How about: Men are experiencing a loneliness epidemic. They are replacing actual friendships with the illusion that they are mates with the people who do bantz on their podcasts/some famous person who liked one of their tweets in 2015. It makes them very vulnerable to online radicalisation.
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I think as a culture we (probably Anglophone we) absolutely do not take the crisis in masculinity and in men’s mental health seriously enough.
Meanwhile women in relationships with men have a “play” deficit as we work, do caring roles and take on an extra shift as the only person our male partners can talk to about their feelings.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fh4dvx
On algorithms. I have a YouTube account just for Street Fighter. I literally watched no videos on the channel related to anything other than the game. After less a week, I started getting recommended videos about how women were ruining gaming. WTF?
Where are the menfluencers leading the charge? Perhaps the Prince of Wales and Gareth Southgate can team up for a kind of TRC for men.