The Male Mother Need

Written by Kyojiro Kagenuma for www.goingyourownway.com

As a Herbivore man that took the Red Pill, I dived deep into the Rabbit Hole and discovered many hard but undeniable truths. Some truths are harder to swallow but those are the ones that truly liberate and expand the mind.

This is exactly what happened to the world when Galileo Galilei courageously proclaimed that earth was in fact, not the center of the universe to the Church in 1615. He was persecuted by the Roman Inquisition for his thoughts on heliocentrism but he would later achieve the acclaimed title of being the Father of Modern Science.

The progress we make as thinking men is one where we continually challenge the status quo and discover truths regardless of the overwhelming public opinion. In my humble opinion, there is one truth that is the bitterest pill to swallow but it is the foundation that is needed first and foremost, in order to reject and retaliate against gynocentrism and misandry all at once.

My aim is to give a compelling argument for the need to recognize and address the topic. If it sparks dissent, debate and discussion that would be welcomed and I urge people to speak their mind and provide convincing arguments for their points so that we may all learn and better ourselves. 

Defining the Male Mother Need

I would like to start that this notion is not new; many psychologist have postulated that men often project to their partners the idea of them being the mother-figure in the relationship. I will state here that Male Mother Need is not an Oedipus complex; men do not see their partners as mother-figures. I posit that what men truly seek is not another mother but an ideal woman and depending on how far a man allows this ideal to manifest and fester in his thoughts and psyche, different kinds of perversion may result.

Barbarossaa, in his video “Male Mother Need and Civilizational Draw Stifle Male Individualism” defines Male Mother Need as

"The propensity for men to believe that there exist his own personal angelic, warm and serenic soul mate and is the cause of much male suffering …"

(Bar Bar, 2012)

What men really seek is their own personal angelic, warm and serenic soul mate. Someone who understands you; who comforts you warmly after a bad day; who lifts your spirit with soft, gentle smiles and kind words of encouragement; who whispers to you how important you are to her, that her life is better because of you and that she is grateful to have you in her life; who acknowledges the arduous work you do and rewards you and only you with her mind, body and soul.

Yeah, ‘she’ doesn't exist. Herbivore Men simply have an awesome imagination.

All living beings have a biological imperative to reproduce but as humans we have the ability and capacity to reason and rationalize our behavior and our surroundings and it is this unhealthy idealization of women that brought about the misery that has afflicted us today.

Whether this ‘ideal’ is natured or nurtured is irrelevant; most men yearn for a mate that matches his own fantasy and he meanders through his life ever searching for that which only exists in his mind. Like it or not, we are biologically predisposed to seek out a partner who we foolishly convince ourselves could fulfill our individual idealistic notion of comfort and affection.

And until each man confronts this within him, he is in danger of being repeatedly manipulated and deceived by women and the Gynocracy.

Now, I detest ruminating in psychology because much of it is susceptible to anecdotal bias and selfish agendas that are frequently presented as facts using observational studies instead of actual evidence from clinical studies. However, it would be remiss of me to not at least present a thoughtful argument on how Male Mother Need develops and perverted.

The Curious Case of Bernard Boursicot

Bernard Boursicot is a French Diplomat who in 1964 engaged in a 18 year long romantic and sexual relationship with a Chinese Peking Opera singer named Shi Pei Pu. In 1965, Shi Pei Pu later claimed to be pregnant and even produced a baby boy named Shi Du Du which Boursicot believed to be his son. In those 18 years, Boursicot passed at least 150 classified documents to Shi until both of them were finally caught by the French government and were charged with espionage in 1983 (Wadler, J 1993). 

What is so fascinating about this story is that Shi Pei Pu was in fact, absolutely a man.  

And in fact Boursicot first met Shi Pei Pu as a man but Shi regaled him with the story of the butterfly,

Then, one evening, Shi told his new friend about The Story of the Butterfly, the opera in which he claimed to have performed one of his most famous roles. It concerns a beautiful girl who is unable to attend one of the imperial schools because of her sex; so she swaps clothes with her brother, and goes to school in his place. Shi then claimed that he had in fact been born a girl, but his mother had passed him off as a boy because her husband had only two daughters and wished for a son; he had lived a masculine life ever since.

(The Telegraph, 2009)

Shi fed Boursicot the lie but Boursicot ate that lie wanting to believe it. The boy Shi Du Du was bought from a doctor in Xinjiang province of China. So engrossed was Boursicot in his fantasy that when the French government confronted him with the evidence of Shi Pei Pu’s manhood, he attempted suicide. The story became a sensation in France not least because Boursicot had frequent sexual encounters with Shi across 18 years believing that Shi was a woman.

