• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Dudes don’t have friends.

    I’ve got plenty of dude friends. And they’ve got friends of their own.

    Clubs are full of dudes. Rec leagues are full of dudes. Schools are full of dudes. Bunch of dudes on my street hang out regularly We’re all hanging out and making friends with one another.

    It’s real, it’s happening.

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      2 days ago

      But theres still a sizeable pprtion of men dying from deaths of despair ESPECIALLY in middle age. Why is that?

      Have you ever stopped to ask these specific men why they have such shit quality of life that theyd rather kill themselves with food and substances? It probanly has somethjng to do with the fact that they havve so few friends and now that their spouse is divorcored from them or dead they have NOBODY to conmect with cause making friends as a middle aged man or a middle aged single dad is excruciatingly hard.

      What you see in clubs and school or on the street isnt super relevant if the data that we are observing shows us something else!

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

        Why is that?

        Well, they’re living longer, for starters. Historically, a bunch would already be dead, so they won’t be around to be sad.