Greta Thunberg Doesn’t Have To Be Nice About Your Dick

This, “male self-help,” and a few more incredibly obvious lessons from Andrew Tate’s downfall.

Jude Ellison S. Doyle
ZORA
Published in
6 min readJan 4, 2023

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An old-fashioned book about — botany, probably? There are engravings of dandelions — and a magnifying glass allowing us to see the words “very tiny.”
Emily Dickinson’s dick insults were treasured by her family, yet little-known to the world. Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash

Andrew Tate hurts women. This is the most well-known thing about him. On his wildly popular social media accounts, he’s admitted to breaking a woman’s jaw in a bar fight, recommends choking and beating disobedient girlfriends (“bang out the machete, boom in her face and grip her by the neck. Shut up bitch”) and claims he moved to Romania because it would be easier to avoid rape charges. Easy or not, he is now facing rape charges in Romania, and has been arrested on suspicion of running a sex trafficking operation.

A few weeks ago Andrew Tate decided to harass 19-year-old environmental activist Greta Thunberg on social media. She replied that he could “email me at smalldickenergy@getalife.com.” Tate got angry enough to make an entire response video, during which he ate pizza from a Romanian pizza joint, thereby alerting authorities to his location, leading to the aforementioned arrest. It’s only natural that, in the wake of these spectacular events, social media was consumed with questions about power and gender. Namely: Is it ever okay to insult a man by saying he has a small dick?

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Jude Ellison S. Doyle
ZORA
Writer for

Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.