# Andrew Tate — "when you're a realist, you're sexist" > [!quote] "I'm a realist, and when you're a realist, you're sexist. There's no way you can be rooted in reality and not be sexist." > — Andrew Tate, interview, January 2021 ## Context Tate — the kickboxer-turned-influencer who became the single most-viewed figure of the contemporary [[Manosphere]] before being charged in Romania with rape and human trafficking — said this in a January 2021 interview, in the same exchange where he described himself as "absolutely a misogynist." He built an audience of tens of millions of young men on exactly this posture: misogyny reframed not as prejudice but as clear-eyed realism that softer men are too cowardly to admit. ## Why this matters This is the manosphere's signature rhetorical move in one sentence: recoding contempt for women as honesty, so that any objection can be dismissed as denial of "reality." Where the religious-right receipts in this collection ground female subordination in scripture, Tate grounds it in a posture of hard-truth machismo — a [[Misogyny]] marketed directly to teenage boys through algorithmic video. His reach made him the most consequential vector for moving open misogyny into the mainstream youth culture that the post-2024 backlash drew on. ## Verification - **Quote compilations:** [The Week — "25 things Andrew Tate has said about women"](https://theweek.com/culture-life/andrew-tate-women-things-said); [Wikiquote — Andrew Tate](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_Tate). - **Academic/advocacy citation:** [CSE Institute, Villanova Law](https://cseinstitute.org/andrew-tate-self-proclaimed-misogynist-and-king-of-toxic-masculinity/). - **Status:** Verbatim, undisputed; a self-description Tate has affirmed repeatedly. ## Related quotes - [[Roosh V - how to stop rape]] — the older pickup-artist wing the manosphere grew out of. - [[Nick Fuentes - your body my choice]] — the overlapping young-online-male audience. - Featured in [[Misogyny on the Right]].