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Megan Marshack
Megan Ruth Marshack (1953-2024) was an American journalist and press aide to Nelson Rockefeller, with him when he died of a heart attack on January 26, 1979; her delayed 911 call and silence fueled decades of speculation.
Megan Phelps-Roper
Megan Phelps-Roper (born 1986), granddaughter of Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps, tweeted for the Topeka church before leaving it in November 2012 with sister Grace; author of Unfollow, TED speaker, producer of The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling podcast.
Megxit
Megxit is the informal blend of Meghan and exit, by analogy with Brexit, for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's January 2020 decision to step back as senior British royals, effective March 31, 2020, with HRH styles dropped and £2.4 million repaid.
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus is John Gray's 1992 HarperCollins relationship guide claiming inborn male-female communication differences. It sold over 6.5 million hardcovers by 1998, was a NYT bestseller 140 weeks, and drew scientific criticism.
Men Going Their Own Way
Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW) is an online male separatist movement in the manosphere whose members reject relationships with women, blame feminism, and favor voluntary celibacy, unlike incels.
Men's rights movement
The men's rights movement (MRM) is an anti-feminist social movement arguing men face legal and social disadvantages, especially in family law. It split from 1970s men's liberation, overlaps with the fathers' rights movement and the manosphere, and includes A Voice For Men, listed by the SPLC as a male supremacist hate group in 2018.
Ménage à trois
Ménage à trois (French, "household of three"): a domestic arrangement in which three people, usually a couple plus a lover, share a household and a romantic or sexual relationship; used in English since 1853, distinct from a one-time threesome.
Mercy
Mercy: compassionate forbearance or relief toward someone within one's power to punish or abandon, expressed through the works of mercy, zakat, clemency, and organizations from the Misericordie (1244) to the Sisters of Mercy and modern humanitarian agencies.
Mésalliance
Mésalliance (mesalliance, misalliance): a marriage with a person of lower social position, borrowed into English in 1782 from French; historically the violation of European nobility marriage rules, exemplified by morganatic marriages such as Franz Ferdinand's.
MeToo movement
MeToo movement: anti-sexual-harassment campaign founded as 'me too.' by Tarana Burke in 2006; viral in October 2017 after Alyssa Milano's tweet following Weinstein allegations; millions of posts, global spread, and workplace and legal changes.
Metrosexual
Metrosexual: label for a heterosexual, usually urban man highly interested in fashion, grooming, and appearance. Coined by Mark Simpson in The Independent (1994); marketed in the 2000s around figures like David Beckham; now obsolete.
Mewar family dispute
Mewar family dispute: inheritance conflict in the erstwhile royal family of Mewar, Udaipur, begun by Mahendra Singh's 1983 partition suit, decided in 2020, stayed in 2022, and now contested over Arvind Singh's 2025 will between Lakshyaraj Singh Mewar and his sisters.
Mexican Student Movement of 1968
The Mexican Student Movement of 1968 was a wave of student protest in Mexico City against President Díaz Ordaz's government, ending with the army firing on a rally in Tlatelolco on October 2.
Michael Glatze
Michael Glatze, American former gay-rights activist and founding editor of Young Gay America magazine, who renounced homosexuality in 2007, became an evangelical pastor in Wyoming, married Rebekah, and was portrayed by James Franco in I Am Michael (2015).
Michael Schwerner
Michael Henry "Mickey" Schwerner, New York CORE organizer and project director for Mississippi's 4th District, murdered with James Chaney and Andrew Goodman by Klansmen on June 21, 1964 during Freedom Summer; led to the 1967 Price convictions and Killen's 2005 manslaughter conviction.
Michael X
Michael X, born Michael de Freitas, was a Trinidad-born civil rights activist, the most publicized figure of Britain's Black Power movement, hanged in Trinidad in 1975 for murder.
Microaggression
Microaggression: term coined by Chester Pierce (1970) and revived by Derald Wing Sue (2007) for brief, often unintentional slights communicating hostile messages toward marginalized groups, with three subtypes (microassault, microinsult, microinvalidation) and an active scientific debate.
Mike Barnicle
Mike Barnicle is an American journalist and political commentator who wrote over 4,000 columns for The Boston Globe. He resigned in 1998.
Mike Cernovich
Mike Cernovich (born 1977, Kewanee, Illinois) is an American lawyer, author, and pro-Trump internet personality behind Crime and Federalism, Danger and Play, Gorilla Mindset, and films Silenced and Hoaxed, known for Gamergate involvement, Pizzagate promotion, and the 2017 Susan Rice unmasking story.
Mike Ma
Mike Ma is the pen name of Mike Mahoney, American far-right ecofascist writer, author of Harassment Architecture and Gothic Violence and founder of the Pine Tree Party movement.
Mike Rothschild
Mike Rothschild is an American journalist and author specializing in conspiracy theories, known for The Storm Is Upon Us (2021) on QAnon and Jewish Space Lasers (2023); no relation to the banking family.
Mildred and Richard Loving
Mildred and Richard Loving, a Black and Native American woman and a white man, married in Washington, D.C. in 1958, were exiled from Virginia, and won Loving v. Virginia (1967), which struck down U.S. bans on interracial marriage.
MILF
MILF, vulgar slang acronym for "Mother I'd Like to Fuck", describes an attractive middle-aged woman or mother; documented in 1992 slang research and popularized by the 1999 film American Pie, it became a major pornography category.
Million Man March
The Million Man March, a mass gathering of African American men on Washington's National Mall on October 16, 1995, called by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan; theme of atonement and responsibility, disputed attendance of 400,000 to over 1 million.
Mimi Alford
Mimi Alford, born Marion "Mimi" Beardsley, is the American author of Once Upon a Secret (2012), a No. 1 New York Times bestseller describing her 1962-1963 affair with President John F. Kennedy while a nineteen-year-old White House press office intern.
Ministry of Women and Child Development
Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD), Government of India; apex ministry for women and children, separate from 30 January 2006; three scheme verticals Mission Shakti, Saksham Anganwadi & Poshan 2.0, Mission Vatsalya; 2025-26 budget Rs 26,890 crore.
Misandry
Misandry is hatred, dislike, or mistrust of men, coined 1875–80 on the model of misogyny. The article covers its definition, the empirical "misandry myth" research on feminists' attitudes, manosphere usage, ironic feminist usage, and the structural-power symmetry debate.
Miscegenation
Miscegenation: pejorative term for interracial marriage and sex, coined in an 1863 hoax pamphlet from Latin miscere and genus; also the label for US anti-miscegenation laws struck down by Loving v. Virginia in 1967.
Misinformation about the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
Misinformation about the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season: false claims around Hurricanes Helene and Milton, including weather-modification conspiracies, FEMA diversion rumors, and political amplification, debunked by NOAA, PolitiFact, and FactCheck.org.
Misinformation about violence by transgender people
Misinformation about violence by transgender people: false claims of rising transgender mass shooters, contradicted by Gun Violence Archive data (five such shootings since 2013) and NCVS victimization data showing transgender people are over four times more likely to be victims.