***Content warning – sexual violence against women

“Choke me, it’s the only way I learn” + "Choke me harder" + “Choke me Daddy”

These are just a few examples of Teepublic t-shirts encouraging male sexual violence against women.

But promoting strangulation – a lethal form of violence against women – as normal and desirable has serious real-world consequences for women. At least five women have reported being strangled and raped by misogynist influencer Andrew Tate.

Anna* told BBC she went home with Tate after going on a few dates with him in 2013, where he subsequently raped and strangled her.

“He started kissing me... and he just looked up at the ceiling and said, ‘I’m just debating whether I should rape you or not. Out of the blue he just grabbed me by the throat, smashed me to the back of the bed, strangling me extremely hard.”

Another woman, Sienna*, also reported being strangled and raped by Tate.

“We went to my bedroom... and we started having sex,” she says. “That was when he put his hands around my throat.”

Sienna said that she lost consciousness, and when she woke up, Tate was still having sex with her. The strangulation left her with an injury to her eye.

Tate has been charged with rape, human trafficking and forming an organised group to sexually exploit women, and potentially facing additional charges of having sex with a minor and trafficking underage persons. Tate and his brother are also being investigated for trafficking 34 more women.

We stand with survivors in calling out male violence against women. Who do you stand with, Teepublic?

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