Boursicot was perhaps naïve, having been a virgin when he met Shi Pei Pu but he was a French Diplomat hence he was neither insane nor stupid. Boursicot exemplifies the extent a man allows himself to be subjected to his own fantasy, to justify and rationalize his belief that in his world his ideal woman exist which in the end only brought him humiliation and ruin. 

Boursicot allowed his Male Mother Need consume him. 

The Pussy Pass

In a more relevant example, we can see the manifestation of this Male Mother Need particularly in two groups of men that are of interest to us; White Knights and Manginae. Both these men are in fact, slaves to their Male Mother Need and project that need onto the various women they hold dear.

The White Knight, armed with his code of chivalry and gallantry, rides to the rescue of his Fair Maidens whom he sees as pure, wholesome, sinless and righteous. (The Society of Phineas, 2012). White Knights are defenders of women's honour. The Mangina is the wretched servant of the Evil Queen, so enthralled by her beauty and power that he ignores her wickedness and agrees with her every decree. Manginae are collaborators who intellectually support Feminism (Fidelbogen, 2012).

The White Knight's ideal woman is the Maiden while Mangina's ideal woman is the Queen, regardless whether either or both of them are fair or evil. I would even go so far to say that every man on the Blue Pill has a Male Mother Need that is embedded deep within them wanting to believe their own women – their mothers, sisters, friends and lovers – are the personification of classic Disney Princesses whilst ignoring that they may be or are in fact, Wicked Witches and Evil Stepmothers.

It is because of the Male Mother Need that such men can accept simplistic and naïve excuses such as ‘Not All Women Are Like That’ and ‘That’s Just the Way Women are.’ And women have played men based on this need. Claiming the ever helpless victim, they thrived on the White Knight’s chivalry and the Mangina’s sympathy to rally to their side even when obvious wrongs are perpetrated; a phenomenon known as the Pussy Pass or the dismissive attitude towards female dysfunction (Bar Bar, 2011).

The Male Mother Need in these men actually encourages the hypoagency of the Fair Maiden and rewards the solipsism of the Evil Queen. How else do we explain the double standard that when a 27 year old man has sex with a 14 year old girl, he is a rapist and receives 11 years imprisonment but when Debra Lafave, a 27 year old woman has sex with a 14 year old boy, she is merely labelled a sex offender and the prosecution dismissed all charges against her (Goldberg, S 2006).  

How do we explain Rape Shield Laws that protect the false-rape accuser who convicts men based solely on her testimony such as the case of Crystal Mangum and the Dukes Lacrosse Team in 2006? How do we explain the continuing demonization of the falsely accused by members of the public when their innocence had been proven? (Applebome, P 2007) Why no one thought that perhaps Crystal Mangum was a liar who would later went on to murder her boyfriend? (Goldstein, S 2013).

Green Grass

“Attachment is in many ways comparable to addiction, a compulsive dependency on external objects or experiences to manufacture an illusion of wholeness. Unfortunately, like other addictions, attachment becomes more intense over time.”

Mingyur Rinpoche

For the Herbivore Men, they recognize that the attachment to the ideal women fantasy brought on by man’s inherent Male Mother Need is an addiction. They have seen vagina worshippers and pussy beggars who are no better than addicts, appeasing women for the uncertain and meagre reward of sex to their own self-detriment that may result in work-related deaths and responsibility-driven suicides.

By being aware and mindful of this inherent need as an apparent addiction, Herbivore Men go through a process of gradual cessation by severing the connection between his happiness and his carnal pleasures. I think it is worth nothing that this is neither a spiritual nor a religious process but rather a strict mental exercise that requires discipline and logic.

The effect of this cessation, when the need for sex is removed, is that Herbivore Men can truly evaluate the actual value of women base on their intellect, character and behavior without being clouded by chivalry, sympathy or fornication. As women's distasteful attributes become more apparent through fresh insight, it further affirms the Herbivore Man’s resolve to nullify his Male Mother Need and motivates him to reject women and their malfunction. 

Women then would ceased to have control over the Herbivore Man. 

Red Pills

“Women have picked up on the fact that men will accept any form of dysfunctional courtship from women and that has created an environment where females have completely removed the possibility of female perversion from the general consensus.”

