Commenter jg1 had some interesting points to add to my recent post that took the MGTOW movement to task for spreading despair:

I cannot for the life me find any evidence that MGTOW is a movement? Can you point me to where I can find its leadership and where it obtains its financing? For your very wordy blogpost, you still have not presented any solutions for us low IQ plebs on how to fight the big govt juggernaut behind the misandryist laws(including #metoo) and ways to defund the feminist movement? Until and unless there are ways to tackle this elephant in the room , the intended goal of total gender segregation to cull population will continue.

The social engineers have succeeded far beyond their expectations to actually cause a schism between the genders to prevent procreation from happening. As is obvious to you, the next stage in the gender segregationist goal is to jail men for merely looking at a woman. Here in Texas, a law has been passed where at any of its public universities, if a male student made a joke about sex in front of a female student, the former is subjected to a 6 month jail term. If the said incident is not reported to authorities, that too will result in a similar jail term. 

So, as males are being boxed in and isolated, how are we expected to fight back?

My response was as follows:

Stop thinking hierarchically and vertically, as Asians always do. Movements do not require a single point of leadership to be movements. If you REALLY want to find evidence of “MGTOW as a movement” – you could try starting at, oh I dunno, www.mgtow.com.

[Y]ou will find literally hundreds of blog posts over six years providing direct solutions to all of the problems you have listed, but here are a few from my experience to spare you some effort:

Don’t hire women into your workplaces or teams. Don’t join all-female or majority-female companies. Don’t work in female-heavy industries. Don’t be in any meeting room alone with a woman – ensure that all of your conversations with them are recorded and that at least one other witness is present.

Don’t send your kids to public universities – put them in trade schools instead. If you do attend a university, do a technical degree at a serious school that teaches serious subjects – whether it be Oklahoma Wesleyan University for a small Christian school, or CalTech/MIT/U Chicago for research.

Homeschool your kids. Go to church regularly, engage in fellowship and brotherhood with your Christian brothers (if you are a Christian, that is), and make sure that your church isn’t cucked out.

Don’t give your money to big globalist corporations that promote misandrist garbage, like Gillette – for instance, switch to using safety razors and shave soap, which will give you a vastly better shave than anything that Gillette can come up with.

Spend time in male-dominated clubs and societies, such as shooting ranges, hunting groups, and serious martial arts dojos. Girls generally dislike direct physical conflict and stress, so you will find brotherhood, fellowship, and guidance in those places, and so will your sons.

jg1 then posted a follow-up comment which I thought was worth addressing at greater length:

But, with all this, the inescapable fact is that , we have live in a bubble which is impossible. How is one going to separate oneself from the dominant culture? 

Hiring only males in a company will only result in a discrimination lawsuit from the EEOC!! Church is no better when you see the changes going on in the SBC, LDS and even the Catholic churh [sic]….only option is home church…

All your other solutions you have presented have been spelled out before, so its nothing new. This is no whiny fest, but someone who genuinely wants to know of any unique perspective on a situation from a person with a IQ of 140. How much longer can one wait till things resolves themselves short of a societal and economic meltdown to occur?

This is pure and simple forced gender segregation with the main goal of population reduction. It is as plain as that…

There is a lot to address in this comment, and there are a number of valid, if rather flawed, points that are raised, so this deserves a serious and studied answer.

First, jg1 is entirely correct to argue that the odds are seriously stacked against us right now. Everything in our modren society is set against us as men, at least in the Western world – and in large parts of much of the rest of the world too.

Everything we believe in as traditionalists is derided, mocked, hated. We are routinely regarded as racist sexist homophobic dipshits – and that is the very mildest of the insults leveled at us. The full force and power of the government is used against us at every possible opportunity. Big corporations everywhere are fully converged in the name of the globohomo ideology and will not hesitate to fire us, deplatform us, take away all means of sustenance, and throw us out onto the streets to starve – unless we bend the knee to their lies, and sell our souls.

And that is before we get to the absolutely disastrous state of our women. In the Western world, they start out being told all sorts of nonsensical propaganda about how they can do anything!!! and be whatever they want to be!!!, in direct defiance of sense, logic, and evidence. They grow up marinated in a culture of toxic filth that encourages them to become tattooed whores, and far too many of them get whacked, HARD, with the Hambeast Fairy’s Ugly Wand by the time they hit their early twenties. By the time they decide to “settle down” for a life of married, uh, “bliss”, their notch counts usually edge up into the double digits – especially if you are from New Zealand, which is apparently home to the most promiscuous women in the Western world – and their ability to produce children is all but used up.

That is the bleak and terrible hellscape that awaits most men in the West.

