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The Rise of Lonely, Single Men
- BMc2020 4y agoHow can men reap the benefit of the algorithms? Level up your mental health game. That means getting into some individual therapy to address your skills gap. It means valuing your own internal world and respecting your ideas enough to communicate them effectively. It means seeing intimacy, romance, and emotional connection as worthy of your time and effort. Ultimately, we have an opportunity to revolutionize romantic relationships and establish new healthy norms starting with a first date. It’s likely that some of these romances will be transformative and healing, disrupting generational trauma, and establishing a fresh culture of admiration and validation. Men have a key role in this transformation but only if they go all-in. It’s going to take that kind of commitment to themselves, to their own mental health, to the kind of love they want to generate in this world. Will we step up?
- hirundo 4y agoFor every additional lonely single man there's another lonely single woman, more or less. It doesn't seem to be a problem that affects women less than men. So why the asymmetrical focus on men? How is this a male skills deficit rather than a human skills deficit? Are female dating skills assumed, or less important, or less relevent for some reason? It's like a story about the terrible burden placed on men by inflation. OK, but what's gender specific about that?
- TheLoafOfBread 4y agoMen are supposed to search and hunt. Men are supposed to find a woman. Men are supposed to win her heart over.