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[–] XM34@feddit.org 81 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Oh wow, another meme completely disregarding a problem many are struggeling with. But don't worry guys and gals, it's okay because it's making fun of mens' suffering. And men can't be discriminated against.

On another note, has anyone figured out yet, why men are never emotionally available? It truly is a mystery 🤔

/s in case you can't tell.

[–] Slowter1134@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago (18 children)

Silly men just need to understand that saying "I'm lonely" and "women belong in the kitchen" are equivalent. So don't you dare ever talk or reach out if you're lonely.

It's a real shame that male loneliness is so quickly dismissed because it would be a great starting point to begin talking about how traditional male friendships tend to keep each other at a distance, and maybe come up with ways to bridge the gap so existing friendships can become deeper.

Instead it feels like the conversation just gets to this point where we all collectively shrug and say, "shame" and never really talk about it more than this.

[–] FatTony@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (25 children)

"I'm lonely."

"Well, you probably deserve it then."

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[–] richardisaguy@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago (5 children)

there is a ~~male~~ loneliness epidemic

FTFY

[–] naught@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I think it's phrased like this because it's less acceptable for men to express feelings like sadness or loneliness. men and boys who are lonely and alienated can more easily fall down the Andrew Tate/4Chan/Jordan Peterson/blackpill pipeline which yields violent extremist behavior. Obviously it's not only men

[–] straightjorkin@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Women don't have the same issue because it's socially acceptable for them to have deep emotional connections with their friends, where as men are mocked for being gay if they open up to their buddies about any kind of difficult emotion.

[–] naught@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

I have had the good fortune of being borderline gay with all my friends for my whole life. I wish it upon everyone

[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yes, it's because despite the problem being the same for everybody, the "treatment" has to be very different. So it's better if you break it down into two different epidemics.

And one gets more attention because every single well known and applied procedure to fight the epidemics don't work for them.

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[–] Tedesche@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago (22 children)

Yeah, that’s not at all what the male loneliness thing is about at all. Was the point of your meme to make fun of how ignorant people are about this particular issue for men or were you trying to suggest the issue is invalid and the result of misogynistic assholes? Because if it’s the latter I think you just demonstrated your own ignorance and should probably spend some time trying to empathize more with men and educate yourself.

[–] AlDente@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Par for the course for cm0002 to drop a devisive clickbait "meme" for engagement and disappear. I understand we want Lemmy to grow, but is this actually the kind of content we want churned out?

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[–] softcat@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 week ago (9 children)
[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (3 children)

There are multiple ways to get to the loneliness stage. The meme identifies one way that is self inflicted which starts with misogyny and spirals from there.

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[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago

Yeah, it’s more than just incels suffering.

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[–] hmonkey@lemy.lol 21 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I doubt the first 3 statements are the same person as the fourth in most cases

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[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The people speaking about male loneliness epidemics aren't the incels right? I think trying to understand the problems related to masculinity in society is exactly the opposite, trying to combat incels and the like. It has nothing to do with blaming women (at least in my experience)

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I know this guy who is absolutely ridiculous about this.

On one hand, he can't stand women's groups, gets upset about women's sports, can't stop dismissing anything that isn't solely masculine like yoga, dance, and even rages on women artists and musicians.

On the other hand, has BEGGED OUT LOUD to people (I'm not even his friend) to get him connected with "chicks".

I have no idea how to tell this guy he's a miserable hateful fuck who will die alone because of his own personality.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 10 points 1 week ago

Pretty funny that lots of now “feminine” activities like horse riding, yoga and dance were originally very masculine and women got into them when men moved onto to other crap like cars and whipping each other with towels in the locker room.

[–] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Death of third places and the tech takeover of social interaction is why men and women seem to hate each other now. We don't have much opportunity to meet romantically in person and the online space pits extremists against each other until all the regular people believe that's just the way it is in real life too.

Can't overlook that women being, for the most part, economically equal for the first time ever gives them more opportunity to choose as well.

[–] user607674@lemm.ee 13 points 1 week ago (6 children)

The comments on this one really highlights Lemmy's demographics. You can take the men out of reddit but you can't take the reddit out of men lmao

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[–] Cocopanda@futurology.today 12 points 1 week ago

I got overweight from the loss of my legs from a spinal injury. My fiancé left me and I haven’t held a serious relationship since. I am a supporter of all rights. So not all of us that are dateless. Are hateful misogynists. Some of us just had a bad deal delt to us.

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