Look, brothers, I KNOW it’s bad. I’ve been practically screaming at anyone who will listen to me that things are bad, for six and a half years. All you have to do is go back in the blog archives to 2013 and you will see just how black-pilled I was, and in some ways still am.

So why do I no longer preach the counsel of despair, if I ever did? Why is it that I keep telling men like jg1 and the various MGTOW types who have stopped by this blog to quit crying, pick themselves up, dust themselves off, and GET INTO THE FIGHT?

Because despair is what THEY want.

THEY want you to feel hopeless. THEY want you to quit. THEY want you to believe that the cause is lost, that nothing matters but hedonistic pleasure and detachment from reality.

When you give up, THEY win.

The very things that jg1 rails against – about forced gender segregation with a view toward population reduction of the smartest, hardest-working, most productive races and elements of society – ABSOLUTELY WILL COME TO PASS if we simply give up and stop fighting.

This blog doesn’t do propaganda. Men like us are about solutions, not cheerleading. Many of us – self included – have been through Hell. I’m still going through it, and I have to tell you that it is brutally hard on my psyche. There are many days when I just want to give up, check out, and settle for a life of mediocrity.

After all, by any objective measure, I am an utter failure in almost every respect.

I mean, I used to have a successful career in a First World country, a nice cozy apartment near a major American metropolis, lots of cool stuff, and a band of blood brothers with whom I had shed blood, sweat, and hard knocks on the sparring mat.

I lost it all.

I had to move back in with my parents to a Third World country for which I have a thorough dislike. Much of the money that I had worked so hard to build up over 12 years has been spent over the course of just one, on travel and other things. My current job is a joke where promises are made and never fulfilled, and politics runs rampant in a company with less than 50 people, while my previous employer continues to shed people and profits and goes deeper into the shitter every day.

Here I am, a man in my mid-thirties, with no wife, no children, no stability, no home to call my own, a shitty passport from a country where the government is a plague upon its own people and where those same people have to be taught not to shit in the streets.

I repeat: I am, by any rational measure, an almost complete failure.

Yet I do not despair. I pray. I write. I hope. I plan. I build for a future that might never come.

I have more right than most to be consumed by despair. Yet I wake up (almost) every morning happy and grateful for the chance to continue doing what I do.

Here, in five steps, is how you overcome despair. Here is how you win against a world that hates you.

Step 1: Forgiveness

Far too many of us in the Hard Right have succumbed to the tendency to rail at the world in all of its brokenness. Far too few of us ever stop to seek, and much more importantly, give, forgiveness.

Take my own example.

Yeah, my life sucks in a lot of ways. But a big chunk of that is my own fault, and no one else’s. I have done many things wrong in my life and I have to pay the price for those failures. I continue to make mistakes and I will continue to pay for them.

That’s just how it is. You have to learn to forgive others when they do wrong to you, and you have to learn how to forgive yourself too.

Let’s take my living situation back in the old country. My parents grate on my nerves quite a lot of the time. Their patterns and habits and rituals are silly and make no sense to me. They are far more sedentary than I am. But I love them and they love me, and for all that I am not a very good son for them, they still forgive me and accept me whenever I screw up – which, unfortunately, is quite often.

I have a younger sister whom I love very much. I had to work hard to repair and rebuild our relationship this year after many years of refusing to accept her for who she was and is. I said a lot of things to her which hurt her very badly for years, because I saw that she was following the very feminist model that I hate and consider to be evil. I got so caught up in seeing that image that I forgot who she really is underneath. I saw that I was wrong, and I asked her to forgive me. Things have been getting better ever since.

Don’t for one moment think that asking for, and giving, forgiveness is free. Real forgiveness is truly expensive.

Forgiveness is easy to talk about and extremely hard to do. But you have to do it. You have to forgive those who hate you and try to destroy you. It’s not easy, but you must let go of your hatred if you want to make any kind of progress.

And that leads us to the next step:

Step 2: Gratitude

Now that you have forgiven yourself and others, you must learn to be grateful for what you have.

Yeah, the world around you sucks. But if you count up your inventory in life, you will quickly realise that you have far more than you might think.

In my own case, I have a family who loves me. I have a very comfortable home to come back to – even if it’s located in a shithole country. I have the ability to keep myself fit and strong. I am employed, even if I don’t much like my job. I have the opportunity to travel and see the world, if I put in the work and front the cash to do it.

Most importantly, I have the Big Man Upstairs looking out for me. He tells me, in subtle ways that I am unfortunately still rather too dense to see, that He is with me and wants me to lean on Him for support and help. He sent His only Son to die for me – and even though I still routinely repay that incredible immaculate sacrifice with sin and succumb to temptation, I am profoundly grateful that I was given a real second chance to redeem myself.

I will never succeed in redeeming myself. I am not a good man. I do not and cannot pretend to be. But I do try to be good to others.

