Andrew Tate ‘hates’ eating. What is behind his performative disgust for food? | Zoe Williams

In the toxic manosphere, fasting is seen as a mark of strength and self-reliance. I can think of another word for it

Food's awful and eating sucks." Thus spake Andrew Tate, on X (formerly Twitter). I hate eating. I hate feeling full," he elaborated, before broadening, in his trademark fashion, the personal to the universal: Imagine how stupid you have to be to find food entertaining. Literally embarrassing."

It is not at all unusual, in the toxic manosphere, to see hunger as a human frailty to which you, as the ultimate man, are immune. Jordan Peterson has a not dissimilar relationship with food, having once gone on a months-long diet of nothing but beef, salt and water. He ended up in a coma in 2019, yet insists that wasn't due to the steak but rather, his dependence on clonazepam, a type of tranquilliser. You have to wonder whether, whatever the immediate causes of his nine solid days unconscious, the odd vegetable might have helped. He once also claimed to have gone 25 days without sleeping, thanks to a deviation from the meat-only diet. I can't remember what his slip-up was - I want to say a Jelly Baby?