Great post. I became "MGTOW" in the last millennium, about 30 years ago, mid-90's, long before the acronym even existed. When I first heard of MGTOW I began to follow its social media pioneers, and they were telling me everything I already knew, but some of which I had not put in words to myself. There were very few of us; just thousands in the entire world. Today we may indirectly be 63% according to one statistic I heard recently regarding the proportion of men NOT interested in a relationship at all.
But there are problems within MGTOW, however, which I intend to write about in my Philosophical Emergency book soon. The biggest one is religious, political and ideological polarization that don't belong in the movement. I, for one, I'm neither religious, nor conservative, nor a huge believer in "nuclear family", nor even a believer in monogamy; but the tendency in MGTOW today is people trying to align it to their other prejudices, whatever they may be.
For me, the essence worth preserving is the insult and the injury done to men, the toxic "empowerment" of women, and our walking away. Nothing else, whether religious, political or ideological needs to be mixed into it.
And the analysis of the origin of this social disease needs to be looked at with philosophical depth and scientific breadth. One very common mistake people make, for example, is to draw a sharp distinction between first and second- or third-wave feminism, and point fingers one way but not the other. When I was a toddler in Buenos Aires, in the early 1960's, my mother, who was a first wave secret reader, used to whisper venom in my ear about my gentle, knowledgeable and hard-working father. Occasionally she whispered in my ear that some day women will rule the world, and will keep only a small male population in cages just for reproduction purposes. It NEVER was about equality. NEVER. And among the details on its origin, late David Rockefeller's confession to a reporter, that he had commissioned the books, so as to have women work and pay taxes, should be looked at. I don't think George Soros is an accident; I think there's a whole secret history of organized chaos involved. So, women were duped into this ideology of fighting an imaginary "Patriarchy" precisely by the only real patriarchy.
Great post. I became "MGTOW" in the last millennium, about 30 years ago, mid-90's, long before the acronym even existed. When I first heard of MGTOW I began to follow its social media pioneers, and they were telling me everything I already knew, but some of which I had not put in words to myself. There were very few of us; just thousands in the entire world. Today we may indirectly be 63% according to one statistic I heard recently regarding the proportion of men NOT interested in a relationship at all.
But there are problems within MGTOW, however, which I intend to write about in my Philosophical Emergency book soon. The biggest one is religious, political and ideological polarization that don't belong in the movement. I, for one, I'm neither religious, nor conservative, nor a huge believer in "nuclear family", nor even a believer in monogamy; but the tendency in MGTOW today is people trying to align it to their other prejudices, whatever they may be.
For me, the essence worth preserving is the insult and the injury done to men, the toxic "empowerment" of women, and our walking away. Nothing else, whether religious, political or ideological needs to be mixed into it.
And the analysis of the origin of this social disease needs to be looked at with philosophical depth and scientific breadth. One very common mistake people make, for example, is to draw a sharp distinction between first and second- or third-wave feminism, and point fingers one way but not the other. When I was a toddler in Buenos Aires, in the early 1960's, my mother, who was a first wave secret reader, used to whisper venom in my ear about my gentle, knowledgeable and hard-working father. Occasionally she whispered in my ear that some day women will rule the world, and will keep only a small male population in cages just for reproduction purposes. It NEVER was about equality. NEVER. And among the details on its origin, late David Rockefeller's confession to a reporter, that he had commissioned the books, so as to have women work and pay taxes, should be looked at. I don't think George Soros is an accident; I think there's a whole secret history of organized chaos involved. So, women were duped into this ideology of fighting an imaginary "Patriarchy" precisely by the only real patriarchy.