Men Going Their Own Way

MGTOW logo as shown in episode "Men at War" of the BBC series Reggie Yates' Extreme UK[1]

Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW /ˈmɪɡtaʊ/) is an anti-feminist, misogynistic, mostly online community advocating for men to separate themselves from women and society, which they believe has been corrupted by feminism.[2] 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.[3]

Like other manosphere communities, MGTOW overlaps with the neoreactionary alt-right movement[4] and has been implicated in online harassment of women.[5] The Southern Poverty Law Center categorizes MGTOW as a part of the male supremacist ideology.[6]

  1. ^ BBC (2016).
  2. ^ Wright, Trott & Jones (2020), pp. 910–911; Nagle (2017), p. 94; Lin (2017), p. 78; Górska, Kulicka & Jemielniak (2023)
  3. ^ Hodapp (2017), p. xviii; Jones, Trott & Wright (2020), p. 2; Ging (2019), p. 644; Zuckerberg (2018), pp. 15–17; Nagle (2017), p. 93
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Alt-right was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Wright, Trott & Jones (2020), p. 909; Nagle (2017), pp. 18, 94; Ribeiro et al. (2021), p. 196
  6. ^ "Male Supremacy". Southern Poverty Law Center. Archived from the original on 7 June 2018.