For those out there who still think MGTOW was born of nothing….
Did Joss Whedon actually have a MGTOW moment?
I just recently caught parts of Joss Whedon’s movie Avengers: Age of Ultron on TV that I hadn’t seen before. Sorry, I’m not much for movies based on comic books. I haven’t read comic books since… well, it was more
MGTOW – Artemis, by Andy Weir
.. but over time, whether consciously or unconsciously, I suspect that the intrinsic anti-male message, even being as usual as it is now, will work in the back of men’s minds, making them at least a little more cautious about the next book.
Bye-bye, Fear of the Walking Dead. I seem to be easing out of pop culture.
I get the whole grand metaphor going on here- people need a way to think about the unthinkable, a way to mentally prepare to some extent for the worst-possible-scenarios that the future might hold, but they don’t want to have to mentally deal with those scenarios in raw form. They need to mull over the issues but at a certain remove.
MGTOW – Response to “Opinion: MGTOW”
“In many ways you’re right, it is “essentially the same ideology”, but I think your are more right than you realize. It is not just a mirror-image ideology with the genders reversed, in many ways MGTOW and feminism are the same phenomenon…”
“MGTOW is the success of feminism. This is what that success looks like. So long as non-participation is increasingly the most rational reaction to the situation for males the movement will continue to grow, whatever the label, visible or not.”
MGTOW – The Red Pill – Australian TV, not Cassie Jaye, is determined to miss the point.
It’s time we stopped thinking like metaphorical lemmings, following the herd to whatever destination they lead us to without objection or dissent, and start thinking like human beings instead, with some compassion for other humans regardless of gender, even in the face of societal or media disapproval.
MGTOW – If equality means what it says… #10
If two men don’t get along and have an antagonistic relationship, no matter how much justification they may have, it’s derided as “testosterone poisoning”, with the implication that they can’t get along simply because they are male. If two men
MGTOW – An Early Lesson in Gender Difference
My girl-cousin asked “Did they really live happily ever after?”.
I asked “How did that wand work?”.
MGTOW- More Blither Against It, this time from Down Under
This ends with the statement that the “greater good” doesn’t actually exist, which I happen to agree with. Look at hive insects, which are a huge success as an evolutionary strategy, seemingly satisfying the “common good” concept, but don’t provide a single individual life worth living… but then in the very next sentence we get:
“Start looking into this “manosphere” and it’s like going down a rabbit hole — happiness here is supposedly freedom.”
Um, wait… am I missing something here? Is there evidence I’ve missed that happiness is actually slavery?
MGTOW – “10 Cloverfield Lane”: Some twists, but the same feminist tropes.
There are really only three characters in the movie, and while they have some novel elements and they are introduced in novel fashions, basically there is the noble, brilliant, strong and courageous female protagonist whom we gather is fleeing a relationship that might be abusive. Then there is the well-meaning but very explicitly not-very-bright male, and finally the intelligent but very evil male.
There it is, the complete, if minimal, set of near-mandatory early 21st Century feminist film tropes.
MGTOW – Taylor Swift, women’s “Blank Space”, and why a lot of men might say “No, thanks”.
IMHO, the guys are right about this. Having a role to fill that could just as well be filled by any qualified candidate is not a foundation for a relationship, much less an ostensibly life-long relationship with heavy legal and financial penalties for early termination. My impression is that men don’t usually think of women in those terms, they are looking for someone who they uniquely want to be with, and whatever “qualifications” they may have had in mind all become very flexible indeed for the right person… and whether they can articulate it or not, they want that right person to feel the same way about them. Yes, that does seem to imply that most men are more “romantic” than most women. Believe me, these days that’s not hard.
Some MGTOW Advice from the year 1617
Note that it threads the needle- no woman-bashing, quite the contrary, but just a statement of independence, quite different from the modern cultural assumption that any man owes any woman obedience by default.
MGTOW – If equality means what it says… #9
Name a single brand of clothing (not line) that is for men only.
MGTOW – National Geographic’s series Mars is the usual 21st-Century cliche, women in charge, disposable men.
At the end of the series the two women who were previously rivals for power have reconciled, and a harmonious caste of women have quietly taken over all important tasks. The woman in charge makes an exception to her own rules so that she and the other two core women can heroically don spacesuits, drive across the martian landscape in a rover and personally discover life on Mars, thus saving the colony and the mission, with no involvement of men at all.
MGTOW – If equality means what it says… #8
Why is it perfectly acceptable for millions of women to state openly that they’re voting for a woman just because she’s a woman, but anyone who said publicly that they were voting for a man just because he’s a man would be publicly crucified for it?
If it’s sexist bigotry in one direction, why not the other?
MGTOW is not a tragedy
As feminism liberated women from their obligations toward men, it also liberated men from their obligations toward women. Especially, of course, men who had yet to take on those obligations.
MGTOW – If equality means what it says… #7
Why is it that your spell checker doesn’t even recognize “misandry”, unless you added it yourself? It recognizes “misogyny”, no problem. It’s like bigotry in one direction is commonplaces, but in the other direction it cannot even exist, therefore there is no such word.
MGTOW – If equality means what it says… #6
Why is it that virtually all female vocalists sound like females, but something like 40%, or approximately 500,000 recordings so far of male vocalists have them whining for female attention in falsetto, apparently trying to sound as female as possible?
MGTOW – If equality means what it says… #5
Why is it you never hear of a married man being able to use his entire house to pursue his interests and style while the woman is relegated to a “woman cave” to pursue hers?
MGTOW – If equality means what it says… #4
Why is it that top-class hotels and expensive homes often have a bidet in the bathrooms, but never a urinal?