(Bar Bar 2011)

The MGTOWs perspective is to continually disclose women’s malfunction and to denigrate them for their perversion. MGTOW presents to the public that women are capable of and are acting out terrible deeds. The goal is to prove to the rest of men that the idea of the warm, angelic and serenic soul mate is a fiction and an affliction. As further evidence of women’s malfunction and dysfunction surfaces and given the spotlight, it will encourage more men to break free from their own Male Mother Need.

News such as the one In Texas, where 25 year old Melinda Lynn Muniz was arrested for killing her fiancée’s 2 year old daughter (Kemp, J 2014). Emma Wilson of England who was unanimously found guilty of murdering her 11 month old son (BBC, 2014). Julie Corey of Massachusetts was found guilty of first degree murder for strangling and beating her pregnant friend to death, cutting the baby out of the womb and claiming it as her own (Nye, J 2014).

With stories like the above, the public will see the true nature of females and men will wake up and wise up to all their ugliness. These examples of female dysfunction need to be made known and widespread to help other men shatter the ideal women fantasy.

No longer will women get by from a Pussy Pass.

Conclusion

Gentlemen, the source of gynocentrism and misandry among men is the Male Mother Need. We need to address it if we hope to bring about the downfall of Feminism and the Gynocracy. By learning to detach ourselves from our own Male Mother Need we are then able to expeditiously identify female dysfunctional behavior while retaining our wits. By keeping abreast of current news and affairs and then continually and vocally exposing women’s malfunction we can condemn and penalize their perverse behavior as well as combating the armies of Gynocracy from their excuses and deflections.

Reference:

Applebome, P 2007,  After Duke Prosecution..., The New York Times, April 15 2007 

Bar Bar, 2011,  Dismissive Male Attitude Towards Female Dysfunction, Youtube, August 11, 2011

Bar Bar, 2012, Male Mother Need and Civilizational Draw... – Youtube Jan 12, 2012 

BBC, 2014, Callum Wilson Murder: Mother Emma Wilson Jailed For Life,  BBC Jan 24, 2014
Fidelbogen, 2012, The Notorious ‘M’ Word; Mangina! – Counter-Feminist, June 18, 2012

Goldberg, S 2006, Too Pretty For Prison, The Guardian, March 24, 2006 
Goldstein, S 2013, Crystal Mangum…, New York Daily News, Nov 22, 2013
Kemp, J 2014, Texas woman killed fiancee’s toddler...,  The New York Daily News, Jan 29 2014

Nye, J 2014, Woman WhoKilled Her Pregnant Friend…, The Daily Mail Feb 13, 2014 

The Society of Phineas, 2012, Defining White Knights and Manginas,  Dec 1, 2012

The Telegraph, 2009, Shi Pei Pu - The Telegraph Jul 3, 2009

Wadler, J 1993, The True Story of M. Butterfly..., The New York Times, Aug 15, 1993 

Grass Fed 1: An Introduction to Herbivore Men

First posted on MGTOW Red Pill Forum Feb 16 2014
Reposted at Going Your Own Way Forum Feb 20 2014

Let me begin by saying that I am not an expert whatsoever about Herbivore Culture. That said, I doubt there is anyone even in Japan who can give you an answer that can accurately portray Herbivore culture that is not biased by the feminine narrative. Also, although I did link some articles, this isn't an academic work or research, rather an opinion piece hence why I decided to put this in Anecdotal section. 

That’s What She Said

The term Soushoku-kei Danshi a.k.a. “Herbivore Boys” is coined by Maki Fukusawa in 2007 and became a buzzword by 2009/2010. Fukusawa is a woman and her observations will obviously be skewed by the feminine perspective. Soon, another woman by the name of Megumi Ushikubo, the president of the market firm Infinity, authored “The Herbivores Ladylike Men are Changing Japan” using pseudo-science to come up with her conclusions.

To be fair, a man named Masahiro Morioka, a professor from Osaka Prefecture University, made the term popular in his book "Love Lessons for the Herbivore Boys". The fact remains that the ones that made a fuss about this are the women, that is.

Herbivore men don’t talk about being Herbivore with other men; we just are and the women didn't like it.

The Japanese Beta Male 

What most Japanese traditional men are, are workaholic corporate salary-men. These men often work long hours and give all of their income to their wives – every last Yen. The wives in turn would give the husband allowances and keep the rest. Yes, this is a thing in Japan. (JapanTalk, 2012)

What these men truly are, are Japanese Beta Males being bitch-slapped by their wives. Anyone with half a brain could see that this is not a life and is the primary motivating factor behind the Herbivore Culture as well as the reason it has gained so much ground in Japan. Hence, the Herbivore Men is a counterculture to Nikushoku Danshi or Carnivore Men which is the traditional male role, specifically on matters of love, employment and consumption.  

Lesser known but just as true is that Herbivore Culture had existed long before the term was coined. It started back in the early 90’s as a reaction towards Japan economic downturn. As Japan’s economy further descends, it accelerated the growth of Herbivore Culture. The Herbivore men are typically 35 years of age or younger and this demographic corresponds to the period of Japan’s economic crisis; it’s a culture 20 years in the making, there just wasn't a name for it back then. 

The Herbivore Men is a culture that rejects traditional Japanese way of life in favour of individual happiness instead. 

Media Hype

What the media tend to report about Herbivore Men (that is commonly written by women) is that they are

• Afraid of women and commitment – some writers went as far as to state that Herbivore men are afraid to hurt and get hurt emotionally. 
• Frugal and non-ambitious – Herbivore men only spend money for themselves and aren't looking to advance themselves in society. 
• Effeminate, Fashion and Beauty Conscious – the media loves to focus on these metrosexual men who spend their money on beauty products and fashion. 
• Abstaining from sex – either being celibate or indifferent to sex. 

All I can do when I read articles that writes this is to facepalm myself. While the above criteria are true, it is very much misleading. Herbivore men are not identified by all 4 criteria; there are some Herbivore men that fit some of the criterion but no Herbivore man fit them. To think that Herbivore Men spend money on their hair, make up, fashion while at the same time saying that they are frugal when clearly beauty and fashion are luxury expenses, is ludicrous. 

The 70% of the men that are within the Herbivore demographic (20 – 35 y/o) whom identify themselves as Herbivore, include (but not limited to) NEETs (Not Employed, in Education or Training), and Freeters (men who are not employed or are not fully employed) which amounts to a sum of 2.5 million people who are further divided into different sub-cultures which consist of manga, video games, maid cafes and good-ole Japanese Adult Video (porn to you). 

NEETs, Freeters are included in the wider spectrum of other Herbivore men who do have fulltime employment and are doing well. NEETs and Freeters tend to be frugal and pretty much into the Otaku (Nerd) culture while at the same time being Soushoku-kei Danshi (Herbivore). And then there are the effeminate Herbivore Men who created this new trend of men who are into grooming and fashion and this is the Herbivore men that the media identifies readily and hyped. 

Another thing that the media likes to hype is the bruised pride and dignity of the Herbivore Men. Since the traditionally, women do not refuse the advances of Japanese man, the fact that modern Japanese women can and do reject Herbivore men at the point where it hurts their pride so badly that they simply cower, I find that also ludicrous especially when these findings were presented by Oricon (music statistic company of all things) and other companies using pseudo-science. 

Because the truth is, there are Herbivore Men who do date women; but many Herbivore men don't care. And although there are Herbivore men who are indeed shy and passive, it certainly doesn't explain why other Herbivore Men are celibate, asexual and/or indifferent. 

Masahiro Moriaka himself only ascribe the Herbivore Men label to the effeminate young Japanese men but he also stated that he believed the herbivorization of Japanese men began after the Second World War as Japan entered a time of military peace (Morioka, M 2013). However, Maki Fukusawa who first coined the term ascribe the term to all Japanese men who holds the same attitude towards women, giving the term a broader and more accurate definition in this commentators opinion.

The important thing to note is that, the Herbivore culture is more inclusive and diverse than what the media portrays. 

Japanese Men are Going Their Own Way

If you could ask every Herbivore Man, one common element that they all share is their attitude towards women, hence consequently marriage and relationships. The Carnivore Man is the symbol of traditional masculine role, i.e. a Japanese man is expected to support his wife and family without complaint even though he feels discontent and unhappy. The Carnivore Man’s social standing is defined by him having wealth and family, even if in pursuit of this makes him miserable. 

It also doesn't help that the main criticism that all the articles regarding Herbivore Man in Japan and around the world, come from the grievances of women who – if you read the subtext carefully – want their man to pamper them. The women want their man in their traditional roles as salary men who slaves at work all day and gives all his money to his wife; a life that Herbivore Men refuse to participate. 