And that is the entire point of gratitude. Be grateful for what you have, and you will have the mindset necessary to be good to others.

Forgiveness and gratitude are absolutely essential to create the right mindset. If you do not have these things, you will never be ready for the next step – which is:

Step 3: Always Speak the Truth

Here we start getting down to concrete physical actions. The previous two steps were concerned with the Spirit, without which we are merely beasts in the shape of men. Once your Spirit is prepared, your Mind and Body must follow suit.

Now you must learn to speak the truth, whenever and wherever you can.

jg1 raises a lot of the same points that I do in many of my articles, about how any attempts to resist Globohomo will result in immediate excoriation and destruction of your life.

In response, I will simply point to the example of one man: Israel Folau.

This man isn’t a Westerner by any rational measure. He is originally Tongan. He plays one of the most violent sports imaginable.

And he is more of a man than just about any of us – certainly far more of one than I am.

He is a devout Christian who dared to speak the truth. He dared to call out adulterers, homosexuals, fornicators, and other sinners for their sins. He did the one thing that all real sinners truly hate. He called them what they are.

THEY tried to crush him for that. THEY tried to destroy him.

THEY failed.

He has more support than ever. He spoke the truth about the glory of the Lord, about the magnificence of His Truth, and THEY hate him for it – but THEY cannot corrupt him, THEY cannot stop him, and THEY cannot prevent him from making allies.

And therein lies Israel Folau’s lesson for all of us.

If you decide to live on your knees and serve the Lord of Lies, then you’d better bring along your knee-pads, lip-balm, and anal lube, because you’re going to get screwed HARD for the “privilege” of a relatively comfortable existence.

But if you decide instead to die on your feet to serve His glory, and you stand up for what is true, what is right, and what is just, then you will find allies in the most unexpected of places.

How do you do this? You take small, simple steps.

Start up a blog, if you need an outlet to scream at the world. I did. I made allies in the strangest of places, simply because I try to tell the truth as I see it, to the best of my ability. I’m not very good at it, but I persevere nonetheless.

In the process, you will make friends and allies in a virtual world that WILL eventually transform into real-world benefits. You will meet some of these people in real life, and they will help you when you are down – because they know that you will not abandon them in their hour of need.

That is certainly true in my case. My readers are loyal to me because they know damned well that I walk my talk. They know that when they contact me to ask for aid, I provide it – again, not because I am a good person, but because I believe that loyalty must be repaid in kind.

This is how you build allegiances. Speak the truth, and others will come to hear it. Speak the truth, and you will find help when you need it. Speak the truth, and you will triumph against evil in the end.

Now that you have committed to speaking truth in all things – no matter the cost – you must take the next step, which is:

Step 4: Act on the Truth

jg1 brings up several specific examples in his follow-up comment, about how the EEOC will launch a lawsuit against your company, or against you, if you seek to hire only men and only of a certain political ideology.

Every word of that is true. There is no denying it.

That doesn’t mean that you can do nothing about it.

Look, you can sit there and whine about how dangerous it is to exercise preferential hiring and hang out only with those people that you like and trust, or you can do something about it.

I’ll give you a very simple example. I used to be a product controller and systems wizard for a very large global bank – you could not find a more perfect example of a Globohomo-converged shitshow if you tried. I worked in a very technical and challenging function.

Do you know how many times we tried to hire women into those product control roles?

Every single time a job opening came up, we went out and tried to find women who could fill the necessary role.

In 6.5 years at that bank, I saw at least thirty such openings come up, because turnover was high due to shitty systems, long hours, and stupidly officious regulations and managers. Do you know how many women came along to fill them?

THREE.

Do you know how many of them were actually really good?

ONE.

And that, too, only because I personally trained her – and she was gone after six months to another part of the Bank, before she left completely to go to a startup company. (She’s getting married now, actually – she’s about 27, VERY pretty, and very, very smart. Exactly my kind of girl.)

If you are in a part of a company that has too many women – move. Go to a more technically oriented department.

If you are a hiring manager, make the job description so specific and so stringent that only men can fulfill it.

If you are working in a Globohomo corporation, go to a line of work and a field that isn’t heavy on women or affirmative action hires. Anything involving serious technical work is going to be rather too difficult, in terms of raw IQ, for Africans or Indians (except probably Keralites – those guys are smart and hard-working), for instance; you’ll be surrounded mostly by whites and Chinese. If you don’t want to be around the Chinese, who are easily the most racist people on Earth, try working for an energy or mining company – which, not coincidentally, will be very light on women as well, because the ladies don’t particularly like getting their hands dirty, on average.

