How often have you heard, ‘male loneliness is one of the great social problems of our time’? It’s apparently behind the rightward shift all over the world.

And I’m so sick of people on here dismissing the issue. If it were treated with consideration, do you not think the world would be a better place?

We need to figure out who this male is. How is this guy creating so much havoc? SOMEONE suck his goddamn dick FFS. I’m hetero but I volunteer if he’s so inclined. I’ll suck him, I’ll fuck him, I’ll do anything. You all can keep complaining about the patriarchy but I’m a solutions first guy.

We can all relate to feeling lonely. This man wields an incomprehensible amount of power over the social fabric of human society, but he’s still human, and he deserves to know community, to feel love. Literally the only person who stands between capitalism and communism, and ‘leftists’ want to grandstand about being too good for him… this is the problem with the modern left.

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[–] 54 points 1 day ago (2 children)

On a serious note, male loneliness is bs because it is codeword for "I want a prostitute who is 24x7 available and also is my domestic maid" loneliness is experienced by literally everyone but no one talks about loneliness experienced by gay men, lesbian women, trans people, it is always the cis straight male.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    male loneliness is bs because it is codeword for "I want a prostitute who is 24x7 available and also is my domestic maid"

    In the nicest way possible, no it isn't. Roughly 10-20% of the U$ population has zero close friends, slightly favoring women (I didn't find data on non-binary people, sorry!). Most reporting I can find (feel free to contradict with your own data) focuses on the lack of male-male friendships and the causes thereof, while the lack of dating or romantic experience is used as an example of the consequences. As the rates have been correlated for quite a while, I doubt gender-specific loneliness has fully specific causes that are not shared.

    CW: Self Harm/ Misogynist violenceReporting favors cis men both because media focuses on male problems, but also because they are much more likely to kill or harm themselves and others.

    Also, shockingly to hopefully no one here, poverty and disability correlate heavily with loneliness.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Right, there's a loneliness epidemic. The capitalists identify a thing they are doing to us, divide it along lines of gender, and sell it back to us, obscuring the class component.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 day ago

    They destroyed and enclosed all the third spaces, all of civil society and all social relations that are not commercial in nature and now they have the audacity to blame feminists or cancel culture or whatever for the harm this is causing people.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    I don't have any data to really contradict you, I am mainly talking about the rhetoric around it because major use of "male loneliness epidemic" as a phrase has been at least in my view, as a way to create and more traditionalist society where cis het men have access to sex and emotional labour of one person, their wife, at all times. I have never seen anywhere that people are talking about creating door to services like dropping pamphlets for neighbourhood game nights or local club activity, loneliness is a problem, gendering the rhetoric of loneliness (not saying that statistics are a lie but that calling the problem of loneliness as a particularly men's issue is bad faith) has been only to say "bring back the traditional system" I see people mainstream leftist podcasts talking about "back in the day the left over men who couldn't have a family were sent for exploration then they were sent for war, now we don't know what to do with them". There's never a conservation that maybe the focus on family alone and marriage alone as a source of companionship has been the reason for all the loneliness in the first place.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Even if you are right, the only thing you're arguing is about wrong solutions being attempted/wanted for the problem. The problem is still real and the people suffering deserve empathy.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 day ago

    I never said that people struggling don't deserve empathy, I am saying that gendering an issue like that which is almost universal and is more pervasive along the lines like poverty, disability, neurodivergence should be dealt without gendering it in this way.

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  • [–] [S] 39 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Listen. Motherfucker. The guy is in this very thread.I am this fucking close. I swear to fucking god, if you prevent me from having communism I will fucking end you. I need you on your best behavior. Just shut the fuck up for one fucking second.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    That's what I want, end me please I beg you, end me!!!!

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  • [–] [S] 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Stop it. I’m not ending you. We’ll have falgsc, it’ll be great. Just need you to pipe down for a sec. Please.

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