References:

Moriaka, M 2013, Phenomenological Study of Herbivore Men, The Review of Life Studies, vol 4, Septermber 2013

Good reads on Herbivore Men
Japan Counterculture: The Soushoku Danshi – Shave Magazine

Japan’s Herbivore Men – Reuters

Who are Japan’s Grass-Eaters –  Discover Japan

Read with caution

The Herbivore’s Dilemma – Slate Magazine

Blurring the Boundaries – Japan Times  

Grass Fed 2: Herbivore Men and Japan’s Troubling Economy

writer: Kyojiro Kagenuma, editor: BeijaFlor

First posted at MGTOW Red Pill Forum on Feb 18 2014

Reposted at Going Your Own Way Forum on Feb 20 2014 

In this article, I want to share the significant impact of the Herbivore Culture on Japan’s economy.

“Won’t Someone Think of the Children?”

In retrospect, it’s quite amazing how the Herbivore Culture could slip through societal awareness for so long without attracting attention. The first indicator were the Parasite Singles phenomenon back in 2000 but it was largely ignored, then the rise of the Otaku Culture between 2001 and 2007 (Azuma, H 2009) and Japan's high suicide rates; these were all indicator of a larger problem that society did not see.

The reason why the last 5 years there has been significant interest in Herbivore Men is the primary concern of Japan’s Birth Rate Crisis. Japan could not ignore this. To give you an idea, a local school in Nanmoku, 85 miles from Tokyo, had 1,250 first graders 50 years ago. In 2012, it had only 37.

Where are the children? There are no children.

2010 began what has become the dramatic effect of the Herbivore culture which saw the population shrinking with negative percentages in annual population growth. With the birth rate of 1.39, Japan will see a future with more elderly unable to retire, a national debt of 1.1 trillion dollars that they cannot hope to pay without a much needed labor force, and the government not able to support Japan’s social welfare.

As more and more Herbivore men “Go Galt” and simply refuse to marry and father children, what many observers predict is a financial catastrophe of a colossal scale. Japan is of course worried, and people inside and outside of government are proposing plans to encourage more men and women to marry and have children.

One example is from Morinaga Tokuro, an economic analyst who in 2012 proposed an absurd Handsome Tax saying “If we impose a handsome tax on men who look good to correct the injustice only slightly, then it will become easier for ugly men to find love, and the number of people getting married will increase.” Under this proposal, the wealthy and handsome Herbivore Man will be taxed 80%. (Beth, 2011 Handsome Tax)

He was not joking; the Japanese are just that quirky.

Death and Taxes

I doubt very much any further tax imposed on the Herbivore men would have any effect. A married salaryman with an annual base salary of 10 million Yen (approximately US$100,000) would receive and allowance of 30,000 to 40,000 Yen or $300 - 400 monthly from his wife. 

The average Herbivore man can earn 6 million Yen annually; after income tax, this would yield 3.6 million Yen or $36,000 net, which amounts to 300,000 Yen or $3000 monthly. Deduct monthly cost of living at the outskirts of Tokyo, which is 120,000 Yen, the Herbivore Man will still have a disposable income of 180,000 Yen, or $1800 - about 5 times more disposable income than if he was married. (Note: These figures are approximate. Since May 2013 the exchange rate has fluctuated around US$1 = 100 Yen.)

If we consider the Handsome Tax of a Herbivore man who is earning 10 million annually and is taxed 80%, with other factors constant, his monthly disposable income would be 46,000 Yen or $451; still higher than the allowance a married salaryman would be likely to get from his wife. I must clarify that the Japanese Government gives many incentives to married couples with children and I gave an overly simplified example. However, it is worthwhile to see that even with taxes imposed on wealthy and handsome Herbivore men, it will likely not have any impact considering the heavy cost of having children that includes food, day care, school tuition, housing, car and insurance.

Add to this, the rising trend of suicide in men and work-related deaths due to depression, job loss and fatigue. In 2009, 32,845 Japanese killed themselves, 70% of them male (Brown,AM 2010). Japan has an average suicide rate of 30,0000 people annually for 14 years straight until 2012 with an average of 10,000 deaths due to overwork (Demetriou, D 2009). The National Police Agency attributed 1 in 4 suicides as financially motivated where borrowers of financial loan kill themselves so that their loan can be paid off with their life insurance.  Japan’s suicide rate is one of the highest in the world according to the World Health Organization, with no indication of decline.

Men would rather die than make their friends and families financial slaves. Herbivore men would rather live alone than be enslaved in this fashion.

The Downward Spiral

Understandably, Morinaga Tokuro’s proposal seemed desperate. Well, Japan is beginning to feel desperate. I read an article in the New York Times (Harney,A 2012) where the writer, Alexandra Harney proposed,

• subsidizing public day care in an attempt to make child care more affordable
• employ younger, more skilled labor and discourage overtime in favor of family time
• employ more women, and give incentives for women to return to work after childbirth

Wow, talk about the fastest way to ruin a country. Her suggestion is echoed by many writers of her kind in the western world. Instead of arguing her suggestion, I would like to point out that this writer absolutely did not address the actual problem i.e. young men and women are not having babies, there are no new families because they don’t want to make a family and, this is the most important part, Japanese women don’t want to work.

