http://no-maam.blogspot.com/2006/01/history-of-mens-movement-according-to.html.

From what i have seen it started with a very traditional /tradcon philosophy

 
<h3 class=”post-title entry-title”>”MGTOW Manifesto</h3>
 

The goal is to instill masculinity in men, femininity in women, and work toward limited government!

By instilling masculinity in men, we make men self-reliant, proud, and independent.

By instilling femininity in women, we make them nurturing, supporting, and responsible.

By working for a limited government, we are working for freedom and justice.

Women having “other qualities” is not interesting to men because we don’t need them! Femininity will be the price women pay for enjoying masculinity in me””””

One thing I wanna say before i go on.I dont think you can” install” femininity in women.Try and install femininity in andria dworkin.They either have it or they dont

Source :

http://no-maam.blogspot.com/2001/02/mgtow-manifesto.html

And then it grew and changed with thinkers like  Stardusk and Barbarossa https://www.youtube.com/user/barbarossaaaa

and https://www.youtube.com/user/Stardusk  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo1qRcO1OehgkOD_fHsu_uQ .

And many others on YouTube

And thought from thinkers of past decades like Robert Briffault:

“The female, not the male, determines all the conditions of the animal family. Where the female can derive no benefit from association with the male, no such association takes place.”

And Belfort Bax http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Belfort_Bax

Who wrote The Fraud of Feminism http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Fraud_of_Feminism

And more recently Karen  straughan https://www.youtube.com/user/girlwriteswhat .I will say right now that imo GWW has become utterly useless and increasingly toxic

And Helen Smith “Men on Strike”http://www.amazon.com/Men-Strike-Boycotting-Marriage-Fatherhood/dp/1594037620

And Milo Yiannopoulos in his article  The Sexodus  http://www.breitbart.com/london/2014/12/04/the-sexodus-part-1-the-men-giving-up-on-women-and-checking-out-of-society/

With all this work i say that

“MGTOW is basically the statement of self-ownership and saying that only you have the right to decide what your goals in life should be.”

Only scratches the surface.