Tatted Philipp Tanzer (aka Logan McGree) Loves Men (Men's Rights, That Is)

What do you do when you leave the adult male industry? Become an advocate for men's rights and wear a MAGA hat, of course. Just ask Philipp Tanzer.

You likely may not recognize his name, but you may recognize his tattooed torso from his career as an award-winning gay porn star working for such studios as Raging Stallion under the name Logan McCree.

Since leaving porn, the German-born Tanzer moved to Scottish highlands where he works as a hairdresser, artist and gallery owner. But what has brought him back into the public eye this week is his career as a "men's rights activist," which is profiled in, of all places, the BBC as part of their new "BBC Stories" short film series.

BBC journalist Alvaro Alvarez was intrigued by Tanzer and his cause and traveled to Chicago with him for a Men's Rights conference last year "in an attempt to get under the skin of this movement and ultimately Philipp's investment and fascination with it," writes the BBC website.

In the short film, Tanzer is seen running on the beach with his dog and taking a swim near his Scottish home, then traveling to Chicago to attend a Men's Rights Activist (MRA) conference last year.

What brought Tanzer to the movement was upon turning 30 his realizing wanting a family and a wife. In a profile in Vice published two years ago, he said that he didn't "really fit in with gay culture," calling himself "asexual but with a preference for men."

He started dating women again, claiming that his gay adult male career was "gay for pay." "In fact," Vice writes, "he had just exited a long-term relationship with another male performer and continued to sleep with men when dating women (with the consent of his then-girlfriend)."

His becoming a men's rights activist began when he was in the German military. There he noticed for the first time real problems in society when it came to men. "Almost all my comrades from the military, they lost their children in custody battles, and it really destroyed them, some of them emotionally," he told the BBC.

When asked in the video about women's issues, Tanzer answered in a respectful way, but with a caveat: "People take the struggles of women very seriously and that is wonderful and that is great. And they should. But it's a way for other people to be forgotten," he said.

Those "forgotten" in the MRA movement are men like Tanzer, who see themselves as victims. "The truth is that MRAs can be pretty shameless in encouraging and exploiting men's own feelings of victimization," Vice reports. "Listen to MRAs discuss, say, sexual assault allegations (which they usually claim are fabricated by feminists to hound men from their jobs), and you realize what they're really trying to do is engender a sense of powerlessness and a feeling that this could happen to you. It's intended to appeal to the audience's fear and self-interest–and it can be very effective."

Though, in Tanzer's case, at the cost of the facts. When asked by the BBC about an official British report that estimated twice as many women experience domestic abuse than men (7.2% vs. 4.2%), Tanzer answers he did "not believe this statistic."

While the BBC report acknowledges some MRA claims seem legitimate, they also label others "misogynistic and hateful," verifying the claim with footage from the Chicago conference of anti-feminist material. Talking head Tracie Farrell, a researcher from the Knowledge Media Institute, says that men's rights activists use a device called "flipping the narrative" which was presenting the idea that "actually, women hold most of the political and personal power," and that it's "men who are actually subjugated by feminism."

And he never misses an opportunity to promote MRA views, even during the pandemic. Recently Tanzer commented on a doctor's Twitter post praising the role women have played in the COVID-19 crisis:

He also spoke out against "heterophobia":

Muses on a gender war:

And even attempts to be funny: