Men Going Their Own Way

Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW /ˈmɪɡtaʊ/) is an anti-feminist, misogynistic, mostly online community that espouses male separatism from what they see as a gynocentric society that has been corrupted by feminism.^[2] MGTOW specifically advocate for men to avoid marriage and committed romantic relationships with women.^[3] The community is a part of the manosphere, a collection of anti-feminist websites and online communities that also includes the men's rights movement, incels, and pickup artists.^[4]

Like other manosphere communities, MGTOW overlaps with the neoreactionary alt-right movement^[5] and has been implicated in online harassment of women^[6] and domestic terrorism in the United States.^[7] Southern Poverty Law Center categorizes MGTOW as a part of the male supremacist ideology.^[8]

^ BBC (2016).
^ Wright, Trott & Jones (2020), pp. 910–911; Nagle (2017), p. 94; Lin (2017), p. 78; Górska, Kulicka & Jemielniak (2023)
^ O'Donnell (2022), pp. 25–26.
^ Hodapp (2017), p. xviii; Jones, Trott & Wright (2020), p. 1904; Ging (2019), p. 644; Zuckerberg (2018), pp. 15–17; Nagle (2017), p. 93
^ Cite error: The named reference Alt-right was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Wright, Trott & Jones (2020), p. 909; Nagle (2017), pp. 18, 94; Ribeiro et al. (2021), p. 196
^ Dmitrieva, Aleksandra M.; Meloy, J. Reid (2022). "Troubled waters: Domestic terrorism threat in the U.S. coast guard and the TRAP-18". Journal of Threat Assessment and Management. 9 (3): 153–170. doi:10.1037/tam0000170.
^ "Male Supremacy". Southern Poverty Law Center. Archived from the original on 7 June 2018.