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1. Relationship history:
I’m single, and I’ve always been so. For some quirk of chance, I’ve missed all the usual traps and pitfalls all my friends have stumbled into. I’ve tried most of the vices available at early on and didn’t find any of them particularly pleasurable.
Rather than hit my head to those particular walls and find the madness therein, I continued steadfast to those interests I found great deal of pleasure in: amazing stories, memorable characters, bonechilling music and visual cornucopia that the modern gaming has evolved into.
Guess you could call me a particularly stubborn sumvabitch, as I got laden with the usual brand of shaming for my choices and it didn’t even cause a twitch. My mother used to tell me I fell to floor headfirst two times as a child. Guess the oak in parquet floor wasn’t that big a deal to my cranium.
This also transitions to my opinions; they usually are blunt, variably unvarnished, freely and frequently given. As you can guess, the blue pill friends with significant others I met and gave my advice and opinions to usually were not that receptive to my ideas about life and living in general – causing the next invite to their shindig to be lost in mail.
All in all, you could say I was an old curmudgeon in a young body to them; best to be avoided and put away from mind so that those disturbing thoughts wouldn’t get into fresh soil and start to grow.
Funny thing is I had a pretty good childhood. My parents are still married, reasonably happy with life. My father is stern (if a bit more mellowing), opinionated, generous and forgiving. A real man, in my opinion, who doesn’t take s~~~ from nobody. He’s had some real bumps in life, but he’s picked himself up and resumed his life like a trooper. As for my mother, she’s been about the only really positive experience with the feminine side. Very supportive, helpful and also real.
Whereas I am in my thoughts more often than not, my younger brother is far more outgoing with his own family and single child. We didn’t have any kind of real spats siblings usually have, as I started focusing my interest in opposite direction from him and didn’t compete with his choice of interest (bikes, cars and girls).
2. Awareness:
You could say I’ve been very lucky as to not having great upheavals in my life due to my life choices. That has also made my transition to MGTOW lifestyle far more gradual, almost unobtrusively so. Few years back, trawling the net, I found The Spearhead and article ‘Hate bounces: How man-hating and man-bashing harms women – the making of a misogynist’ by Zed. Final quote from that article resonated with me strongly:
‘I would like nothing better than to be left in peace, and allow women to enjoy the absence of my company which they find so annoying and unpleasant. Every day, a few more men got through the transformation and become like me. We don’t get our guns and shoot a few women; we don’t beat them up; because what women have been saying about us all these years is just flat wrong. But, there’s no point in trying to tell women that because they have become so certain of their superiority that the best way to deal with them is to leave them to it, and the company of their other fishy friends.’
That is the day I finally became a MGTOW, both in spirit and in the letter of the word.
3. Who you are:
I’m 41-years old graphic designer working in gaming industry, a new business venture which I am co-founder of. My main passion in life is gaming and has been since I was 6 or 7 years old. I have read science fiction and fantasy voraciously for 30 years mainly in english as translations to my native language were far and between. I’m the usual guy my friends got tips for brand new quality TV series and movies that were often going to be cult classics later on.
My favourite quote is ‘Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.’ by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 – 1894). It’s a creed (lol) I plan to live by to the end of my days.
jambear 5 years, 3 months ago.
