Loneliness is rife among young men. It’s time to get offline and talk to each other

Article here. Definitely has some bullspit tropes in it but the overall message is good: most men do need time with their fellow men. Digital world isolation is a real thing. Excerpt:

'Since 1990, there has been a sharp decline in how many people men say they are close to, says Ferrara, who is a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford and a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics. In the US, two-thirds of men aged between 18 and 23 think that nobody really knows them; one third haven’t seen anyone outside their household in the past week; only a fifth say they have friends they can really count on; and a staggering 69% of young men think “no one cares if men are OK”.

Of course, women also experience this same loneliness, isolation and disconnection – at rates that are not far behind their male counterparts. In addition, many women in relationships with men find themselves doing something that Ferrara has named “mankeeping”, a term that has recently gone viral: picking up the emotional weight of being their male partner’s only intimate social connection. With this in mind, Ferrara has had her work dismissed as “himpathy” – in other words, too kind to adult men who should be able to look after themselves.

While I understand the reflex to lash out and ask, “Why should a bunch of incels get so much attention?”, such a dismissal is a mistake. “Our lives are so interlinked,” as Ferrara put it to me: men’s failures to maintain close connections are hurting society at large.'