Uploaded January 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
In "Girlboss", poet, critic, and novelist Alex Sheremet delivers an ario about Andrew Tate's possible life motivations. Did he feel resentment over his father, Emory Tate, an accomplished chess master who was an unfaithful spouse and absentee parent? Did his mother's own struggles fuel a desire to acquire money by any means possible – including sexual exploitation? Finally, why is Andrew Tate, who pushes masculinity and healthy role models for young men, so emotional and antithetical to his own preaching?
In 2022, Andrew Tate, his brother Tristan Tate, and two women were arrested in Romania for alleged sex trafficking and running a criminal enterprise. One of the arrested women is a Romanian police officer. According to Reuters, "Prosecutors have said the Tate brothers recruited their victims by seducing them and falsely claiming to want a relationship or marriage. The victims were then taken to properties on the outskirts of the capital Bucharest and through physical violence and mental intimidation were sexually exploited by being forced to produce pornographic content for social media sites that generated large financial gain, prosecutors said."
In Andrew Tate’s words, he moved to Romania for its laxer legal climate.
A note on the ario poetic form: Bruce Ario (1955 – 2022) was a Minneapolis poet who created the “ario” poetic form, a 10-line poem with 3 stanzas of 3 lines each, concluding with a final line that inverts that which preceded it.
ArtiFact #35: The Life & Times Of Bruce Ario: youtube.com/watch?v=ycAD9s57Re8
If you found this video useful, support us on our Patreon page and get patron-only content: patreon.com/automachination
Subscribe to the ArtiFact podcast on Spotify: spoti.fi/3xw2M4D
Apple Podcasts: apple.co/3wLpqEV
Google Podcasts: bit.ly/3dSQXxJ
Amazon Music: amzn.to/2SVJIxB
Podbean: bit.ly/3yzLuUo
iHeartRadio: https://ihr.fm/3AK942L
Read more from the automachination universe: automachination.com
Read Alex Sheremet's (archived) essays: alexsheremet.com
Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/automachination
Text of poem:
Girlboss
* for Andrew Tate
So the boy only wants to see his daddy
Dead. It would mean so much
To chuff him through Mauthausen
By the throat. He finds young ones
More easily commanded
Than emotion. Too slow to pull out
Of pictures where every woman is the same
As any man who hides himself
In pillows, he fears to shrivel up unnoticed
Like a clit. Was Mom at fault? What was she?
Tags: #andrewtate, #poetry
In "Girlboss", poet, critic, and novelist Alex Sheremet delivers an ario about Andrew Tate's possible life motivations. Did he feel resentment over his father, Emory Tate, an accomplished chess master who was an unfaithful spouse and absentee parent? Did his mother's own struggles fuel a desire to acquire money by any means possible – including sexual exploitation? Finally, why is Andrew Tate, who pushes masculinity and healthy role models for young men, so emotional and antithetical to his own preaching?
In 2022, Andrew Tate, his brother Tristan Tate, and two women were arrested in Romania for alleged sex trafficking and running a criminal enterprise. One of the arrested women is a Romanian police officer. According to Reuters, "Prosecutors have said the Tate brothers recruited their victims by seducing them and falsely claiming to want a relationship or marriage. The victims were then taken to properties on the outskirts of the capital Bucharest and through physical violence and mental intimidation were sexually exploited by being forced to produce pornographic content for social media sites that generated large financial gain, prosecutors said."
In Andrew Tate’s words, he moved to Romania for its laxer legal climate.
A note on the ario poetic form: Bruce Ario (1955 – 2022) was a Minneapolis poet who created the “ario” poetic form, a 10-line poem with 3 stanzas of 3 lines each, concluding with a final line that inverts that which preceded it.
ArtiFact #35: The Life & Times Of Bruce Ario: youtube.com/watch?v=ycAD9s57Re8
If you found this video useful, support us on our Patreon page and get patron-only content: patreon.com/automachination
Subscribe to the ArtiFact podcast on Spotify: spoti.fi/3xw2M4D
Apple Podcasts: apple.co/3wLpqEV
Google Podcasts: bit.ly/3dSQXxJ
Amazon Music: amzn.to/2SVJIxB
Podbean: bit.ly/3yzLuUo
iHeartRadio: https://ihr.fm/3AK942L
Read more from the automachination universe: automachination.com
Read Alex Sheremet's (archived) essays: alexsheremet.com
Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/automachination
Text of poem:
Girlboss
* for Andrew Tate
So the boy only wants to see his daddy
Dead. It would mean so much
To chuff him through Mauthausen
By the throat. He finds young ones
More easily commanded
Than emotion. Too slow to pull out
Of pictures where every woman is the same
As any man who hides himself
In pillows, he fears to shrivel up unnoticed
Like a clit. Was Mom at fault? What was she?
Tags: #andrewtate, #poetry
