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It sounds like your position is that the loneliness epidemic affects everyone and that there's no reason to talk about it being male loneliness. If so, I believe you're in agreement with the OP and feminist circles: "There is no male loneliness epidemic. It is simply a loneliness epidemic."

However, if you nose around online, you'll find that there are MRA-type circles who are very invested in the idea that it is a specifically-male problem. I interpret the OP img-text as being a reaction against that. To continue the New University quote from above: "By arbitrarily gendering a universal loneliness, our fragmented society becomes further fractured, and the discourse surrounding relationships becomes a breeding ground for misogyny."

I think the US will be fine as long as we don't repeatedly elect some kind of cabal of pedophile authoritarians.

In the past, it was expected that men would have closer relationships with each other. Then we had the whole backlash against the hippie movement and it became "gay" and "bad" to swap handjobs with your bros in the basement den.

I believe you're misreading their posts. In the text that you quoted, they say, "I think f(X) and g(X) both exist. I think that X is actually two populations: X~a~ and X~b~."

You've quoted this to say, "if you don't think g(X) exists then why did you post??"

(f(X) is men who want friendship, g(X) is men who want sex, X~a~ is men in feminist circles, X~b~ is men not in feminist circles.)

I don't mean to suggest that there's nothing to be done or that having society provide you with community is the solution. Just that it used to be that way and we're in a state of transition.

No one is depriving these people from joining the same organizations today

Right. But I'm saying that previously you were raised into an organization. You pretty much had no choice but to be a member of whatever group your family had been a member of. Now we've got a more free-form society and finding a group takes effort. And because you're not being forced to stay in by societal expectations, it even takes effort to stay with the group.

++ but I think it can't be overstated how much effort social skills takes. Especially if you're starting from near zero.

Society cannot gift you friends…

It sort of can! Think about a very-religious church group or a military squad. When people are forced to spend all their time with a small group, they mostly become friends.

In the not-very-distant past, we lived in much smaller communities with much more interdependence.

I think some of the "male loneliness" talk is because society used to literally gift men with a friend group and a family and now they need to get all these things on their own but a lot of boys have not been raised to develop the skills they need for this new society.

It's shitty, but it's not "enshittification".

Doctorow's explanation goes

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification

What the OP describes is just obnoxious design. To be enshittification it should be a change from better UX to worse and the change should be an attempt by the site to grab some extra cash.

Twitter requiring an account to see replies to a tweet is an example--they're trying to juice their user-count.

Capitalism is when there's an owner-class controlling production via capital. It doesn't really matter what they're producing or at what cost or who's consuming.

No, because cross-country trains and heavy use of them to move goods and people predates cars by quite a bit. Trains were a key component of the North winning the Civil War, for example.

Lots of existing train infrastructure needed to be torn out to make room for car infrastructure.

Are you suggesting that's why the US hasn't improved trains? Is there something about train improvements specifically that you think is harmful?