In a 2011 article in  Time Magazine, Sylvia Ann Hewlett said that data from the Center of Work-Life Policy showed that Japanese women with college degrees are 74% more likely to voluntarily quit their job, and that 63% of those who quit cite that “their career was not satisfying enough.” (Hewlett, SA 2011). A government survey by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry in 2013 showed that 1 in 3 of women wants to settle down and just remain a housewife (JapanToday2011).

Both Hewlett and Harney argued that Japanese women are being sidelined because of societal pressure to be stay at home mothers, stated that day care is expensive, and advocated flexible work hours – all to accommodate women, willfully ignoring that the many of young Japanese women do not want children and simply do not wish to work.

If the Japanese government continues to push pro-women policies in the workforce while disregarding the birth rate crisis and Japan’s aging and shrinking tax base, Japan would likely plunge further into debt, the cost of living would rise and people would have to work longer hours to try to earn more, resulting an increase in fatigue, stress, mental problems and work-related suicide.

Only this time, it’s the women in the workforce who are going to kill themselves, or at least kill each other.  I’m not saying that’s a good thing though.

Made In Japan

How would this affect Herbivore Men? Nothing that wouldn’t affect everyone else twofold.

Herbivore men are generally cautious and wary of their future and the economy, looking toward preservation and sustainability rather than consumption and conquest. Necessity is the mother of invention and in Japan’s worsening economy, the preservation and sustainability of Herbivore Men, which is in direct contrast to the Japanese women’s indulgence and decadence provide that necessity in which ingenuity and innovation to thrive.

So far, the pro-women policies spouted by Shinzo Abe do not seem to adversely affect Herbivore lifestyle. In fact, though Japan's marketplace has traditionally catered to women, the Herbivore men are becoming a growing consumer market in Japan with many products that are specifically designed for them. If this trend continues, then we should see a shift in purchasing power from women to men.

Bear with me on this; what this would do is create new products and services that are uniquely male-oriented, just as video games had been uniquely male for the best part of 30 years. We can see today how video games have grown from a geek culture to global culture, all thanks to Pong, Pac Man and everyone with a penis. The Otaku culture, another pre-dominantly male space and industry, is estimated to have market size of 2 trillion Yen in 2005 (Web Japan 2005).

Men created an industry when no industry existed before.

Sony, JVC, Casio, Toyota, Honda, Canon, Ricoh, Nintendo, Olympus, Panasonic, Seiko; the list just goes on and on of the many things Japanese made which are held with great esteem once or still. It was the Japanese automotive, electric and electronic products that made them rise from a nuclear testing ground to the third largest economy in the world paved by men’s ingenuity and innovation.

What Shinzo Abe, and other vagina worshippers like him fail to see, is that the solution does not lie with pandering to women but instead the government and the economy needs to encourage men. What the Japanese have forgotten is that at the end of the Second World War right up to Japan’s economic boom in the 1980’s, what made Japan so prosperous and advance is their inclination towards ingenuity and innovation carried out by the men of Japan.

Back then, when you had something that said “Made in Japan”, you knew it was the best. Here’s hoping that our brothers in Japan find the same ingenuity and innovation to bring them out of economic abyss.

References

Azuma, H 2009 Otaku Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press.

Further Readings

Japan'sSexual Apathy is Endangering the Global Economy

Japan'sYoung Men Seek New Path

Costof Living in Tokyo

WhySalarymen Get an Allowance From Their Wives

Grass Fed 3: Green Grass and Red Pills

by Kyojiro Kagenuma, edited by: BeijaFlor
written for Going Your Own Way forum, Feb 25, 2014

In this article, I try to examine the differences and similarities between Herbivore Men and Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW). I am indebted to MGTOW having given me perspective and insight that is invaluable for all men. Vice versa, I believe the Herbivore culture can contribute an understanding and applications that would be beneficial for men.  

Intellect and Industry

If there is one thing that can be said about MGTOW, it is how intelligently the movement conducts and exhibits itself. MGTOW has only been around 5 years, but it has garnered tremendous amount of support and followers from America, Europe and certain parts of Asia due to the many talented MGTOW speakers using the internet as a platform to articulate, with fervor, elegance, and piercing candor, the perils of modern women and society with illuminating insight and electrifying exegesis.

