So over in the Men Going Their Own Way subreddit, some of the regulars are trying to come up with pithy, clever new slogans that will help them to “help our brothers wake up” to the reality of how women are a bunch of icky shrews.
Now you can help the MGTOWs by voting for your favorite slogan below. As you take this poll, please try to remember that these are ACTUAL SUGGESTIONS FROM ACTUAL MGTOWS who think they could be a great way to recruit new members.
If you happen to come up with a better suggestion, you can vote for it instead; if there are enough good ones, I can set up a sort of runoff election including them.
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MGTOWs: As terrible at slogans as they are at everything else!
“Relationships and slavery are similar, except one is voluntary and the other isn’t.”
Oh my god the fifth one. What did they not understand in “a slogan is a short sentence ?”
Whom whom whom whom whom whom whom!
What? That’s how I laugh!
Oh man, the last one is SO GOOD
it uses “whom” wrong twice, apparently believing that “whom” is just “fancy who,” uses “allude” is if it were synonymous with “delude,” makes a “there/they’re” screwup, is waaaaay too long to be a “slogan,” AND has a really weird structure (“the best villain would be . . .” huh? what do you mean by “best”? why are you stating this like it’s a proposal or suggestion by using “would be” instead of saying something like “The true villain is . . .”?).
I voted for the long, clunky, grammatically bollixed up one, mainly because of its clunky and grammatically bollixed-uppedness. But then, I realized that what it’s actually saying is that they think feminists are the ‘best villains’!
ETA: Bah! Apparently, I copied my nym wrong and I’m in moderation. grr.
Also, “allude”? I think they mean DElude, which is what MGTOW do whenever two or more of them cluster somewhere, kvetching about how much women supposedly hate the “good” guys.
And wrong homophone: should be “they’re”, not “there”. (Going Their Own Way from the English language, again.)
also, be real, David: we ALL wish we were as cool as the guys in the pic at the top.
That last one is easily the winner. That one should totally go into the glossary.
Like many of you, I voted for the last one because the attempt to sound intelligent by using whom and allude but then using them incorrectly was hilarious.
I think a more fitting slogan for MGTOW would be “Girls have cooties. Why won’t they have sex with me?” I think that about sums them up.
I was going to go with “Where there is truth there is none” because it makes no sense, but then I got to the last one and it was just so perfect. It’s a distillation of everything they write: the opposite of pithy, using words to sound smart without actually knowing what they mean, and so convoluted you have to read it three times before you can figure out the point they’re trying to make.
Perhaps these guys could find their own way to a remedial writing class.
“Always worse than you think”
“I wish mom was home, I’m hungry”
That’s my contribution.
I voted “It only gets worse” because of a forum discussion about suicide where someone talked about bullying and child abuse driving them to attempt suicide and saying that finally their life got a lot better after being an adult and a bad time isn’t forever so anybody else feeling desperate maybe hang on.
It was a very conservative forum, so they got dogpiled by people saying that only a spoiled, selfish, ungrateful child could think like that and they didn’t het half the pain they deserve and “it only gets worse”.
Since then I remember “it only gets worse” as the slogan for bullies and abusers who want to convince their victims there’s no life beyond them.
I had to vote for the “whom” abuse but I was very tempted to vote for “Commitment Kills Sex,” because it’s such a perfect illustration of where their priorities lie.
I’m surprised one of the choices wasn’t “Bros Before Hos!” 😛 (Spelled just like that. ;))
@Alan Thanks for the ear worm. LOL! *hums at work*
@WWTH I’d vote for that one. 🙂
The most effective villain would be the one who takes the time to pin their misdeeds upon the hero.
The best villain would be the one who takes the time to delude people into thinking that they are the hero, while blaming the actual hero for their misdeeds.
The best villain would be the one who takes time to delude people into thinking they’re the good guy, while blaming the one who actually is.
The best villain would be the one whom takes time to allude people into thinking there the good guy while blaming the one whom actually is.
– Use this one -Ed
The bestest villain would being the one whom takes time to allude peeps into thinking there the good guy while blaming the one whom actually is.
Te bestest villain wloud being hte 1 whom takes time to allude peeps in to thinking there th good guy w blaming teh 1 whom actually is.
Te bestest villain wloud beingeth hte 1 whom taketh time to allude peeps in to contemplating there th good guy w blaminating teh 1 whom actually be.
How does “whom” work? It just is classier right? There’s no semantic difference. There can’t be: I’m rational.
winter sky: I just saw your comment, and I’m writing you an email, please get in contact with me! YOU CAN GET THROUGH THIS. IT GETS BETTER.
MGTOW: Women are like slogans, why take a second pass at either?
winter sky, the email I sent you bounced, so I assume it wasn’t a real or working email address
Here is what I said:
I just saw your note. Please don’t do anything to yourself!
I know how really fucking hard depression can be; your pain isn’t imaginary.. But it gets better. There are treatments that can help enormously. There are people out there who care and want to help. Including me, including other WHTM commenters who’ve also dealt with depression.
Depression makes you think you’re worth nothing. But depression lies to you. YOU ARE A GOOD AND WORTHY PERSON.
Please contact me or post again in the comments. Please!
Here are some resources. If you don’t want to give them all your info you can give them fake info. Just please talk to someone!
http://suicideprevention.com.au/
https://www.lifeline.org.au/
http://www.onelifewa.com.au/
That last one reminds me of Sage Gerrard’s pithy slogans for condom wrappers.
Oh winter sky. 🙁
David is right. Depression is a fucking liar.
@winter_sky What David said. Many times over. <3
@Winter Sky,
please come back and talk to us, there are many people here who want you to be okay.
I don’t know you or your history, but I’ve been fighting depression all my life and there were times when I wanted to die, but I’m really glad I didn’t; and the longer I’ve lived the stronger I’ve become.
Like in Dodom’s story, it does get better, even if it doesn’t seem that way right now.
Please don’t hurt yourself.