So I found MGTOW a few years ago. The red pill didn't really appeal to me and I'm married. Weird I know. But life is generally good for me and my wife has noticed that I am infinitely happier and a better husband after deciding to "Go my own way." Here is an observation I have made from my life, the life of my best friend and the life of a few others I am around rather frequently.

The way I see it, we have three options. Paths really, all the options boil down to these three paths.

1) Buy into the system. Revoke manhood as toxic and unhealthy and try to be "an agent of change." These men are seen as weak. Not only by women, whose approval they actively seek, but by their peers. Most men are so far down this path, that changing now means everything they know, everything they are, everything they have ever done, is essentially wrong. Many men have looked down that path and seen where it leads and left the path. Many more are left feeling hollow at the mere thought of leaving the path, so deep is their indoctrination. These are the white knights. When I first decided to go my own way, I envied them. Their easy lives, no critical thought, no deeper introspection. Now I pity them.

2) Be a wolf. Know you are a bad man in a bad world. Learn to dominate the social scene and revel in the sex and limelight in a way that most men wish they could. These men, more often than not are viewed by society as broken. They don't want to "settle down." From what I have seen, and this is only a superficial observation, these men are left feeling hollow. When sex loses its appeal, when domination is no longer satisfying, they have nothing to turn to. Mind you I have no experience with this realm. Not because I am some paragon of morality and ethics, but because that life didn't appeal to me. It never did, I convinced myself it did though, when I was still on the first path. But the third path gave me some personal revelation.

3) This path is our path, or at least mine. This path is the most dangerous. One realizes that being an alpha male is ultimately fruitless. He realizes that he doesn't want to walk blindly into the "glorious egalitarian future." So he turns to introspection. He looks deep inside himself and sees that what is there isn't pretty. This man understands the true nature of the world, the hypocrisy and fallacy that are rampant. This path is dangerous because one must look into the abyss, and embrace what looks back. Some can't, some return to the first path. Some take their lives because they feel as if they have lost something. But the few that survive, they are met with true freedom. Freedom from the world as everyone else sees it and free to be their own man.

These are the choices as I see them. These are the results that I have seen so far. I may be wrong, but I am free.