Anyone who has taken the Red Pill is compelled to be honest with themselves and to raise their intellect, not least due to MGTOW's expansive vocabulary; they also need to relinquish their long-standing ignorance regarding Feminism’s destructiveness on modern society, and begin to defend, retaliate and change public perception. The core of MGTOW, as a movement, is their collective wisdom and how this wisdom is dispensed on a national and international scale.

Herbivore men, unfortunately, have not yet developed this intellect – the hazard of “eating grass” all your life. However, what they lack in intellect, they make up for it with imagination. What the Herbivore men have done successfully in the last 20 years, has been creating male spaces. It seems mind-boggling upon reflection; the goal of MGTOW is to help men navigate life against the gauntlet of Feminism, yet Herbivore men’s adaptation to it has been almost instinctive. It’s uncanny.

Weaning off women, opting out of the marriage institution and “Going Galt”, Herbivore men as a collective have joined together across different socio-economic demographics to claim their own territory. Where there was no place for them they created one; diverse markets of Otaku culture that consists of - among others - manga, anime, video games, toys, figurines, porn and now even fashion and beauty. The Herbivore market has reached a size of at least 809.3 billion Yen, roughly US$ 8 billion, as of 2011 (Yano Research 2011) 

So pervasive is the Otaku culture that it now spawns a myriad of followers around the world. With its own set of predominantly-male industries, Otaku Culture not only provides that much needed outlet for men, but it also preserves monetary resources that might otherwise fall in the hands of decadent and predatory women. Japanese men have more money and they are spending it for themselves, slowly eroding Japanese women’s purchasing power, putting pressure on large corporations as well as the government to take notice and respond.

MGTOW are statesmen and scholars while Herbivore Men are artists and entrepreneurs. Both are needed to build and propel a civilization and both are equally important in our struggle against Feminism. Substantial public opinion is needed to procure public support to instigate social change, while strong purchasing power is required to exert economic leverage to dictate public (and especially corporate) interests. Effectively, the West is fighting Feminism from the front, while the East is fighting them from within.  

Green Grass

What some of the Herbivore Men are doing – those that inclined towards fashion, beauty as well as exhibiting effeminate nature – is redefining the male identity. A man’s identity is reflected by his role in society and these new generation of young Japanese men is breaking the old mold of traditional male role. Decisions such as ‘Going Dutch’ on a date and being unassertive and indifferent towards romances, is their way of no longer adhering to the role of the family protector and provider.

The reaction towards Herbivore men has been mixed. Masahiro Moriaka, a professor of philosophy at Osaka Prefecture University stated that the Feminists in Japan are looking at Herbivore men with distrust and apathy but Japanese women in general are curious about the phenomenon. He further explained that some Feminists view the Herbivore men as another trap made by the male power and an attempt to conceal (male) domestic violence (Moriaka, M 2013).

LOL?

Herbivore Men are known with their gentleness towards women; hence this statement from Feminists can only be described as delusional. However, acting on this delusion, feminists have in the past 2 years dialled up their victim rhetoric, citing that “reports of domestic violence in Japan for the first six months of 2012 have increased by a significant 46.3% over the same period from the year before” (Westlake, A 2012) . This may seem a great deal and you might assume a crisis but consider that the same article also states that reported cases of DV only amounted to 2,016.

Only 2,016

To be honest, this figure is insignificant. The National Police Agency said that 2012 recorded 1,382,154 criminal cases, half what the statistic was in 2002 and 6.7% lower from 2011 (JapanToday 2013). Also bear in mind that murders and attempted murders were 1,030 cases – the lowest on record since the Second World War - and the year before, the number of suicides were 30,000, plus 10,000 deaths that were work-related  (Fukada, S 2012). Feminists would have you believe that there is an epidemic of wife-beating in Japan when it isn’t even 1% of Japan’s crime rate in 2012; it’s only 0.1%.

Feminists claim that Japan is violent when in reality; Japan is the safest country in the world (The Japan Times, 2014)

Inadvertently or otherwise, Herbivore men are displaying examples of qualities inherent in man such as self-assuredness, tolerance, patience, creativity and perseverance. I suspect that the Feminists in Japan are nervous because Herbivore men are not exhibiting the male violence that they often spout. As Herbivore men become the majority, more women will realize the many allegations that Feminists made were lies and people will come to grasp what Feminism truly is; a mental disease.  

