Nearly 300,000 Americans have died of Covid already and cases are spiking nationwide. Meanwhile, over in the Men Going Their Own Way subreddit the regulars have been talking about what a great thing Covid has been for MGTOWs, at least according to their own perverse logic.
“Covid was really the best thing for MGTOW yet,” someone called Luciano700 declared in a recent thread, and his fellow MGTOWs were quick to agree. (This isn’t the first time MGTOWs have declared Covid an “ally,” but the reasons they give this time around are a bit more varied than the ones they gave the last time I caught them doing this.)
A commenter called fritobandito214 set forth a whole list of reasons he thinks Covid has been a gift to MGTOWs and men more generally.
Covid has been good for men in general:
We’ve been givin the right to keep women 6ft away from us without any repercussion for once.
Restaurants are closed, no expensive meals to buy, now the whores have to come over to our place and get plowed or keep their sorry ass at home.
Strong wymyn are being forced to stay at home to deal with and home school the monsters they’ve unleashed on society. (This one i especially love,love,LOVE!)
Men aren’t attention whores vs. women who are losing their minds in quarantine with no one around to give them attention, ENTER OnlyFans, exposing them for the true whores they are.
MGTOW men for the most part live a life of solitude so it’s business as usual during this pandemic, while wymyn are becoming pill popping, alcohol soaked addicts.
Other commenters suggested that Covid was exposing women’s perfidity — and tendency to cheat in relationships. Usual_Sir wrote
The thots can’t hide the truth to their beta provider, about Chad and Tyrone. Text messages and late night phone calls. Look for those covid red flags guys.
Some think that Covid essentially makes the case for MGTOW for them. Isthisthelasttime34 explained:
From purely a social perspective it has given men much firmer ground to stand on for not wanting to go the traditional marriage, kids, and soul crushing job route. Who can argue with somebody anymore for not wanting to do that? Absolutely nobody. And while we knew all along what we were doing, now all we have to do is point to the events of 2020 to shut down anybody getting upset about it.
Still others are glad that something has come along to disrupt daily life for everyone:
“Covid is good,” wrote non-w0ke.
It brings some balance back into play. Monkey branching is extremely hard after a major disasters, such as World War. Because people do not behave when asked nicely (kids, Karens) they are forced to deal with harsh reality. Reality and natural selection are the best teachers.
Others waxed rhapsodic about the possibility of even more apocalyptic social chaos — which they think will “put women in their place” again, like in the good old days.
“[I]t’s a nothing bug,” wrote Mozambique4Life.
But a wake-up call. if we had widespread Ebola for example, what would the world resort too.
Funny thing is we all know if society really turns to anarchy women will fall back on very traditional roles, just hide behind big strong men and suck cock to survive. nothing new there.
Keep dreaming, boys.
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I’m actually a little surprised by this, I would have expected a decent chunk of MGTOWs to be COVID deniers.
Wait, I thought you wanted to keep women away from you? Make up your mind, do you want them in your home, or 6 feet away?
I might add, one way to avoid buying expensive meals for other people is to not ask other people out. The women of the world would be glad.
Says the man posting on the Internet searching to get attention.
Being a MGTOW is selected against, because if you have no offspring on purpose your genes will not be passed on.
Funny, this isn’t what happens when that occurs. Usually it’s the people who can organize, cook, and care for others, which women are typically taught to do, who survive. Men who insist on “going their own way” and refusing to cooperate with others wouldn’t fare well in the long term.
If they truly wanted to go their own way, question patriarchy, find out how to grow and be happy in themselves and were like other humans and creatures are cool. All the best to y’all I’m just going my own way. I could rest that and might even feel they were contributing something valuable. But instead these men are so full of resentment and hatred towards women that I have no time for them once again I wish the MGTOWs would just fucking go away like they keep saying they want to do.
What was the repercussion before?
@viscaria
the repercussion were probably were they either got a boner or they assaulted a woman and she fought back in some way and they got in trouble for that.
Yes, a woman’s case against a man for failing to kiss her hand during the Covid pandemic would fall apart in court. She’d probably have trouble finding a lawyer for this kind of frivolous lawsuit. Case dismissed, feminists!
Don’t think it’s hands that Miggies are usually told to kiss by every woman they meet.
I swear mgtow are the biggest attention whores on the internet along with one of the biggest losers. the only ones that are at the same level as them are incels. Incels try to hide behind the lie that they want love and mgtows hide behind the lie that they won’t anything to do with women but then spend ever minute thinking about women.
This is a fairly small thing, considering [expansive hand gesture] you know, everything they said, but I find myself stuck on that one guy who used Ebola as an example of an Even Worse Plague.
Because the thing is, as I’ve learned from an epidemiologist friend of mine, we would probably be better off with Ebola. I mean, yeah, the disease itself is awful (but a universal vaccine is on the way!), but because it’s only contagious through direct contact with bodily fluids, and only after symptoms have started, it is much easier to contain than Covid, especially in the west where we have better infrastructure and so on. That is also why the outbreaks that occur every so often don’t spread much beyond their origin countries (every once in a while you get some folks who got on a plane before realizing they’re sick, but it’s still fairly easy to deal with, because again, not as contagious).
File that under “one more thing MGTOWs get hopelessly wrong”.
Oh, honey. No one wanted to get within 6 feet of you.
Uh, dude. Baby boomers are called that because people coupled up all over the place after WWII and there was a spike in birth rates. Disasters do not keep people from fucking or from marrying. Men are going to be thirstier than ever after we’re all vaxxed up.
I for one prefer to stay at least six feet, if not six miles away from a MGTOW.
