Something. Something. Male Friendships. Discuss. The common consensus is that the male population of Earth is experiencing an epidemic of loneliness, which leads to climbing rates of depression and suicide. We both have lots of friends, including being friends with each other, so today we’re going to explain how to be friends with other men, how to properly hug a man, and how to, when they’re least expecting it, knock the phone out of their hand, and then, when they scramble after their phone, to knock their hat off.
Music pick of the week:
Robot – Kiss – Alive!
Stevil – Pile – Magic Isn’t Real
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I think about going down hard on the floor EVERY time I put my boxers on.. its kinda terrifying and hilarious at the same time. You know what they say, it’s all ___ts and giggles until someone breaks a hip. Been listening for about a month and enjoy you two so much. So chill, so real. How do I throw some monies at you? Thank you for providing the fresh diversions.
Male loneliness is also a big thing with Gen Z. There is an entire group of kids that doesn’t know how to communicate. They’ve grown up behind screens. Then you have influencers telling them that they have to be Alphas and a long list of misogynist horseshit including Incel culture at the far end of it. Pretty damn sad.
I think you guys may have missed the mark insofar as which subset of the population the ‘male
loneliness/manosphere primarily targets. It’s not our fathers generation and their relationships outside of the primary family unit. I’m frankly surprised you haven’t been slapped across the face with it like all the rest if us have.
It is, at least at the outset, specific to teen males up through males in their thirties. Those of whom perceive few job options, a world that ‘frowns’ on them being male, a world in which they may spend the better part of their life online, and where human relationships/connections become less and less common. Enter the manosphere, where influencers tell them that they aren’t the problem, the world is, and that any potential mates should be viewed as adversaries, that woman cause their loneliness because of the plethora of options afforded to them
simply by virtue of being women. That the ‘chads’ of the world make their lives impossible, a tinder dating world where in their minds they don’t stand a chance.
They end up on the continuum existing somewhere between misogynistic gym bro always on the scam, to championing incel culture and the nihilism that naturally follows.
As a gen x’r, it’s hard to take it seriously as a crisis, but for those in it, apparently it is very much so.
Robot, given that he has sons in the general range, as do i, would be an interesting test case as to how his kids perceive and process what is a real phenomenon in their cohort.
Thing is, one didn’t skate or listen to punk or ride a bike in any capacity that wasn’t Cat 1 superstar with the notion that everyone would worship us, obviously the opposite happened.
But in doing so one developed a resilience in the world, and a cohort of like minded individuals that simply didn’t care about the march of the popular, even if we were only barely slightly off center.
That was before the internet though, and the ability to have para-social relationships with the least healthy of strangers, and no actual friends to pull you back from
the edge.
Sad and seemingly solution-less.