what is it with calling social phenomena deseases like, “woke mind virus” and “lonely mess epidemic”

these are covid words but they didn’t tale covid serious, it’s kinda weird

oc (kinda)

  • PotatoesFall
    692·
    4 months ago

    It may not be a “loneliness epidemic” (at least not only for men) but imho there certainly is an issue with men having a hard time finding a positive relationship to their gender, and loneliness probably does play some part in it.

    • nimpnin@sopuli.xyz
      68·
      4 months ago

      There was this one study that found that people have significantly fewer close friends than 30 years ago, and for men, the change was larger. I would call that a loneliness epidemic.

    • PotatoesFall
      432·
      4 months ago

      I don’t mean loneliness in the sense of not having a romantic/sexual partner, I mean loneliness in the sense of feeling abandoned in a hyperindividualistic capitalist society.