“From purely a social perspective it has given men much firmer ground to stand on for not wanting to go the traditional marriage, kids, and soul crushing job route. Who can argue with somebody anymore for not wanting to do that? Absolutely nobody. And while we knew all along what we were doing, now all we have to do is point to the events of 2020 to shut down anybody getting upset about it.”
Am I the only one confused by this? It sounds like the dude is saying that nobody will want to be married because a plague will come along at some point? I feel like I’m missing something obvious…
@Penny Psmith
If you subscribe to the notion that Stacies are exchanging bodily fluids with three different Chads every day, then you could easily believe Ebola has the potential to kill off 80% of the human race in a couple of weeks if it got the chance…
@.45
I don’t really get it either, but if I were to hazard a guess I’d say maybe he’s trying to say that he doesn’t want that family model and job situation because it could fall apart in a pandemic with economic uncertainty. Given that pandemics aren’t that common, I think it’s a bit of an odd worry, but that’s how MGTOWs are.
At work, I’ve had to support more and more clinics who’re doing COVID-19 testing. I’m already angry at COVID-19 deniers.
Leave it to the MGTOWs to find a new bottom of the barrel.
Dating during COVID is intense: going from walking together while staying 6′ away to being in range to look each other in the eyes with an awkward smirk is a *commitment*. From there to being in bed together feels much less significant. It’s weird.
Compounded by the laws meaning that if you had a good time walking around the park, the next step is “your place or mine?” since there’s nowhere else to hang out.
Anyway all that to say: weirwoodtreehugger, the thirst is already there (and of course the women are just as thirsty as the men).
I guess this guy has never heard of the Wall Street Panic of 1907 or World War I or the Depression or World War II or the Vietnam conflict or the Iraq conflicts (either one) or . . . anything, really, that people have lived through and still managed to get married, have kids, and hold down jobs that they maybe didn’t actually love or even like — in fact could barely tolerate.
That said, go for it, MGTOW. Please turn your backs on marriage and kids and jobs. The world will be a better place for it.
@numerobis
Yes. Although I don’t want to take the risks of dating in a pandemic, as soon as this ends I want to date again.
I will say that I know i’m in college and I’m bad about wearing my wedding ring all of the time, But the amount of guys hitting on me has actually gone up. And they hit on me with my mask on which amazes me because They don’t know what I look like. I got out far less then I use to but men make far more of an effort to talk to me, flirt with me, tell me I look nice in those times I do go out.
Like every time I leave my apartment. had some guy hit at me at the mail boxes the other a month ago, I was outside for 5 minutes. Hell I’ve had guys do it in the chat box in zoom meetings during class. the thirst dial has been turned up over a thousand. My view is mostly guys in their early 20s which I know are not what most MGTOWs are. but yeah the pandemic isn’t going to bring shit down. From my point of view guys will hand it out to a woman they don’t know in a hoodie dress, combat boots and a mask that takes up most of her face.
After reading this, I’m starting to think the real pandemic threatening this country isn’t Covid-19 but Assholery-20.
These are the same guys who go “but in the old days people worked on marriage instead of divorce”, completely ignoring AFAB people usually having to kill their abusive spouse in non-obvious ways or die to abuse.
@Penny
Yep, it’s why they work so hard to contain outbreaks, because the massive fear is Ebola making the jump to airborne. If that happened, MGTOWs wouldn’t have time to pontificate about just how much women are going to be put back in their place, because they’d be dead along with billions of other people (it’s weird how they always put great faith in their ability to survive disasters). I didn’t know a vaccine was on the cards though! That is happy making news.
One thing I do find amusing is, in order for their *cough* philosophy *cough* to fit the real world (and for ego stroking purposes) they all partake in the group delusion that women just won’t leave them alone. I swear a clear third of their posts are “girlfriend come crawling back” or “wall-hitter at work pathetically chatting me up” – complete with their devastating quips and put downs.
Seconding .45 on being confused about the “logic” involved in the argument, but I’m also confused at the implication that someone who doesn’t want to get married has bunches of folks arguing with them against their position. That literally never happened to me when I was single, except for the occasional inquiry by my mom.
Miggies think they are the center of everyone’s universe….
@ LollyPop:
They’re like non-funny versions of the characters Canadian comedians Rick Green and Paul Chato used to play, who were convinced that “we drive chicks mad!” At least Lou and Hymie seemed content to believe this without actually bothering any of the women they thought were ogling them, and usually ended the sketch by returning home so their supposed hotness wouldn’t spark a riot.
@Gaebolga
This also combines with their belief that everything they hate is the work of feminists, so they’ve convinced themselves that feminists are trying to force all men to get married, which is not the case for any feminists I’ve ever known.
This has the same energy as the kid who didn’t make the freshman basketball team because he refused to learn the rules, wouldn’t pass the ball, and was a dipshit to the coach. Now he’s heckling from the stands. “Ha ha losers, you have to do wind sprints! Hope you enjoy it!”
When you purposely remove yourself from the game, you don’t get to critique how other people play it.
[citation needed]
Even if that were true, you don’t have to look very hard to see a connection between men carrying on as usual, and the mental health toll on women frantically trying to juggle the house, their (frequently front-line caregiving, teaching, or retail) job, their kids’ schooling, and the needs of the family. Women are LITERALLY BEING THE ADULTS in this scenario, and this chucklefuck is cackling to himself, so very happy that this pandemic is making life excruciatingly hard for the very people who are working to keep society going at the most basic level. What are MGTOWs doing to contribute, other than being parasites and standing around making snide comments?