Comment on What's the deal with male loneliness?

• Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In sociology, the third place refers to the social surroundings that are separate from the two usual social environments of home and the workplace. Examples of third places include churches, cafes, bars, clubs, libraries, gyms, bookstores, hackerspaces, stoops, parks, theaters, among others

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place

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• kandykarter@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Places that aren’t home or work. Social places, like bars.

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• Dogiedog64@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The colloquial “third place” is, as I understand it, a (usually) public place OUTSIDE of Home or Work where people can meet, hangout, play, or just exist without the expectation of spending money or being productive in some way. Examples would be Parks, Libraries, old-timey Public Houses and Cafes, Playgrounds, Forests and Wilderness within walking distance, and more.

  Car culture killed a lot of that by removing the ability to reasonably walk places outside major metro areas, as businesses relocated to cities, and because they straight up increased the fatality rate for walking substantially. Internet Culture also killed it since you can just talk to your buddies through the Demon Rectangle instead of meeting IRL.

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  • bradd@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Automotibles are not car culture. If anything car culter turns a garage into a third place, by your definition, and brings other people out of their houses and out of the workplace, to meet. Car culture is more an adaptation people have made due to the advent of the automotible and the problems you attribute to “car culture”. Everything has expanded and is cut up by streets and shit because automotibles are useful… as a side effect has made it harder to have a third place, as you have pointed out, and so people who engage in car culture actually overcome the challenge by integrating automotibles into their culture, they persevere.

    I would actually make the same argument for internet culture. The internet isn’t internet culture, and if anything Internet culture has allowed people to express themselves through the intenet, embracing it and integrating it into their lives rather than just living beside it. For people people who consider themselves part of internet culture, the internet is their third place where they play.

    With that said, it’s still an interesting idea. I do think we pay a high price for the luxuries that we have today and it’s not well understood. Having infrastructure designed around automotibles, for example, fucking sucks.

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