MGTOW stands for Men Going Their Own Way!!This is a movement that started way back in the 70's where strong self sufficient men in the West started rejecting the concept of marriage and eventually began living life on their own terms.
No one ever thought that this movement would make its way into India. India has a strong society where family serves as a protective roof for an individual.With the advent of feminism in India in the 80's, institutions like family, marriage and extended social relations started getting affected. In 1983 there was an amendment in the dowry act, criminalizing dowry which invoked a draconian section known as 498 A Dowry act.More amendments followed. In 2005, the Domestic Violence act was invoked followed by amendments in many other laws that were anti-male and ant-marriage. These laws made it very clear that should the marriage fail, the man and his family were to lose everything: money, reputation and property.
The early decade of 90's witnessed economic liberalization and end of the license raj, bureaucracy and redtapism. A free market started and many industrial sectors opened up to foreign investments. Cable TV and satellite television made its way into our living rooms and so did western culture. With Ekta Kappors's family drama soaps occupying prime time on all popular channels we got to witness the rise in the toxicity and paranoia amongst the young Indian girls especially from small cities and towns.
Economic liberalization brought new opportunities in India and jobs paid higher salaries. Men started earning good packages reaping the benefits of a growing economy. IT and IT enabled services picked up in India generating jobs offering good salaries. Similarly, MBA's with college placements offering unheard packages become the talk of the town.
Women became equally empowered by obtaining a decent educations and joining the work force. Unfortunately by the late 90's the institution of marriage was commercialized. The girl and her parents started looking for benefits in the marriage. Who earned a better salary?Which man had a green card?Who had got an onsite posting? Who owned a house of his own? Men started being looked upon as commodities. No one was interested in behaviour, character and integrity. Morals did not mater in the face of materialism.
By the dawn of the 21st century, the Indian man had become a commodity in the marriage market. His education, job, monthly salary, bank balance and property etc defined his marital prospects. Simultaneously third wave feminism hit India. Indian women became more demanding. An over pampered generation of women were looking for benefits and luxuries from marriage. When their marriages did not work out, they went the courts and a new trend emerged where in women started filling all kinds of false cases like 498 A, DV, mental harassment etc against the husbands and the in-laws.Innocent men became the victims of a gender biased and prejudiced legal system.
In early 2000's the men's rights movement started. It was a stand taken against the false cases filled by a women and their families against the husbands. Internet followed by social media brought an awareness on this issue.
In the early 10's, the MGTOW movement finally arrived in India. Wise Indian men decided to take the red pill and go the MGTOW way. By this time the institution of marriage had become dysfunctional.Men had seen what damage failed marriages had brought upon other men.You tube channels started spreading awareness on the MGTOW movement. Matrimonial websites exposed the underbelly of greed and materialism of the women and their parents.Such stories of greed and gold diggers were shared on Qoura, a popular story sharing site.
By 2019, the time when I am writing this post, the MGTOW movement is active across Indian with new followers joining it each day.
Just forget marriage, MGTOW men have nothing to do with women. The METOO movement has become another example of toxic feminzasim.
This is how the MGTOW movement started and gain popularity in India and as a veteran MGTOW, I just thought of writing a brief history.
This is Bhaveen Sheth signing off for the day and will be back with a lot more.
BHAVEEN SHETH
INDIAN MGTOW
