Richard Reeves

We watched Andrew Tate videos together.

Andrew Tate's this online.

Probably most people know who he is now.

Hmm.

We sat and we watched some of the videos together actually with one of their girlfriends.

What do you like about this?

What do you like about that?

Well, that's pretty horrible.

We don't agree with that, right?

And so just engage with the content because it's all coming at them and the question is how are they discerning it and how are they filtering it and which bits do they believe and which bits do they not believe and how is it shaping them?

And the solution to it is not to sort of –

have a moral panic.

We don't need the sound of slammed laptops across the country.

What we need is the sound of curious parents engaging with their kids about their content and having honest conversations about it and correcting them, which is what I did with my son, right?

But that's not true, is it?

Let's look into that.

Or do you really believe that?

Or just have that argument with them rather than just going, oh, no, internet, Manosphere, bad, slam shut.

That lack of curiosity on the part of parents and the panic sometimes gets in the way of real engagement.

So sometimes it takes a deep breath.