Ok...Hi y'all. I haven't been super active here in a while but after reading a post recently, I decided I wanted to ask you all some questions. I want to have an honest conversation about MGTOW.
The wiki definition of MGTOW is..."MGTOW (”Men Going Their Own Way”) is a way of life which refuses to defer to women in defining the worth of men. Instead, it focuses on positive male aspects, inviting men to go their own way in life."
That seems innocent enough but my experience with MGTOW has not been positive. I have seen some seriously hateful, extreme sides of mgtow. It is the same with feminism, that it why at a surface level I am not a supporter of feminism.
Question 1: Do you think it is biblical to support/believe in mgtow?
Question 2: Do you believe it is a generally positive movement?
Question 3: If you follow mgtow, is it because you dislike women and why?
Personally, I am not a general fan of things that divide us by gender and age or anything else. I feel we should be united brothers and sisters in Christ. I'm just trying to understand. I am fully aware this may lead to some off putting comments. My hope is we have a kind, honest conversation about this.
Hey sis! Interesting topic.
I'm probably going to say something offensive to someone by giving my viewpoint here...I'm not trying to recruit anyone so please, people, take it easy...
We have scripture, we have the whole suffrage movement, we have diehard feminists, and now it seems we have MGTOW.
As many know, there is plenty of arguing done here on CC about womens "place" in the home and the church. Truly we are all called to walk in God's will for our lives and that means sharing the good news of Christ with everyone.
At home in this time of history, roles of family life and marriage lines are wrecked. Wrecked by mothers needing to work to help support an intact family, single parents left to do the majority of parenting on their own, often letting our children slip into cracks, women that think they are above their husbands, men who think the Bible gives them domination of their wives. People who truly love each other work together for God's glory, for their family, and for each other. Satan has managed to destroy the ultimate plan of marriage as God truly intended partnership to be.
I see the early suffrage movement as women wanting some of the same privileges of men...what it has become though is beyond what was ever sought for to begin with. It has become more of a poison that seems to have made women become so independent, that we remain hardened against sharing our lives with a good man as God intended and destroying the lives of unborn children because we think more of our own bodies and not the little souls being slaughtered.
I see this new MGTOW as a whole flip side to the diehard feminists. Men who are so angry and bitter who have been hurt by one of "those" women and so, become weak by joining the dark forces of this world in retaliation. They are no different than the feminists.
So much of this is centered around dividing people and hate.
When you are a believer in Christ, you don't rally against His creation as He intended it to be and join the enemy that has warped it. You fight in the corner for what the HS convicts you is Holy and just...not what the world tells you.
God never allowed my heart to be hardened and there are plenty of painful reasons it should be if it werent for forgiveness. There are good men and women out there that havent fallen into the devil's trap of hate, and even if they have, God loves them and wants to rescue them. So, I guess our focus should really be on God and His example. We aren't of this world and we have no place belonging in it's groups.
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