First there is MGTOW, for “Men Going Their Own Way” – their own way being, hopefully, nowhere near women, who are all liars and cheats. Men Going Their Own Way like to hang out with other men going the same way on forums or YouTube, where they happily converse for hours and pages about exactly the thing they are supposedly pledged to avoid. PUAs profit from workshops teaching shy men how to insult women to get their attention and try their luck. Both groups, Bates points out, essentially think of women as slot machines for sex. Damaging male behaviour has for a while been called “toxic masculinity”, but the problem with accusing people like Johnson of toxic masculinity is that what they will choose to hear is a) that they are very masculine (jolly good!

Source: The Guardian September 02, 2020 06:22 UTC