So today some anonymous someone posted an almost certainly bullshit story on Reddit’s Men Going Their Own Way subreddit claiming that he just learned that his ex-wife (and mother to his children) had been murdered — and that he was feeling pretty happy about it.
![Found out my wife had an affair, left her, she divorced, find out today she's been murdered. (self.MGTOW) submitted 6 hours ago * by [deleted] I was gone the week and the weekend. If I have to guess it was the other guy. Feels good actually. Was not so fun being arrested and questioned, but I'm out. Had an alibi; my entire family. Pretty sick though. I have a feeling I'd on my way to be doing time if I'd just gone away alone like I'd planned to. Am I a bad man for being happy with this? Probably. But she said this word for word last we spoke "I'm going to take our children and the house is mine, our children are staying in what's going to be my house, you're going to be bought out and leave or never see our children again"](https://i0.wp.com/www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/exmurder.png?ssl=1)
Nothing about the story rings true, but Reddit’s MGTOWs, who like nothing so much as hearing about allegedly evil women getting their comeuppance, were happy to take all these alleged facts on faith — and, in many cases, even happier to have a chance to crow over the death of a “c*nt.”
Someone called justaskingman7 acknowledged that the situation might be a little rough for the children of the allegedly murdered woman, but, hey, she was probably a crappy mother anyway.
Divorcedbp suggested that her death was nothing to celebrate — but also the equivalent of winning the lottery.
MGTOWs sometimes show up in the comments here at WHTM, asking why feminists are so critical of men like them who just want to lead independent lives with no financial or emotional entanglements with women. This is why. MGTOW has never actually been about men “going their own way.” It has always been about providing a space for misogynistic men to reinforce and even revel in their hatred of women.
My ex, I am sure, would have danced for joy if I’d been murdered after we divorced (he even threatened to do it himself) and HE was the one who had the affairs!
PS We had joint custody, not that he ever bothered to take the kids on his days.
Hmm. Sounds like bullshit to me. Especially the part about being arrested – he would certainly would have been questioned (and could choose to remain silent), but it’s strains credulity he was arrested before the cops figured out if they had probable cause, because then anything he said would be suppressed.
And her parting words sound like BS, too. Just all a little too pat. And in real life, I don’t think he’d be reacting this way, unless he never loved her at all.
So. Bullshit.
Am I a bad man for wishing these manosphere types drop dead?
There are just times where I want a meteor to land on top of these guys and end the eternal misery that they insist on sharing with the rest of us.
As bullshit as this story was, the mere idea that someone would grasp such a disgusting fantasy with glee is really a little too far for me.
I feel like I reached some kind of personal snapping, like I just can’t tolerate this anymore.
So venting aside, I’m sorry if I come across as a dick.
I’m going to go and pet my cat.
feels like stuff I’ve seen of 4/8chan, people trying to one up each other, be more MGTOW than the rest. next someone will probably post a story saying he murdered his wife himself because it was the only way to go his own way.
I divorced my wife for cheating on me, but I can’t imagine taking any joy in her death. Probably the best summation of my feelings is The Smiths “Unhappy Birthday.”
Cripes. At least the cool story bros that PUAs tell just involve having sex with 18 year old hb10s after dropping some alpha day game on them.
Well, he could be embellishing “taken in for questioning” as “arrested”. For dramatic purposes, or something.
I don’t have a hard time believing that MGTOWs wouldn’t have actually loved someone they’d married. The “last words” do seem overwrought, but that also doesn’t make them untrue. It’s hardly the wildest thing I’ve ever heard from someone when they were angry or upset.
I mean, I get having a healthy dose of skepticism for any stories that Manospherians come up with because they do all read like fantasy. The OP seems a bit more reigned in than a straight-up fantasy would to me, though; just look at how much the responses are reveling in the mere idea, after all.
I think the thing I find most galling about these manosphere types is their total disregard for their children outside being something they can use to show how supposedly disadvantaged they are in a “gynocentric” society.
I know this story’s bullshit, but who would rejoice at the thought of their own children losing a parent? It’s as if they see their children as things; the mentality of the family annihilator. Utterly, utterly chilling.
