• ruuster13@lemmy.zip
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    7 days ago

    There is no male loneliness epidemic; there is a loneliness epidemic. They have been talking about it since at least 2020 and it predates the pandemic. Anyone calling it a male loneliness epidemic is absolutely engagement farming. The entire manosphere is a rage-bait-engagement-farming scam.

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      7 days ago

      Not just engagement. Back when it was just a loneliness epidemic, there were talks of maybe bringing back third places, or changing society to help. Then it became a male epidemic, and suddenly it was someone else’s problem, it’s an individual issue, no need to make a cause of it.

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      7 days ago

      There’s a general loneliness epidemic, but there’s a difference between men and women.

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      6 days ago

      it is particularly male though because studies show older men don’t have friends

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        5 days ago

        no men have friends.

        and women have friends, but hate all of them and talk about how awful they are.

        which once is better off?

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          5 days ago

          i mean the multiple studies concluded women and that men need t o allowed to share emotions in American society

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            3 days ago

            studies tell us obesity is bad for us.

            and we keep getting fatter.

            almost as if people don’t listen to studies, and act on impulse and emotion…

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      6 days ago

      They were talking about it way before the epidemic. I remember at least as far back as middle Obama presidency that there was a show talking with one of his campaigners and they brought up the statistics on the number of people that would claim to have X amount of “close friends” declining.

      There is a definite difference in the man/woman divide though on those numbers.

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        6 days ago

        It’s useful to talk about how the loneliness epidemic affects men and women differently. But when someone talks about the “male” loneliness epidemic and all it’s statistics about virginity, you know their bigger problem is how they spend their time online.

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          6 days ago

          Oh, agreed. Anyone who brings virginity into the context of adults having fewer and fewer relationships that matter is either an incel or a troll.