Where is this coming from? I’m currently texting with someone who needs to read the entire thread.
It’s from Bluesky. Here’s the link, but you need to be logged in to read it:
https://bsky.app/profile/moiradonegan.bsky.social/post/3lofgjsxjuc2e
Thank you! When I’m back on my desktop I’ll do that.
(showed up when I checked my Bluesky account to see your link)
WTAF!?! Men who complain about “loneliness” (who aren’t on a solo space mission for months or years) need to grow the fuck up!
It appears to be part of a very targeted social media campaign to me tbh.
It doesn’t need to make sense to anyone outside the target demographic.
Though I do think people are feeling more alienated right now under this kind of meta environment both online and in the US generally (maybe the world?).
I have a lot to say about “male loneliness” and anti-social behavior in a broader sense, but i feel like that would end up into being some kind of thesis or TED talk
People get lonely. Men do, women do, enbies do, and I personally think it can deserve sympathy. The nasty thing here is gendering it into “male loneliness” so that men are the only one to care about and it becomes a weapon against everyone else.
I’m reminded that the term “incel” was made up by a woman for people who lacked the social skills to find the relationships they want, in hopes of helping one another, before it was completely hijacked by angry misogynists. So much for all the others! Now they’re losers who can’t get a date and they get to be stigmatized by comparison with demanding awful men.
This is what my husband believes. The idea of masculinity is rotten all the way through. Because it isn’t actually about being a man
Elaborating, she continues: ‘People say it to me, “And since you’re a feminist…” Erm, no. Not really. I love men.
Or maybe it’s about being half of one (woman weak/men strong, women emotional/men logical, women talkative/men taciturn, women socially oriented/men independent, etc.).
I apologize for making that sweeping statement without attaching the context. It was in an image instead of text and I got lazy.
In the context, it refers to the inherently lazy complaint of “lonely” men who can’t be bothered to put in the most basic work to build relationships, and instead want to be provided with companionship.