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By Mihar Dias (C) Copyright February 2023
Andrew Tate is a misogynist, a person who dislikes, despises, or is strongly prejudiced against women. Except that Andrew is extremely negative towards women. More so than Azman.
What I would like to show you is that Azman Ibrahim inadvertently made an error in labelling women as products.
Maybe it's wise that we avoid comparing Tate to Azman Ibrahim although both are now categorised as misogynists. Because the latter merely commented on an issue about dress code for women when lodging police reports. Let's hope he will mend his ways and not go beyond that.
According to TRP, Azman said that expensive items of high value are usually packed “cute and neat”. He was referring specifically to women as merchandise that ought to be cute and neatly packed. That statement got him into hot soup with netizens everywhere.
In fact, he made it worse by adding that the packaging method plays an important role in marketing, saying if an item is sold exposed on the side of the road, it is a “cheap counterfeit product”.
Azman, an honourable state assemblyman, was referring to a screenshot of a news article where DAP’s Young Syefura Othman reacted to the issue concerning a woman who was denied entry at a police station because of the latter's inappropriate attire.
The comments he made sparked anger among netizens on social media which is spreading quickly by the day. The netizens are calling Azman out for his misogynistic views about women that they regard as being derogatory. For example, TRP quoted @LilyZali on Twitter who said: “How can a man who has women in his family look down on women like this? Based on usage alone? And labeled as goods? You are a vile creature.”
Yang Berhormat Azman may want to apologise to women for degrading them by labeling them as products.
On the other hand, Andrew Tate says women belong in the home, can’t drive, and are a man’s property. He also thinks rape victims must “bear responsibility” for their attacks according to videos he posted online.
In other clips, he talks about hitting and choking women, trashing their belongings and stopping them from going out, even calling an ex-girlfriend who accused him of hitting her – an allegation he denies – a “dumb hoe”.
Tate’s views have been described as extreme misogyny by NGOs against domestic abuse on grounds that he is capable of radicalising men and boys to commit harm offline.
But Tate, according to The Guardian, has become one of the most famous figures on TikTok, where videos of him have been watched as much as 11.6 billion times. As a result Tate has gone "in a matter of months from near obscurity to one of the most talked about people in the world."
The Guardian says in July 2022 alone there were more searches for Andrew Tate than Donald Trump or even Kim Kardashian on Google. Schools in the UK are now running courses to train school children to fight back against Tate's misogynistic influence to help restore respect for women in society.
According to The Sunday Times, teachers in the United Kingdom are creating lesson plans to re-educate teenage students who have been brainwashed by misogynistic influencer Andrew Tate who is locked up in a Romanian prison on charges of rape and sex trafficking. Tate has had a toxic effect on teens who embraced his hateful ideology, forcing teachers to address his views with their students.
Malaysia too could end up like the UK if we allowed these misogynistic individuals to run wild and influence young minds particularly teenagers in schools.
We ought to put a stop to Azman and others like him locally, less they too may end up becoming as toxic as Andrew Tate leading young people to lose respect for women and treat them as products or sex objects.
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