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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    1 day ago

    Everybody understands that men have issues. The problem is that the people promoting this use it as a stalking horse to oppose feminism.

    Because that’s what they believe. The male loneliness epidemic, to them is explained by female autonomy and civil rights. Most of them won’t come right out and say this, so they bitch about suicide rates and the draft instead.

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      You’re conflating things here. Terminally-online incels are often racist, would you say racism is nothing but a construct of the incel social media?

      I do agree that it gets weaponized by grifters and misinterpreted by many more but you are contributing to the problem by acting like it’s an idea spawned from bitter dudes online or that it’s an idea inseparable from misogyny.