So a Redditor goes into the Men Going Their Own Way subreddit.
I realize that sounds a bit like the start of a crappy joke. But it’s true. Earlier today, the guy in question popped into the MGTOW subreddit with a couple of questions.
Now, I don’t know if AwYisBreadCrumbs is trolling or not, but there are few things you can say to a MGTOW that will offend him more than this seemingly reasonable question.
If these guys really are all enjoying their awesome bachelor lifestyles, unburdened by the demands of marriage and parenthood and all of that, you might expect them to share some of the details with their MGTOW pals: Here I am rock climbing in Colorado. Here I am meeting rescued Orangutans in Borneo. Here’s the backyard roller coaster I built with my own hands. Here’s my podcast about Elvis impersonators. Here’s my model train set. I dunno, something. Anything.
Nope! Oh sure, once in a long while one of the regulars will make a post about his motorcycle. But roughly 99% of the posts in r/MGTOW are complaints about women.
And that’s the way the MGTOWs like it, as they made very clear with their overwhelmingly hostile responses to AwYis’ (possibly) innocent question. Here are some of them:
define cool sh*t. Only a woman needs to ask to be entertained.
s*ck my d*ck
There are already subreddits focusing on whatever it is you want to talk about. MGTOW is about enjoying the decline.
Your post sounds like you are concerned that mgtow have the audacity to talk about women. Gtfo quickly
Take your ass on out
you put expectations on MGTOW. There aren’t any, that’s why we all went this way.
Sorry, dude. There are expectations when it comes to MGTOWs. Anyone who’s ever spent a more than a few minutes watching a MGTOW video, or reading a MGTOW forum, or encountering MGTOWs in any other context quickly learns to expect MGTOWs to be the hyperbolically misogynistic manbabies that they in fact are.
So if you’re looking for cool model train layouts on Reddit, you’re going to have to go to r/modeltrains, where I found this:
What a lovely mongoose.
Sarity, excellent!
RobinG, AwYis may be trolling, but based on his pretty awful posting history I doubt he’s much of a Kate Beaton fan, at least beyond that cartoon. Which I guess has become a freefloating meme?
That said, Kate Beaton is awesome! You know her cartoon of the lady bicyclist? (Well, velocipedist.) She did that after seeing the original cartoon here! Whoo!
Dear lord these people are pathetic. Lesse, instead of complaining about not getting any, they could do a bunch of cool stuf instead. For some manly examples…
-Playing football (association or American), airsoft, baseball, or any other sport really
-Practice martial arts
-Fixing and driving cool vintage cars
-Go hunting or fishing
And that’s off the top of my head. Other cool stuff might include…
-Knitting
-Drawing
-Playing an instrument
-Writing
-Collecting stuff
And again, that’s off the top of my head.
It’s the novel that every man reads in his life to keep away from that overly emotional “chick lit” but written by a woman.
Imagine, if more men didn’t have ego more brittle than carbon, they could enjoy equally or even better books. I never read a Meg Cabot or Ursula K. Le Gein book I haven’t liked.
@Sarity – Ha! I love it.
Manly book clubs? But book clubs are already masculine, at least in French! “Le club de lecture,” says Google Translate (because I don’t trust my own French in remembering the whole le/la thing).
…Seriously, I guess their idea is that book clubs are a women’s hobby, and anything associated with women has to be man-ified (like “brogurt”) to be acceptable to Manly Men.
I go to a book club and the ratio of men to women is about 60/40. But then, the book is Finnegans Wake and everyone knows that James Joyce is a man’s man. He had an eyepatch and all, which made him look like a pirate, and therefore manly. (Sad but true reason for the eyepatch: serious eye problems. He also had cool hats, though.)
Even if you don’t want to go out and do stuff, there’s a million avenues of entertainment available. There’s books, music, games, TV shows and films, websites to read and videos to watch. I don’t go out much but I just watched Puella Magi Madoka Magica last week and it was great. I have about a million games and want to get even more (right now I’d like to get Dark Souls 3, mostly). On the topic of video games (and I’m guessing MGTOW and GGer overlap heavily), why aren’t they sharing their video game war stories?
Here’s an example: On chapter 10 of Fire Emblem Fates Conquest, I had to defend a harbor from getting overrun by the enemy leader’s forces. I stationed my tankiest units like Arthur and Effie towards the front, had the wizard Nyx operate magical artillery, and had both Niles and Mozu (whom I reclassed to Archer) use ballistae to soften up the enemy. My cavalry and airborne units defended the flanks and kept enemies from getting too close while Felicia and Elise ran around keeping people alive. However, the enemy drained the harbor and could more easily flank me, and strategy devolved. Before long, my men were holed up in a crude box formation at the point being defended. Eventually, the battle was won and no lives were lost on my side, but it was a tense fight. But of course, MGTOWs would rather not talk about anything like this because telling a story means there’s less time devoted to bashing women.
