The male loneliness epidemic and how it affects fathers

[hunter]

61. I read the article and the premise is complete flaming bullshit.

Who the fuck are these people?

Aristus was being nice.

His was an appropriate response to the whining of grown men who think they are "special."

The idea that friendships have to be segregated into a "MALE" box and a "FEMALE" box may be the root cause of these males' distress.

Frankly the "MALE" friendship box is unpleasantly confining. It was my good fortune to be excluded from the boy's club starting in middle school but I could have done without the frequent beatings. The frequent beatings were one of the reasons I quit high school. I was a skinny squeaky autistic spectrum kid the bullies called "queerbait."

My wife and I were married and our children born over thirty years ago. My wife's career has always come first in our family which left me to do most of the childcare and all of the housekeeping. I don't recall being lonely or bored. I do recall being extremely sleep deprived when our children were preschoolers.

Maybe these guys are feeling "lonely" because their wives are still doing much of the heavy lifting in their households and "bringing home the bacon" too, thus allowing these men the luxury of wallowing in their masculine insecurities.

In all my life I've never had the time, the opportunity, or the inclination to cultivate any masculine insecurities.