Men Going Their Own Way

Men Going Their Own Way MGTOW is an anti-feminist, misogynistic, mostly-online community advocating for men to separate themselves from women & from the society which they believe has been corrupted by feminism. The community is a component of a men's rights movement, incels, in addition to pickup artists.

Like other manosphere communities, MGTOW overlaps with the alt-right and white supremacist movements, and it has been implicated in online harassment of women. The Southern Poverty Law Center categorizes MGTOW as a factor of the male supremacist ideology.

Relation to other manosphere groups

The MGTOW community is a part of the manosphere, a heterogeneous group of websites, blogs, and online forums promoting some forms of masculinity, hostility towards women, strong opposition to feminism, and exaggerated misogyny. In addition to MGTOW, the men's rights movement, incels, pick-up artists, and father's rights movements also cost the manosphere.

Although some consider MGTOW to be a part of the men's rights movement, others realize cited MGTOW's separatist ideology as distinguishing them from the men's rights movement, which engages in activism to try to drive societal change. According to Donna Zuckerberg, early MGTOW groups were primarily libertarian and opposed to "big government"; this led to a rift with the men's rights movements who wished to lobby for governmental change, especially with regards to divorce law.

The MGTOW community has a reciprocal disdain for pickup artists PUAs due to their differing opinions towards women. Whereas MGTOW focuses on separating entirely from women, pickup artists focus on coding techniques to hit sex with women. PUA communities have mocked MGTOW as "Virgins Going Their Own Way". MGTOW communities deride PUAs as being entirely dependent on women's approval, and because they place so much usefulness in attaining sexual success with women, MGTOW says PUA communities contribute to what they see as overvaluing of women in gynocentric society.