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The future is bright for single men in 2023
I think living as a single modern man today is slightly harder than I anticipated. For starters, when I looked up the title on google.
“The future looks bright for men.”
Here are some of the titles for articles on the first page.
- “The future looks bleak for the single man.”
- More Men Than Women Are Now Single. It’s Not a Good Sign
- For men and boys, the future looks bleak
- Single men are ‘the loneliest they’ve been in generations,’ a study says
For the record, I’m not angry at these titles. I get it; it’s far more financially beneficial to shit on men rather than help men; heaven forbid they write articles about the increase of homeless men, the increase in male suicide, and how most men have virtually zero emotional support systems. I also am not too bothered cause a lot of these articles that I referenced are written by women. Like most other things in life, it’s effortless to have an opinion on a lived experience you’ll never have. I think the only thing that I find perplexing is straight women taking in glee in some of these single men’s apparent loneliness.
But let’s go back to the majority of people who are writing these articles, they don’t have lived experience.