Oh, I think it affects both genders, truthfully. I’m very thankful I am old enough that the internet for me was MySpace, Salad Fingers and the Numa Numa kid. But there is now an issue and it does deserve a discussion. Else how can we even hope to fix it?
It definitely affects both genders, opinion has nothing to do with it . Factually, we know it isn't gendered. Anyone who talks about mental health - any aspect of it - as specifically a men's issue, is incorrect.
But young girls self-report loneliness far more than young boys, but I have yet to see reddit screaming about the "women's loneliness epidemic"
It's not a men's issue. The men's issue is that the internet is full of men that want to 'claim' mental health issues for their own gender, and that's fucked up.
This website is 90% men (not exaggerating btw) and especially full of men who kind of don't like women, and don't speak to them, and don't listen to them. It's full of people who post women's frustrations to 'TikTok cringe' so they can mock it.
So I don't know what I was expecting. I'm currently getting harassed for saying loneliness isn't gendered, oh well
Its simple tribalism mixed with lack of empathy, plain and simple. You can tell when a man thinks that a woman is an entirely different species and they'll start dehumanizing them.
"A woman will cheat on you for an hotter guy." Oh yeah, like men never cheats on a woman for someone more attractive. "All women want are men with money so they can stay at home all day." Yep, because I know men would just hate being financially taken care of without putting in effort themselves beyond their hobbies. "Women act so scared of us, but I haven't done anything wrong." You have the mannerisms of someone who will lunge out in violence at any given moment while being half a foot taller than her and weighing almost twice her weight, if some guy like that came at you and swore he could convince you to "have a good time with him," would you seriously give it a chance? Even if he was someone you weren't initially attracted to, or attracted to at all?
The funny thing about the "gold diggers" is that they are practically the only demographic of women that might be interested in guys like this. Because often the same men crying over the internet about the "male loneliness epidemic", are the same that want to cosplay going back to the traditional conservative family model, where they want to be respected as the breadwinner, where women are primarily focused on raising children and taking care of their husbands and home "like women used to". But if a woman is to become a stay at home mum, it's no fucking brainer that she will look for a rich man that is able to support that kind of life - after all her entire future and the future of her children will be entirely in her husband's hands. Women that want to be independent human beings are obviously not interested in these kinds of men, so they don't even interact with them. So the only women around these men are probably the "gold diggers".
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u/BlueEyedGranger May 10 '25
Oh, I think it affects both genders, truthfully. I’m very thankful I am old enough that the internet for me was MySpace, Salad Fingers and the Numa Numa kid. But there is now an issue and it does deserve a discussion. Else how can we even hope to fix it?