In which Brit journo's at The Independent respond with laughable horror to a men's rights website.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/reddit-mgtow-men-sex-sleep-women-manosphere-meninist-a7330276.htmlTens of thousands of men have formed a real-life online community called MGTOW, or Men Going Their Own Way.
Their first rule? Abandoning all romantic relationships with women.
On Reddit alone, some 15,000 readers are subscribed to the MGTOW page which declares it is for "men going our own way by forging our own identities and paths to self-defined success; cutting through collective ideas of what a man is.”
Other websites including MGTOW.com are also dedicated to what they see as each man's fight for sovereignty of himself. And despite their hatred for women, homosexuality isn't accepted, either...
Others discuss the merits of visiting prostitutes, and how pop songs are feminist propaganda. The more you scroll, the darker it becomes.
One recent post described how women “fake orgasms often, because it makes men more submissive”. Another talked of “ditching” his “blue pill friends.” Others proudly declare that they are still virgins.
I could understand, if they thought that men trying to empower themselves were pathetic; but they find them frightening. Can you imagine them writing like this about feminism? I doubt they'd accuse any but the most extreme feminist groups of "man-hating." (Would they ever?)
What really stands out is what they call "dark." Believing pop songs are feminist - how Stygian! I guess it's only OK to believe that Taylor Swift's music is feminist, if you say it in a nice way, like the New York Times did, or
as The Independent itself did. But the darker stuff, that must be really dark, right? Like being proud of their (non)sexuality. Wait, what? So Big Media says men are bad for wanting sex too much (rape culture), and bad if they don't want it at all. And then Big Media complains when men feel put upon by such treatment.
