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From what I'm told, privilege is only a white male issue. Maybe some males feel like they are being made a convenient target by the sh!t stirrers
Also, what is lonely? Is that a bad thing? Personally, I like it when people leave me alone (especially the shadow banning mods)
As another comment above pointed out. With roughly equal number of men and women, I would naively think that if men are lonely, so are women.
Is loneliness specific to male actually documented?
Second link is that one:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37563853/
> Our analyses show that women were more lonely than men also in adjusted analyses.
I don’t have the background to judge that study and I take social science studies with a huge grain of salt. For now, I will just stick to “I don’t know” then.
Two problems can be real while having different solutions proposed for them.
“AI companion” sounds like a weird solution but it sounds less weird specifically for men. For cultural or whatever reasons.