If you are a hiring manager, take special steps to avoid hiring SJWs. Here’s a really simple example. Let’s say you have an interview candidate who drives in with a car that has one of those idiotic “COEXIST” bumper stickers on it. Be polite, lob lots of softball interview questions at xhim, and then NEXT xher really fast and hard, because that candidate obviously didn’t have the chops to answer the hard technical questions and wasn’t a good fit as a result.

You see what I’m talking about here? You have complete plausible deniability. You did your job, the candidate wasn’t a good fit, time to move on.

Let’s say the EEOC does come knocking. So bloody what? That’s what lawyers are for. Move to a right-to-work state if you must, but whatever you do, DON’T fall for this propaganda that you have no choice.

You always have a choice. Make yours well.

Finally:

Step 5: Escape the Bubble

Whenever someone complains about how hopeless everything is, I get quite annoyed because, in all honesty, it’s a HUGE world out there.

What makes you think that you are stuck forever where you are?

For example: homeschooling is banned in certain parts of the USA and much of Europe. You want to know where it isn’t banned?

Russia.

I ran into a story the other day about a Protestant pastor from the USA, with a big family, who got so sick of what he was seeing in the USA that he upped sticks and moved to Russia and joined the Orthodox Church. Today, Father Joseph and his family live in Rostov-the-Great (Ростов Великий). His children speak Russian and are thoroughly integrated into a society that believes in God and where the Church is more highly respected than the government.

That is not a perfect solution, by any means. I’ve spent a significant amount of time in Russia. It is not the paradise that a lot of Western red-pilled men want to believe it is. There are serious difficulties with living here that would send even the most hardcore red-pilled Westerner running back home with his tail between his legs.

But you don’t have to take such a drastic step. You just have to take some small steps on your own.

So your Church is converged. SO F***ING WHAT?!?! Did you not read the bit in the Scriptures where the Big Cheese Himself said that “wherever two or more are gathered in my name, there I am among them”?

Find some non-cucked, non-converged Christians, as opposed to those Churchian assholes who believe in tolerance und diversity uber alles – those who commit the Sin of Jeroboam – and start your own church in someone’s living room.

How do you suppose that the True Faith grew to greatness? It started with twelve cowardly men who ran away when their Teacher was taken, imprisoned, beaten, flogged, tortured, and killed. The change that overcame them after the death of the Christ was nothing short of a miracle. How do you suppose it happened?

That came about because they saw something incredible, impossible, unbelievable.

And yet, it happened.

Those men became as lions among men. They scattered again, this time to spread the Good News. They died for Our Lord and King – most of them quite horribly. The first Pope died upside down on a cross because he felt he was unworthy to die in the same manner as his – our – Lord. The one that the original 12 Apostles chose among themselves to be their leader and speaker was stoned to death. One was crucified on an X-shaped cross in Greece, another was impaled through his body with a spear and beheaded, one was stabbed with a spear in India, one was impaled with iron hooks through his ankles and hung upside down, and so on and so forth.

These men escaped the bubble. They paid a truly terrible price for doing so. And they laid the groundwork for a faith that conquered the world.

Compared to that, what possible hardship could moving to a different state or a new country pose for you?

Wherever you are, you are not stuck there for good. You have options. You can create networks in the real world. You can change things. You can move.

And no matter where you are, you will find like-minded people – men – who will lift you up and stand by your side and make you better. You just have to look for them.

Friend of the blog and longtime reader Dire Badger mentioned exactly how to go about it in the comments to my previous post on the subject. Heed his words, for he is a military veteran who has been through the exact same Hell that so many MGTOW types scream and cry about, but so few have the courage to face themselves now.

Take Extreme Ownership of Your Life

Ultimately, there is no handy dandy guide book to help you navigate through life. Neither I nor anyone else can give you an exact blueprint for avoiding divorce-rape or staying away from a PoundMeToo moment at the workplace or getting screwed over by some Instawhore on a bar bender. We can only provide suggestions and advice to younger men.

It’s up to you to decide whether or not you will get into the fight.

You can cry about how bad things are and stay curled up in a little ball on the ground. That’s a choice, and it’s yours to make. If that’s your decision, fine – but quit bitching when you get kicked over and over in the nuts by the very system that you chose to run away from.

Losers stay stuck on the ground. Winners take the hits, get back up, and keep fighting.

They may very well still lose everything. Sometimes the fight takes everything a man has, up to and including his very life. Guess what – we’re men. We exist to take risks and build things, not to live crouched in fear and desperation.

You are in charge of your life, and you have to take responsibility for yourself.

Take ownership of your life. Take inventory of everything that is good within it. Forgive others, and yourself, for what you have done wrong. Be grateful for everything that you have, no matter how little that is. Learn to speak the truth, whenever you can, and then act on it.

And move with your life.