When I put "Male Loneliness Epidemic" in quotes, it's not because I don't believe that loneliness is not a real issue. It's that it is not a gendered issue. Loneliness is an issue we all face and should be addressed collectively. - ThreadSky

askaubry.com • 90 days ago

When I put "Male Loneliness Epidemic" in quotes, it's not because I don't believe that loneliness is not a real issue. It's that it is not a gendered issue.

Loneliness is an issue we all face and should be addressed collectively.

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i-am-j.ag•90 days ago

100% agreed. I've been working for years volunteering with SeekHealing, a Western NC based non-profit focused on the loneliness epidemic, regionally and through an online program. It's really life-changing and it's 100% free.

The online calendar is here: https://www.seekhealing.org/locations/online

askaubry.com•90 days ago

This is amazing

knautschzone.bsky.social•90 days ago

📌

zoombox350.bsky.social•90 days ago

I’m not even sure loneliness is the right word. Loneliness implies a yearning for some kind of mutual soul connection. Male incels mostly want a bangmaid with no thoughts or opinions of her own to service them.

fffffork.bsky.social•90 days ago

It’s the right word for those actually talking about loneliness. It’s a euphemism for incels expecting a bangmaid.

I think when we’re talking about loneliness, we should be very clear what we are discussing, since they have been somewhat successful in piggybacking on legitimate loneliness discourse

zoombox350.bsky.social•90 days ago

It’s annoying that they’ve hijacked the concept. There’s genuine discussion to be had about the difficulties of finding community and connections for men, but they’ve obscured it under an ink cloud of entitlement.

askaubry.com•90 days ago

Link to full article: https://www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/usable-knowledge/24/10/what-causing-our-epidemic-loneliness-and-how-can-we-fix-it

180423ashy.bsky.social•90 days ago

male loneliness would be solved if they learned not to be misogynists

francinehibiscus.bsky.social•90 days ago

As an Old I will say that we are deeply lonely but it's so entrenched that it's background noise

yourspeedyattorney.bsky.social•90 days ago

Agree. Also, I’m perfectly content with being “lonely.” I’ll always see the world as being full of life, instead of lifeless, dead, and sexless.

farshnuke.bsky.social•90 days ago

Yep

grungehamster.bsky.social•90 days ago

Speaking of Harvard, saw a "evidence of the Male Loneliness Epidemic that 69 percent of Harvard's new enrollees are virgins!" take when a quick look at the data shows that male students are 60% more likely to have had sex than female students (which sex doesn't solve loneliness by a longshot.)

askaubry.com•90 days ago

But but according to the incels that flood my DMs it's all because they are touch starved and women are bitches for putting them in the friend zone

centorior.bsky.social•90 days ago

I only blame myself for being put in friend zones again and again.

askaubry.com•90 days ago

Friend zone does not exist.

centorior.bsky.social•90 days ago

What do you mean? I've asked a few crushes out over the years. They'd say no, and depending on how intense my feelings were we'd be friends instead (otherwise I remove myself), is that not what the friend zone typically refers to?

maxmoriarty3.bsky.social•90 days ago

https://www.who.int/teams/social-determinants-of-health/demographic-change-and-healthy-ageing/social-isolation-and-loneliness

imaginaryerika.bsky.social•90 days ago

But, you see, women who won’t settle DESERVE to be lonely vs. those poor, poor men are being punished by evil feminists.

centorior.bsky.social•90 days ago

I wonder if this relates to suicide rates, which in the UK is much higher in men. I am about to have no one to celebrate Christmas with again (to a point where I get accused of not wanting to celebrate it to start with).

I'm on track to become part of the statistics anyway. Feel free to disagree.

minordamage.bsky.social•90 days ago

Wow.
I feel even Worse now!

grizzabel.bsky.social•90 days ago

exactly, it’s not a male loneliness crisis, it’s an everyone loneliness crisis and a male entitlement crisis

joekauffmanvo.bsky.social•90 days ago

It's hard for me to feel sorry for them when it's self-imposed.

hezicka.bsky.social•90 days ago

mectorhcpooky.bsky.social•90 days ago

So money truly does make you happy

fun22fly.bsky.social•90 days ago

True.. I was lonely when I was young because I did not realize the importance of my actual circle of friends.. Anything more just means putting Yourself out there.. and paying attention to the outcome..

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