All MGTOW means is that you should follow your own judgment. No matter what anyone says about what your "duty" is as a man, follow your judgment. Whether society benefits or not, whether others approve or not, follow your judgment. If a man chooses to get legally married, and was following his judgment rather than doing what he is "supposed to do," then he too is going his own way. Get it?

As far as deciding not to get legally married because of the legal quagmire that may await, I personally think that it would make more sense for someone who is set on getting married to do so in a non-legal way. Simply have a ceremony and call it a marriage -- but sign no marriage license (and also live in a jurisdiction that will not declare you married). That way, the marriage is a choice -- each day -- rather than a constraining force. Isn't that why people say they get married anyway, for the love? Why then should any joker of a judge have any say over that union?

MGTOW are closely aligned with the marriage strike, but that doesn't make the two phenomena the same. The MGTOW phenomenon simply exhorts men to make rational choices with their lives, taking responsibility for their own fate (and thus taking control of it as well). It is telling that men, in their increasing preference toward making rational choices about their lives, are rejecting legal marriage. That is a rational decision. Would you demand that they discard reason?