The main problem I have with this MGTOW thing is that they often try to take claim of and own certain principles like a badge of pride; principles that are really just common sense but lumped into a “movement” as “action and change” that is driven by the evil doing of women.
I didn’t need a bad experience with a toxic woman to know that I should have focused on my career over the years.
I didn’t need a bad experience with a toxic woman to know that I should never go out of my way for anyone who hasn’t first proved their worth.
I didn’t need a bad experience with a toxic woman to know marriage can be high risk.
Mgtow guys love to claim these principles as their own. They like to give strength to the “movement” because they attribute it to their new found beliefs and understanding of life.
But they never needed a movement.
They never needed a toxic relationship to adopt these principles.
They never needed pain and suffering to learn.
All they ever needed to do was open their eyes, pay attention to what’s going on around them, think things through and accept responsibility for their actual choices. They only wear the mgtow pride badge now because they failed to do these things before.
It’s a movement of hindsight.
Mgtow = admitting you were a fool but pointing the finger of blame elsewhere.
Don’t most of these things come from experience in other ways though? Most of these dudes had none before their marriage lol. It may be common sense, but most people have that common sense washed out of them by the constant pounding of society saying ‘marriage good, man bad, true luv and disney = win’. And honestly, no one really should
expect to get divorced in the future when they get married. Otherwise no person would ever do it. To know these things, you’d have to take risks in other ways, something of which society also frowns on.
I think what it is, is that they just put it all into words for themselves. Like if you have a bad feeling about something and are constantly told by everyone around you to disregard it and that that bad feeling is wrong, etc. you do ignore it because you think to yourself ‘yeah maybe it is just me’. But when you have something like MGTOW (or whatever you wanna call it, be it redpill or sosuave), that properly explains everything you have been feeling, it validates your experiences and says that what you’re felt all along was actually right and that there really is something wrong. This goes for anything though, not just the stuff on here or MGTOW or wherever. Very few people in this world can just outright resist societal pressures like that without getting some sort of support from something else. Human nature and all that.