This MGTOW’s* hobbies include snuggling microfiber blankies.
http://i.imgur.com/Slevr4U.jpg
*He actually goes his own way, though. He leaves the room when the girl cat comes in.
@Jack: Direct hit to the nostalgia! Meg Cabot, like The Princess Diaries? All-American Girl? (I was/am more into comedy than fantasy writing, so I don’t know much about her Mediator series, but yeah!)
Also also I should read The Outsiders. Can you believe I’ve never read it?
That or Catcher in the Rye.
I can believe it because terrible, terrible people exist in the world. But, for real, it’s a good book and very quotable.
But Holden Caulfield is so whiny. No one wants to read about a whiny teenager, not even whiny teenagers. Especially since it’s mandatory reading in some schools.
(I’ve read it three times, it’s great.)
For a really excellent dystopian cyberpunk novel narrated by a whiny teenager I highly recommend “Feed” by M.T. Anderson.
I hear Catcher in the Rye was so popular because an angsty teenager was novel when the book came out. Now, it’s annoying and passe.
It’s almost like it was considered profound and important when a boy was doing it, but now that it’s all girls doing it…
YES. Although it’s all “anti-technology”, “anti-millennial”, like, blah blah blah. It’s still good if you can ignore that.
If you want a not so angsty teen, but still angsty, I suggest the Gemma Doyle series. I have never been so angry yet appreciative of an ending, goddamnit.
Sheesh, not referring to Camilia by name on her big intro mission.
I did some messing around with pairing up and the rescue staff to get her to visit the house a bit beyond the wall and extract without getting shot down while sending her retainers to block the forces hooking around to the northeast. That was also the mission where I abandoned my FE player pride and started exploiting the fact that I was playing Hard Mode Casual and thus had no permadeath. Overall shape is fairly similar except that it was Jakob rather than Felicia.
On the subject on angsty teens, take this stupid song. I’ve linked it here before but eh why not do it again?
@GenJones: Oh yeah, I liked that! I read it for 11th grade… er, I forget, either English or media studies. One of my friends thought it was “trying to hard” to be like 1984 or A Clockwork Orange, and maybe it was “trying too hard” in some parts, but it didn’t seem much like either of those books (aside from a couple of 1984 references). It reminded me more of The Matrix.
There was a creepy/funny image from that book that stuck with me, where Titus is talking to Violet (I think) and he casually mentions seeing an eye blinking out of a beef shrub (see, they’ve genetically engineered beef to grow like a plant, it being the future and all).
To me, a beef plant seems less like “downfall of society” and more like “oh, cool,” but I admit a cow’s eye blinking at you from one would seem a bit… unsettling.
@FrickleFrackle – Yeah, I’ve heard it was pioneering in that way. “YA” literature had hardly started, and here was this teenage boy swearing and having angsty feelings and thinking about sex and such…
I read it for the 2nd time last year (first read it when I was 15) and what struck me was that while Holden had real problems (not to get too personal, but my mother’s also been suffering from a clinical depression fuelled by burnout/lack of sleep/anxiety etc.), it would’ve been much worse for him in that situation if he’d been other than rich/white/male. But I think he realizes that somewhat, at least the class aspect.
@katz – Agreed.
Catcher in the Rye is the best comedy book. I just could not stop reading without laughing my sides off over how utterly pathetic he is. Every page, I just can’t stop laughing at his expense.
Seriously, I will follow this blog everyday if you just keep posting more videos of model trains. That shit was fantastic.
Haven’t read Catcher, but that’s exactly how I feel about À rebours. Des Esseintes is basically a decadent Mr Bean.
MGTOWs remind me of that praying mantis villain from Space Ghost
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/spaceghost/images/a/a4/Zorak.jpg
“Santa Claus didn’t bring me a choo-choo train for Christmas, and that’s why I’m evil.”
The wizard looks and sounds like a lovely man, but I don’t believe he can be counted among the MGTOWs:
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/east/belgrave-wizard-baba-desi-talks-family-health-and-healing/story-fngnvlxu-1226595652401
As an actual railway engineer I’ve always been pretty dismissive of model trains, but that video is freakin’ art, man.
If you want to see cool model trains, look no further than this
🙂
The question was either a fine piece of trolling, or a stroke of disingenuous genius.
‘In your life without women, what do you do in your spare time?‘
The simple truth being, ‘We spend years and years of our online lives, moaning and obsessing about them, whilst we cry salty, angry, tears, into our daily bowl of FapFlakes.’
I had to read Catcher In The Rye in school, in Finnish translation. It seems we read a lot of stories about angsty troubled teenagers, presumably because that was the whole scope of “respectable teen lit” back then. I couldn’t relate to any of it, since I didn’t have problems and I was generally very naive about such things.