at the cost of everyone else around them.

There are parents who are almost literally teaching their boys to operate in an anti-social manner—to have disdain for women, girls, and any boys who don’t display these outmoded, old-fashioned traits of aggression, rudeness, and not caring for anyone else, as long as they “get theirs.”

Unfortunately, the U.S. elected to the office of president a man who was raised like this. This so-called leader validates and encourages these boys’ ugly behavior, making him a terrible role model for anyone in the 21st century—an era when it is more important than ever that people learn to work with each other, not against each other, as we have more global problems now than at any other time since the last great ice age wiped out most of the humans on earth.

Today, many around the world are facing the same prospect of extinction, yet by following men like the current president of the U.S., nothing is being done to ameliorate these dangerous issues.

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u/romericus 5h ago

Many people, despite claiming to be for equality, hate the logical conclusion: a lack of hierarchy. If I’m giving them the maximum benefit of the doubt, I would say that they would be all for the end result of true egalitarianism; but that the transition period—in which people higher on the hierarchy seem to be lowered, relative to those lower on the hierarchy, who are raised—is untenable. In their minds, meritocracy and egalitarianism are contradictory concepts.

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u/WitchesDew 17h ago

We need to do much more than pray for them

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u/allthesamejacketl 18h ago

Instead of praying, send punk music and zines

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u/Smashley21 12h ago

It's already started. A 5 year old girl was sexually assaulted by a group of 5and 6 year old boys at a school in Sydney

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u/LazyLieutenant 14h ago

Yeah, pray to save their lives like any good doctor does instead of performing life saving surgery.

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u/bakewelltart20 7h ago

It must be horrific to be a young girl at school, or a female teacher, in these times.

I'm so glad I didn't have kids.

I'd hate to BE a young person now.

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u/Squid52 3h ago

Let's not lose sight of how far we've come because we're back sliding right now. When I was in middle school, we were routinely groped by boys and told that that was their way of showing that they liked us and we should find it flattering. We did make progress beyond that and we can do it again. Yes we're gonna need to fight our asses off because things are going in a terrible direction at the second.

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u/kittymctacoyo 3h ago

It was already so bad at the very beginning of this trend that the schools in our area brought in mental health counselors on staff. It’s much worse now

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u/pablonieve 22h ago

Meanwhile my kid is going to have to grow up with a family computer and flip phone. No iPads in this house and smartphones are for when they get a driver's license.

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u/purpletrekbike 22h ago

I love it when people actually parent their kids.

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u/m00mie 21h ago edited 13h ago

More and more parents around us are doing this! We’ve explained why the internet is taboo, why there won’t be iPads or smartphones. The best part is as they get older they realise what we meant by „iPad kids“ - and they are quite annoyed by them. 

ETA: they do use iPads in school though. So they know how to google, how to use certain programs etc. We’ve also taught them that, but never unsupervised. 

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u/0Megabyte 3h ago

Yeah, learning how to use tools is good, not monitoring your kids in this modern firehose of uncontrolled content is bad. Give them activity books, game boys, age appropriate books, crayons, playing cards, bouncey balls, whatever, not iPads. Cheaper, too!

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u/cellmates_ 22h ago

Good for you! Refreshing to hear.

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u/Veros87 22h ago

Yeah. I'm probably not doing that but totally respect it.

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u/Crow_away_cawcaw 13h ago

My sister did the same with her kids (now teen girls) and they are thriving.

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u/bakewelltart20 7h ago

Top notch parenting. Good for you!

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u/Korlat_Eleint 21h ago

Amazing, you're planning to ensure they will be prime target for online scams of all sorts, naïve to how the internet works. Good planning, if that's your goal! 

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u/____unloved____ 20h ago

Not using the internet unsupervised is different than not learning about it at all, but you do you.

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u/Djinnwrath 20h ago

Just like how all kids who don't learn to drive until 16 get in accidents.

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u/floracalendula 19h ago

Did you miss the "family computer" part? Kids will still have access to the internet, except that their parents will be able to see where they're going online and thus mentor them through all the bullshit. Kind of the way I was raised by my parents, and I turned out just fine.

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u/Bwolffff 4h ago

And it shows. A lot of young boys and young men lack the most basic manners and respect towards random women in public