Comment by gelatinskootz on 15/02/2025 at 04:56 UTC

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View submission: Men, Women and Social Connections - Roughly equal shares of U.S. men and women say they’re often lonely; women are more likely to reach out to a wider network for emotional support

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I mean I'm mostly contrasting this to what is offered to women, as that seems to be what the study they referenced is useful for. I would imagine that the vast majority of women are not active in social groups that are explicitly only for women. Those kinds of groups are certainly more prevalent than they are for men these days, but they don't seem particularly widespread or popular to me. For hobbies that are generally known to be mostly women like yoga or arts classes, you're still gonna find at least one man there a lot of the time.

I just think the loneliness epidemic is an issue that extends beyond what formalized social groups like that can address on their own.

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