I have been exposed to a thing called MGTOW ... Men going their own way. Somewhat of a "mens rights" movement if there can be such a thing.
The only interest I really have in it all are those similarities to how I live my own life and the comparative sociology of the so-called "womyn" movement quite a while back where the feminists looking all frumpy, fugly, and pissed off adopted this nonstandard spelling of the word “women” that they might avoid a word representing themselves incorporating the suffix of 'men'.
The whole MGTOW smacks of metrosexuality gone radical and makes me think of lesbians only it concerns straight males who simply seek independence from those cultures espousing coupling with the opposite sex.
About the only thing I've noticed about the entirety of it all is how some of the ladies go bat crap crazy when they cannot dominate or manipulate their partners all of a sudden when they decide that the need to 'go their own way' as it were ...
It seems that the paradigm of heterosexuality has shifted to a one to many from a one to one model. My personal thoughts remain "old school" and I am more inclined toward traditional roles and a model more attuned to the interpersonal relationship where meaning has substance as I interpret it.
All too often I see those who grow weary of interaction at those levels leading to this phenomenon of men going their own way. I certainly can't knock it given the fact that I have unconsciously been practicing since my early thirties.
I just feel that romance suffers when everything is about one thing be it a person or relationship. I like to consider others special too.
The relationship thing was bound to change with all those other manifestations of altered reality like trans-this and trans-that and "preferred personal pronouns" as though they actually mean something.
Perhaps when (and if) we return to that reality governed by who we really are instead of these manufactured fantasies where little boys sue because they can't make themselves up like little girls for their drivers license photos all with the blessings their "proud" misguided idiot mothers than perhaps we will eventually return to that thing we've lost sight of called meaningfulness.
Sooner or later it needs to stop being "all about me".