“Any man who has sex with women because it ‘feels good’ is gay.”
In April of 2025, self-described “misogynist influencer”, accused rapist and alt-right grifter, Andrew Tate, took to X (formerly Twitter) to post this statement. The full statement reads:
“Sex is for making children. Any man who has sex with women because it ‘feels good’ is gay. Oh my pee pee feels good this is great! In fact if you are 40 with less than 5 children you’re probably gay. All that feel-good pee pee sex and hardly any genetic legacy?”
Tate claims to have a “double digit” number of kids, although none have been confirmed through public record. He will turn 40 this December and, unless birth records materialise, is far behind by his own standards.
The statement is an oxymoron and one that seems directly oppositional to the “hyper masculinity” the manosphere so deeply covets. Through statements like these, it’s clear the manosphere is not hypermasculine: it’s hypermisogynistic.
The word gay is not being used to describe homosexual men, it’s being used as a pseudo-slur to demonise the stereotypical femininity that Tate and others believe comes with being gay. Femininity, to them, is weakness. Sex is gay, gay is feminine, and feminine is evil.
The movement has strayed from its original prospects of a “traditional” society and is instead endeavouring to decentralise women in all aspects of life. This is unsurprising for a group whose very origins are rooted in the incel movement.
Brayden Eric Peters, known online as Clavicular, is a content streamer and denizen of the manosphere “looksmaxxing” subculture, defined by Merriam-Webster:
Looksmaxxing refers to practices, especially among young men online, to enhance their physical appearance. These practices range in intensity, from everyday skincare to cosmetic surgery.
Peters claims to be apolitical but frequently appears with far-right extremists such as Nick Fuentes and Sneako.
On one of his streams, Peters declared that knowing he could have sex with a woman is better than the act itself. This sentiment was reinforced when he appeared Adam Friedland show, where he openly admitted that sex takes him around a minute—a deliberate choice.
Again, on a recent podcast when Peters was asked if women were more attractive than men, he replied:
“Absolutely not, because when we look at women we’re looking at the most put together frauded versions of themselves, but with men its natural unchanged beauty…”
Though the homoerotic overtones of this statement are self-evident, it’s clear that his intention was not to leave the closet. Peters is not declaring his love for men: he is exposing his hatred of women.
The manosphere first became well established around 2015. At this time the movement was focused on core traditional values of gender roles. It cried that the contemporary feminist movement had “gone too far” at the expense of men. Spokesmen of the movement did not outwardly admit misogynistic intent; in fact, many were quoted as saying they loved women “a little too much”. The movement was evil, misogynistic, and bigoted, but not without goals.
In 2026 the discourse has changed. The attention economy has led figureheads of the manosphere into a tailspin of collective radicalisation. Now, it is an extremely loose social movement that shows no cohesion whatsoever. Tate and Peter’s statements are a small, if not prolific example of this. Their seemingly directed content of the past has devolved into outwardly absurdist and contradictory assertions made to be clipped and farmed for views. This has resulted in the manosphere’s radical decentralisation of women, even if that harms cis-male individuals’ own emotional and physical pleasure.
With less direction, the movement is arguably more dangerous. Ignorance lets these ideals fester and grow. An annual study by Ipos and the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at Kings College in London, showed that 59 percent of Gen Z cis men believe that men are expected to do too much to support equality. The same study found that 21 percent of the same male cohort believe that a “real woman” should never initiate sex. The global survey had over 23,000 participants.
Despite how bleak these findings are, the only way forward is through education. Rampant misinformation and “taboo politics” have directly resulted in these statistics. The manosphere was not created to uplift young men. It was meant to profit from them by keeping them ill-informed and desperate. I want to be clear; the manosphere has always been horrendously harmful, but without direction or mass opposition, it has and will become increasingly noxious.
This piece was featured in the 2026 summer edition of Glass Magazine
