Comment on Anon questions the epidemic

ruuster13@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Aqarius@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    who would want to help men? that’s gay.

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• zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • ruuster13@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If only I knew earlier that the males are all suffering with virginity. I could be out there solving this thing one by one (I’m gay).

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    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      i don’t think the virgins are on grindr

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      • ruuster13@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I know. They’re on 4chan.

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• baines@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • baines@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        studies tell us obesity is bad for us.

        and we keep getting fatter.

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• imadethis@fedinsfw.app ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • ruuster13@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • imadethis@fedinsfw.app ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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