Many boys didn't just wake up deciding they wanna posture as macho chauvinists like Andrew Tate - their insecurity is a reaction to a culture where a man doing slightly innocuous feminine things is enough to give a woman "the ick".

At the end of the day women are, in their own words, attracted to what they perceive as confident, tall, physically strong men - essentially markers of dominance. No matter from which angle you try to frame it, it is about fitting the alpha mold to an extent. Some men strike a natural balance between the two, but as cultural expectation placed on millions of men who will try to emulate what made the popular guys desirable will produce its byproduct: toxic masculinity.

In fact toxic masculinity is so omnipresent even woke women who mock Andrew Tate for spreading it do it with memes that shame him for supposedly having a round "unmanly" chin, to Greta Tunberg "small dick energy" remarks. Even the ones who are fighting against it are perpetuating it, even if unintentionally.