The relationship recession is going global
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#4If people took a minute to put their phones away and looked around once in a while, they’d notice that males and females tend to self-segregate, with the vast majority of each gender spending time only with others of their own gender. This behaviour is constant in schools, parties, coffee shops, you name it. I’ve traveled extensively around the world, and I’ve observed the same patterns everywhere. Males and females lead drastically different lives. People act as if voicing these observations out loud automatically places you in the ‘incel’ category.
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#5If people took a minute to put their phones away and looked around once in a while, they’d notice that males and females tend to self-segregate, with the vast majority of each gender spending time only with others of their own gender. This behaviour is constant in schools, parties, coffee shops, you name it. I’ve traveled extensively around the world, and I’ve observed the same patterns everywhere. Males and females…
> “People act as if voicing these observations out loud automatically places you in the ‘incel’ category.”
Quite the strawman. Does anybody claim that?
Women would certainly agree that social circles everywhere tend to be genderized. And part of the reason is a vicious cycle: men are not used to spending time with women, so they easily misunderstand the situation and get sexual or romantic ideas that are not reciprocated. And having to sort out this unwanted attention and the resulting emotions makes women even less likely to want to spend time with men.
There’s a reason why “the gay best friend” is a trope in American fiction featuring women. It’s not because gays are feminine — it’s because they don’t bombard women with their unprocessed feelings.
If you want to fix the situation, stop rambling about incels and start thinking of ways to get boys and girls to spend more time together at all ages. American parents still seem to tend to treat boys and girls as separate species.
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#6Relationships are work. People are lazy. They work hard enough just to keep rent paid and the power on.
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#7If people took a minute to put their phones away and looked around once in a while, they’d notice that males and females tend to self-segregate, with the vast majority of each gender spending time only with others of their own gender. This behaviour is constant in schools, parties, coffee shops, you name it. I’ve traveled extensively around the world, and I’ve observed the same patterns everywhere. Males and females…
What is your point in relation to the article?
How would gender self-segregation be related to __rising__ rates of singledom?
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#8We were sold a model where having a career is the most important thing in life, at the expense of family and relationships. Because of that, the world gets richer but unhappier.
Additionally, local human contact has been replaced by a world of upvotes by strangers with quirky online names.
We need to work on figuring out how we can get the undeniable benefits of modern technologies without forgetting our biological needs. Thousands of years of civilization teaches some lessons on what's important (and what's unfair and dangerous). We should look back for some ideas.
Re: The relationship recession is going global
#9We were sold a model where having a career is the most important thing in life, at the expense of family and relationships. Because of that, the world gets richer but unhappier. Additionally, local human contact has been replaced by a world of upvotes by strangers with quirky online names. We need to work on figuring out how we can get the undeniable benefits of modern technologies without forgetting our biological n…
Career and grinding is not a goal, but is needed to afford an house and money to help your parents.
Apartment prices relative to income have gone greatly up. Thus, more grinding needed and some low wage occupations are priced out from the market altogether.
The question is why apartment prices keep going up and can we stop it.
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#10Relationships are work. People are lazy. They work hard enough just to keep rent paid and the power on.
Or perhaps after working hard enough to keep the rent paid and the power on they have little energy left to pursue the important stuff.