MGTOW

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Pronunciation

  • The social phenomenon: IPA(key): /mɪɡtaʊ/

Noun

MGTOW (plural MGTOWs)

  1. (aviation) Initialism of maximum gross takeoff weight (“the maximum gross weight of a given aircraft, including its own weight and that of everything it is carrying, beyond which it would be unable to take off”).
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MGTOW

  1. (neologism, sometimes attributive) Acronym of Men Going Their Own Way (“an anti-feminist movement”).
    • 2007 July 27, MCP [username], “Bachelor Declaration”, in soc.men‎[1] (Usenet):
      This is my command - to spread this Declaration to all MGTOW and never surrender it to outsiders for they have no knowledge or wisdom in living well and free forever.
    • 2012 November 11, BetterOffSingle [username], “New Video: Why MGTOW is the new PUA!”, in alt.seduction.fast‎[2] (Usenet):
      The MGTOW (Men Going Their Own Way) movement began as a way for desperate men to avoid exploitation by women.
    • 2013 April 23, Revelations [username], “Re: The Victory (Over Semiramis) Is the Lord's”, in soc.men‎[3] (Usenet):
      Is Zed the Zenpriest still around, or has Mr. Elam permanently retired that persona in favor of its MGTOW philosophy of copping out from the real world?
    • 2018, Eric W. Saeger, Russian Nazi Troll Bots!: The Busy Person’s Guide to How Trump’s Trolls Won the Internet, What’s Ahead, and What You Can Do, Metro Clarion Media, →ISBN:
      ... who gets a little too addicted to the kindred "broship" he gets from MGTOW blogs and subreddits. If you haven't already guessed, the manosphere does have a few female ecelebrities on board, some of whom exhibit confounding behavior, ...
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:MGTOW.

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