• ruuster13@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    “Male loneliness epidemic” = “all lives matter.” Though counterintuitive, they both attempt to bring increased attention to men on an issue that is already universal. There is a loneliness epidemic conversation you could join.

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      3 hours ago

      It’s more like:

      “All loneliness epidemic” == “All lives matter”.

      You don’t like a particular demographic and then you invalidate their particular problems saying that everyone have them.

      It’s exactly the same argumentation. We all know that really all lives matter, the same we know that people is more lonely in general. But the same it is a specific problem with US cops killing black people disproportionately compared with white people there is a problem with men being more lonely in relation with women.

      It doesn’t mean that other genders are not lonely, same that “black lives matter” doesn’t mean that people from other skin colors don’t get killed. But there’s a specifically problem related with gender and race respectively that needs to be addressed.

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      “Male loneliness epidemic” = “all lives matter.”

      I disagree, ALM is a whataboutism meant to distract from the BLM movement. There is no loneliness epidemic movement, so if some men want to get together and discuss how loneliness particularly affects them, good for them.