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So Gen-Z incel infuencer brought the male loneliness epidemic concept, I understand that for many people loneliness isn't a blessing, and know that it feel better to sleep in the arm of someone loving you than alone.

However, if I remember my English class, single women were mostly banned from immigrating to the US, and men were the one travelling to the far-west, so I expect a pretty bad gender-ratio, with many single men How was it managed at the time ? Did it led to societal scale problem ?

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[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (6 children)

So i had to look up what Far-West era was. It is 1800-1910. Basicallly when the Us was conquering the continent from the east coast to the west coast.

Since the Male Lonliness epidemic is nothing but a construct of incel social media, the incels of that era did the same thing that incels do now. They tweeted about it.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 10 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

Ironically, dismissing it as just an incel thing is EXACTLY the problem. It's not about women at all, it's about friendship. And the social norm predates the internet, social media just exacerbated it (and for many women, too)

It can be hard for guys to make friends when they've lived their whole life in a "just man up" environment. I didn't grow up in one of those and I still struggle to be vulnerable around my friends. I'm not an incel, it was just never taught to me so I had to figure it out myself.

The point of talking about the male loneliness epidemic is not to complain but to retire that type of male culture. Encourage men to be there for each other, put themselves out there, meet people and make friends.

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip -5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The so called male loneliness epidemic isn’t a thing. It is a social media construct that has been weaponized by Incels to justify thier shitty world views.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

Ok you seem like an expert on this so I'll just trust you that there is not an aspect of popular male culture that makes many men lonely. It's just social media incels.

The average adult man definitely socializes just as much as the average man. You've found that old guys have as many friends as old women in your research, right? There haven't been studies about this going back decades or anything - it's all incels on social media. My bad.

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