MGTOW: MGTOW stands for Men Going Their Own Way. A term that MGTOW often use for themselves is "Ethical Sociopaths", meaning that cultural values have become so chaotic and disconnected from reality that resisting and turning one's back on social values and social pressure often results in a many men being able toive manner than those who follow the herd. The philosophy of individualism expressed in such diverse sources as Thoreau's "marching to the sound of a different drummer" to the child in Aesop's fable about the Emperor's new clothes, show that social pressure to conform is not always positive.

The Marriage Strike: Call it the "Marriage Strike" or "Marriage Boycott" or Men being "afraid to make a committment", more and more men are coming to see marriage as a raw deal, with the deck totally stacked against them, paricularly in the case of divorce and when it comes to child custody and support, and division of marital assets.