Teachers And Girls Call Out Andrew Tate's Influence As Assault Threat Looms
Daily sexual harassment of female instructors and students as young as ten has pushed some Sydney educators to consider quitting their jobs in protest.
Girls and female educators in Sydney, Australia's private schools, are speaking out about horrific instances of sexual harassment, even as school administrators warn parents about the dangers of their sons watching videos by internet personality Andrew Tate.
Multiple reports of teachers being called filthy names or told sexually explicit jokes by students as young as 10 have been received.
Schools have issued warnings after the Daily Telegraph exposed a Knox Grammar student-run chat group filled with homophobic, anti-Semitic, and sexist content.
Tate, a divisive international influencer and ex-professional kickboxer, has been criticised for his views on women, notably his assertion that victims of sexual assault "carry some culpability."
In videos posted rampantly on TikTok, which thousands of Australian children have access to, Tate espouses that women "belong in the home", "can't drive", and are a "man's property".
In August, he was kicked off both Facebook and Instagram, where he had amassed a following of five million persons.
Scots College's head of students, James Bowles, alerted parents about Tate's viral films that had tallied up billions of views on TikTok in a newsletter to parents last month.
He emphasised that pupils were at risk of being misled by Tate's outbursts supporting violence against women, the illegitimacy of depression and "a host of other inappropriate and uninformed beliefs".
Trinity Grammar's assistant principal Bradley Barr also warned Tate, saying that the latter's "reach probably extends into many of your homes and to the social media feeds of many of your sons."
After ten years of speaking with students and educators in public and private schools across New South Wales as director of the Collective Shout movement, Melinda Tankard Reist has observed a disturbing trend: the stories are getting worse, and the children involved are younger.
Along with female kids as young as 10, Ms Tankard Reist claimed female teachers were experiencing alarming sexual harassment from young boys, with some being moved to tears.
The public speaker, author, and media commentator claimed that female students were in "deep distress" because of Tate's impact on campus.
"For the last six months around the country, without exception, people would ask me: 'Will the boys be spoken to about the influence of Andrew Tate?" she stated.
Document Women has previously discussed how social media figures like Andrew Tate espouse incel (involuntary celibate) rhetoric and how this could affect the safety of women and girls on and off line. Mr Tate's views are viral among young boys. The late Kevin Samuels and Jordan Peterson, custodians of the patriarchy, have traction offline as well as online, packaging their sexist views to the mainstream as a man-forward ideology.