Well that was gross on every level and likely fake. So it gets to be this question, who is more fucked up? The guy who spewed this shit or the rabid man piranhas eating it up?
I should say, I certainly hope that the story is fake. But it’s even more chilling to me if it’s real.
Sorry, children. Whether or not your mom’s actually dead, your dad is refuse in the landfill of humanity. Yo don’t need that shit in your life
@Dan
Yes
That’s oxymoronic and for good reason. A few assholes dying won’t fix anything
If that’s a euphemism, good job *raunchy wink*. If not, yeah, that’s probably for the best…
@dslak – Yes, but you might be making the error of being a decent person.
I’d hate being cheated on. But even if I hated my partner (something I can’t imagine), his death would devastate our kid – and I don’t want her in any pain.
Jesus, my partner’s cousin was murdered by her husband. In front of their kids. He’s expressed no remorse, and is in jail. Bitch was trying to leave him, you see. IN FRONT OF their kids. One was five. She was trying to leave his abusive ass and now the eldest daughter is stuck, still loving her father, hating him too. Do these assholes ever think what something like this does to other people, even in the mythical ‘someone deserves it’ scenario?
weirwood treehugger is officially Best Pony for her commentary. <3
Am I a terrible person for hoping that all these guys finally DO Go Their Own Way…to a desert island with no Internet or anything? And that they meet with the Lord of the Flies while there, trying to out-alpha each other with these idiotic fish stories? And that nobody, but NOBODY, misses them when they go?
She was going to prevent you from seeing your kids. Hmmm I wonder why? couldn’t possibly have anything to do with you being the type of father who upon hearing that your children’s mother was murdered in front of them expresses happiness.
I’m pretty sure these people don’t see other people as anything other than set pieces in the stories of their lives. The lack of empathy here is simply appalling. I can only hope they are more restrained IRL.
@Johanna “Actually Godzilla” Roberts:
All of them, Katie!
@Dan Kasteray
No. You can’t help how you feel.
(People who go around posting fantasies about people getting murdered in forums dedicated to hate, or who congratulate people upon hearing of the murder of their spouses–those are bad people.)
Whether it is real or just an unpleasant fantasy, these people are pretty nasty pieces of work.
Assuming for a moment this man’s story is true…he’s now in a cleft stick, MGTOW wise. He just became a single parent. His only options are to step up as primary carer (which he won’t enjoy, ‘cos shit is HARD) or take on a woman to do it for him.
I hope he’s full of it, because his kids don’t deserve that.
Sure, that totally happened. Like come on, if you’re going to try to make a story about your revenge fantasy, at least learn to make it sound convincing. This is to edge like a list of ingredients makes a stew. Then again he could have actually made it from laughable to sickening if he went the extra mile and convinced his children that his behavior is normal and his wife deserved to die. Even more sickening if he were to say, go in heavy detail about why he was wronged by fate, the courts, and life, then the stars finally aligned to give him the “righteous vindication” that he oh so deserves. But writing is so hard man.
Though in that case, I don’t think his [nonexistent] children would like to know that their daddy is happy that mommy died, and bragged about it to the internet nonetheless. Something tells me that the kids are not going to be happy going back to a dad like that. More likely the children’s relatives would have alot more sympathy to the kids, and a whole lot less for the ex husband who wanted nothing but death for his late wife.
I do actually have a cat. A tabby named Heidi.
I was literally petting my cat to wash the taste of human refuse from my mind.
As for these manosphere guys, after some time to cool off I don’t wish they were dead. I just wish they were on a desert island with no internet.
@ Dan
I wish they realised what horrible people they are, and felt accordingly about themselves. There are few worse fates, yet it is exactly what they deserve. And I don’t even feel very cruel for saying (and believing) this.
Poor kids.
Even if this is just a fantasy and their mother is still alive and happy, poor kids. Nobody deserves a father like that.
They all can go lay on a bed of Legos for all I care! Excuse me while I pet my pooch…I needs me some brain bleach