I still say it's not really a thing. It's a specter invented by people with ulterior motives; and latched on to by a small number of people who flit in and out of marginal groups. What is the difference between the nu-age crystal astrology crowd and them?
Aggression or the possibility of it? Sure, well maybe...I can imagine arguments for that in several directions. But one has to be delusional to also not see the poisoned well propaganda. Exceptions to the rule nutsos- the guy in Toronto, the Elliot Rodgers of the world- don't make a movement. And if that is the insistence for the rule, well; I don't see how that doesn't lead to a lot of other fraught conversations about dangerous groups. And it underappreciated that sub-cultural phenomena (as far as it exists) often harbors a lot of...negativity...for a variety of reasons.
Others are more nebulous and rely too heavily on cant and socially approved terms of abuse...in other words they don't mean anything except what the author or speaker contrives during improvisation. A lot of it, like the articles MFF posted, are really just calls to piety.
Calls to piety, of course, run in all directions.
What is underreported in all of these conceptualizations is just how
nerdy the whole exercise is.
The MGTOW crowd that I know are a bunch of nerds or dorks or geeks (or however you want to parse these groups).
In an age where mass culture caters to "nerds"-- every issue is browbeaten in a way only nerds can get behind.
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