I’ve been going MGTOW for about a year and a half now, but it’s just now that I’m finally starting to want to get my story out there. As the title implies, I am an Arab American who’s been born and raised in the United States. Although I was raised Christian, I have been an Atheist since I was 15 years old. The reason for my story is because I want people to know about the Middle Eastern culture, and how oppressive and destructive it is for men. People talk much about how bad it is for women, but I assure everyone, that it’s ten fold times worse for men. The Arab culture is all about men working like dogs to support their wives and their families while their wives go on vacation and go on day spas with their friends and relatives, and the man is expected to pay for all of it. Arab women are raised to be beautiful so that they could find a rich man, and men are told as children that if they don’t become a doctor or a lawyer, then they are not men and will never find anyone to marry them. Needless to say, this is how I was raised, for my parents told me that no matter what, I have to become a lawyer or a doctor if I ever want to be called a man by people in my community.

About myself, I am in my late 20’s and I have a Bachelor’s and 2 Master’s degrees, and I received my education from 1st-tier universities. Needless to say, I am very well educated for my age and I have accomplished much, and I paid for my entire education myself, for my parents told me that I’m not a man unless I pay for everything myself. There were days in middle and high school where I went hungry for the entire day because my Mom told me that I’m a man, and I need to work if I want to eat, and she wouldn’t give me any money lunch money. Keep in mind that I was in my early teens at this point. Anyways, I have dated dozens of girls in my life, and it never worked out (especially after college) with any of them because I wasn’t “rich enough” for them, especially from the Arab girls that I dated. Every Arab girl told me that I wasn’t good enough for her because I didn’t have everything ready for them, like the house, the cars, the career, and everything else women want in a marriage, even though I was still a student. One Arab girl I dated for a year only dated me because I was “fun to hang out with,” yet she left me when her Mom found a man for her to marry, and he was 20 years older than her and was fat, bald and very unattractive, yet she decided to marry him and the following month, they had their engagement party. I was quite upset and depressed after this. It was after years of this kind of torture that I decided for myself that I would never date any woman every again, and certainly not marry anyone either. My parents think of me as a failure, even though I’m quite successful for my age (and I have started my own business last year, just because I don’t want to get married. They even tried to get me to marry my first cousin! Cousin marriages are also very common in the Middle Eastern culture. Anyways, my Mom tells all her sisters and friends about how disappointed she is in me, and everyone is trying their hardest to get me to get married. They don’t understand, and I doubt they ever will. I’m the only Arab that I know who’s decided to take this path in life (and I know literally thousands of Arabs), and no one in my community even tries to understand why I decided to take this path. What a destructive and incredibly unreasonable culture this is.

Anyways, I just wanted everyone to be aware of how oppressed Arab men are, for they all feel the same pain that I did, yet they are all too weak to leave the culture and go on their own, as that is how they were raised. Taking the red pill was hard for me, but breaking free of my indoctrination was the most liberating feeling I have ever felt in my entire life, and I will continue to encourage those in my community to break free of their indoctrination and leave this destructive culture once and for all.

Thanks for sharing, I’m intrigued by any sort of indifference one would be willing to speak out about the Arab community. Much dialog is needed between logical Arabs and and otherwise open minded people. Arab radicals have no legitimate platform to speak from among civilized men, nor do any people who engage in tyranny and murder.

I’d like to follow this thread, but am unable to download email at this time, sorry.

There’s this story of a young woman who was found charred to a crisp. She was this cute white girl with blue eyes and blond hair. I think she was a cheerleader. She found some thugs and had one for a boyfriend. Then she dumped him for another. The first one decided to kill her, so they burned her alive. She chose to get involved with thugs. Why didn’t she realize that they are nasty evil people who burn women alive? I believe it’s because she thought that no matter what, someone was going to bail her out.

Arabs think I’m gay, and that’s a big shame among Arabs.

Hey GameSpot, shame is no stranger to a man willing to look at his own reflection, and peer deep into his own person for the liberating truths of understanding his surroundings. People cast shame on each other to hide their ignorance, they haven’t the will or courage to self reflect, they remain in the comfort of pride.

Again, I must commend you on your willingness to break boundaries. Like sheep in a fenced yard, many people are blindly lead along never awaking to their own reality. Some sheep are lead over a cliff, suffering the fate of their own ignorance. You’re a smart guy, you know you’re not gay, that’s all that matters, even if you were gay, it wouldn’t matter. Being a real MAN is a matter of humility. You seem like a guy that has humbled him self and are able to recognize your own pride; a stumbling block to self reflection.

I not only encourage you, I’m cheering you on! Go for it! You’ll be a greater man than any cleric could possibly hope to be. Men were made lead, not to follow. I salute you, SIR!

Men are rejected by many people in society, their own race or creed, their women, governments, religion, cultural communities and more but keep this analogy in mind:   You may be the building stone your culture rejected, but destined to become  the cornerstone in the mgtow  Monument.

Perhaps you can’t flaunt your masculinity but at least you define it yourself now. Your society may think of you as a failure, but that’s a sentiment you can throw right back while you take back the reigns. I’ve had similar experiences as MG-Tower in The Netherlands, and coupled with my Egyptian adventure my frame of reference is small. But one thing I am sure of is that you are not a failure, society failed you. According to what I consider to be a man, you are a prime example of getting s~~~ done despite your hardships.