Note: In case anyone here isn't familiar with chess, you could look up the rules online if you want, but here's the main thing you need to know:
1. The king is the most important piece. The game is about protecting your king. If your king gets trapped, you lose.
2. The queen is the most powerful piece. If you lose your queen, but your opponent doesn't, you're almost 100 percent guaranteed to lose. If you both lose your queens, the balance of power is maintained, and you still have a chance to win.
3. The rooks (there are two per side) are powerful. If both sides have lost their queen, but one side has his rooks and the other doesn't, the side with rooks will probably win.
Imagine this scenario. It's a chess tournament with a men's team and a woman's. To compensate for the evil patriarchy and men having super privilege over women, the following rules will be in place:
1. All men will play without a queen, but all women will have a queen, as usual.
2. All men must play without rooks, but all women get the normal two rooks.
3. If a man says anything horribly misogynistic such as, "This game is rigged" or "this isn't a fair game," the woman gets an extra queen.
4. If a man wins the game, he gets to have sex with one of the women there, though he doesn't get to choose her; she chooses him.
5. If a man loses the game, he's expected to "be a good friend" to the woman, and to spend a lot of money on her while she fucks other men.
6. If some dude sits down who's a super hot Chad, the women can, if she wants, call off the match and just fuck him. She fucks him in front of all the people there, and if any man expresses disgust, he's branded "loser," "limp dick," "fragile male," among other insults.
So they play games under the assumption that this setup is totally fair, and if any man complains, he's a weakling and a whiner, in other words, a "fragile male." Any time a man loses a game, he's mocked, laughed at, and called stupid. If a man attempts to explain that the game is rigged against men, and that a man's defeat in this setup is nearly inevitable, that he could only win if his opponent were a totally incompetent player, he's shamed with language like "small penis," "fragile male," and is told he's mansplaining.
Most of the men play under these conditions, losing match after match, hoping that next time it will be better. However, a group of men, a sizable minority, start walking away from the game. They don't make any speeches about how unjust this tournament is. They just politely excuse themselves and walk away, leaving the building. The women explain to the men still remaining that these "MGTOW" men are just a bunch of misogynists, and that real men will all "man up" and continue playing. If any man dares question the rule they've set up, he's mocked, and everyone bitches that he's mansplaining.
However, every time they have a tournament like this one, a sizable portion of men, get up, push their chair in, and politely excuse themselves, including some Chads and some wealthy men. It starts to become more difficult for these women to find men to exploit. They hold a tournament titled, "Where have all the good men gone?" Men who play are flattered that they're the real men, but the unreasonable, unfair, and absurd rules are kept in place." Still more men politely excuse themselves and leave.
Some journalists interview these men as they're on their way out, and most simply say something like, "This just isn't worth it" and "It's rigged, so why would I play?", and "I can find something better in life." After that, the journalist goes on a long rant about how misogynistic these men's comments supposedly were.
These journalists start a campaign titled, "Just man up and play." Some are shamed into continuing to play, but many more just politely excuse themselves. The number of men players keeps dwindling. One feminist player loudly claims that she's "marrying herself." She plays chess against herself, and cheating, and then proclaims it as a great victory and dresses up in a bridal gown and expects everyone there to give her gifts.
Their negative man-bashing campaign keeps some men there as permanent players, but these are men with zero self esteem. When they're interviewed, there's no rational thought whatsoever, and instead they just regurgitate feminist talking points like, "We're here to play a totally fair game that helps to tear down the evil patriarchy." One journalist goes out and finds men who have walked away so that she can interview them. One MGTOW says, "It's a huge relief. If I don't want to play, I don't have to. Instead of wasting my time with that garbage, I've taken up guitar building and have gotten quite good at it." The journalist responds politely, but then when she runs the segment, she opines, "Did you hear the undercurrent of misogyny when he talked about building guitars? It's shocking."
One female journalist respond opines, "You know, they may have a point. It's their lives. If they want to spend it how they want to, it's their right." This journalist is promptly ostracized, accused of "internalized misogyny."
One MGTOW proclaims, "I just go fishing now. It's fun." He's answered with, "Horrible, evil misogyny. Catching fish from a lake symbolizes the cruel patriarchy and capturing women like we're objects."
The man retorts with, "Come on, man, I'm just fishing! There's no evil, hidden meaning." He's branded as the "fisherman misogynist."
Every year, more and more men realize how crooked and wrong their pseudo-chess tournament is, and many men walk away from it. And every year, the feminists scream at the men for quitting, calling them insults like "coward," "woman hater," "rape apologist," and many more. But it's not enough. The men just keep quitting, and no amount of insults or questions like, "Where have all the good men gone" can change that.