Hence by redefining what it means to be a man as well as creating and participating in markets and industries that are androcentric, Herbivore men are succeeding in changing society’s perception as well as creating large pockets of male spaces in a gynocentric ecosystem; a system within a system, disparate but not separate.

Red Pills

Meanwhile, Feminism in the west has successfully built a Gynocratic empire that takes advantage of male disposability and misandry to continually erode the value of men. Sullying their dignity made men rely upon the approval of women. Women have manipulated men using guilt and shaming rhetoric to vitiate his esteem rendering him submissive while broken promises of the reward of sex ensured that he remained compliant. Feminism convinced men to be subjugated by women.

What MGTOW is doing, is to reclaim the Male Worth. The Male Worth is the understanding that men are not disposable and that men are and is able to do immense good. It is a man’s own realization of his own autonomy, of his limitless potential and of his enduring determination to strive, pursue and achieve greatness that is to his benefit and those within his dominion. 

This greatness could be in terms of, but not limited to; athletic, academic, economic, scientific or even artistic success. Men have pursued every field with passion and vigor, and we continually triumphed. For the first time, in a long time, men who took the Red Pill and jumped into the rabbit hole, realized that they did not need women to be successful, to be good or to be a man.

The MGTOW assault however, is a pincer movement. While reclaiming Male Worth, MGTOW exposes the core nature of women, i.e. their selfishness, childishness, greed, laziness, manipulation and deception thus effectively diminishing women’s inflated and nominal sense of self-worth down to its real, actual value which is sex and when sex is no longer part of the equation, women have no leverage.

Women are losing power over men and that is scaring the shit out of them.  

So afraid are the womenfolk, that a google search of “MGTOW 2013” offered 156,000 results and the first page is filled with vitriol, hate and condemnation. They have flagged the MGTOW videos on Youtube repeatedly to stifle the MGTOW voice but all they have accomplished is aiding and abetting the spread of the Red Pill. Another google search for “MGTOW 2014” yielded 96,500 results in a mere two months into the year, which shows that people are talking about MGTOW.

Make no mistake gentlemen, MGTOW is growing. You are heard and the world is responding.

Through MGTOWs relentless and tireless labor, more men are ‘waking up’ and ‘wising up’ to women and their wrongdoing. Even some of the women are siding with men (not that it’s needed, but let’s not be finicky). And granted MGTOW is young compared to the Men’s Rights Movement (MRM); but what MRM could not do for tens of years, MGTOW have managed to do it in 5 through a critical analysis of women and applying an appropriate counter-force in response.

By returning men their dignity and revealing the lie of the female worth, MGTOW is demolishing the Gynocracy and the pedestal that society holds for women. By reclaiming our Male Worth, men are being liberated from the system, and fighting back. Bit by bit, MGTOW is garnering public support to fight against the insidious tyranny of Feminism.

Male Worth and Male Identity

What can be learned from both Herbivore men and MGTOW is that there is a need to redefine our role and to appreciate our value in the postmodern world. This does not mean becoming effeminate but it does mean that we move away from the protector and provider role and continue to explore unconventional ideas in an uninhibited intellectual and creative environment.

We should consider developing and participating in new and existing industries and markets that are catered to us and uniquely us. From something as simple as creating an anti-feminism meme to spread on social networks, or sharing Red Pill experiences in various forums, to delving into animation, comics, music, literature and online gaming, MGTOW can use these markets as avenues to further spread the Red Pill.

We also should deliberate on different habits, manners and behaviors in dealing with women that are uniquely MGTOW or Herbivore. I believe the fusion of MGTOW’s intellectual honesty and inspired candor with Herbivore Men’s quiet confidence and creative independence warrants serious thought. Imagine creating a sci-fi graphic novel or manga using ideas from Stardusk and words from Barbarossaa. 

Lastly we also should appreciate our maleworthiness in fields of athletic, academic, economic, civic, scientific and artistic as well as share this success with fellow MGTOWs and Herbivore men. Doing this promotes camaraderie among men in a world full of misandry and also sends a chilling message to Feminism and the Gynocracy. It shows the world that we chose to opt out of the system and lead a MGTOW or Herbivore lifestyle; and we are fitter, happier and more productive because of it.

As more people see how content and fulfilled we are with being MGTOW and Herbivore, the sooner they’ll realize that the life they are living is a sham. Let’s make 2014 a great year to be MGTOW and Herbivore Men.

Referrences:

Morioka, Masahiro, 2013 A Phenomenological Study of Herbivore Men, The Review of Life Studies, Vol. 4, September 2013

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