While you're right about Tate being a grifter, this take is fucking awful and is part of the reason why we even have this problem in the first place.
Hi. Man who grew up with absentee parents here. I want to say that your apologist bullshit is seriously giving me indigestion.
You do realise that it's fundamentally fucking retarded to centralise one, and
only one person as a role model, right? Human beings are never static; they are constantly growing and evolving. Everyone has their own internal reality that
does not correspond with the ideal, no matter how much they try to posture to the contrary.
My father spent my entire childhood and teen years toiling away on the night shift to make we had food on the table. That is extremely admirable to me,
as an adult, but that was fucking frustrating to me
as a child/teenager. Am I supposed to overlook the fact that my father was largely absent from my formative years, and now it's like I'm talking to a stranger who still thinks eighth grade was yesterday? He's only a good role model
with hindsight.
There are countless other men in one's life that a young man can turn to for guidance. I know we don't trust the school system nowadays, but I still vividly remember tons of men I took guidance from. Teachers, counsellors, principals, deans, even the fucking security guards. Okay, you don't trust the school system flat-out? How about the local library? There are tons of male librarians, and volunteering at a library is probably a lot more conducive to healthy male psychological growth than simping for a maladapted manlet who views women as literal property. Ignoring that, volunteer work is something that people can find meaningful relationships out of.
There are
countless men in our lives, and the overwhelming majority of them are either neutral at best or abject filth (case in point: any XY-chromosome/penis-bearing human being with a Kiwi Farms thread). With that said, the few men in your life that you can think of that you can find more than 3 unique, positive things to say about are probably worth 10x more their weight in gold than Andrew Tate's drivel.
Stop fucking apologising for retards who made bad choices. Filth like you make it fucking impossible for men everywhere else to take accountability for themselves.