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In the internet spaces I've come across I haven't seen it treated as a joke, but I have seen it treated as something that is men's fault:
"men aren't putting in effort for friendships, and then they're wondering why they don't have any friends!"
"Men think friendship is gay, and then they're wondering why they don't have any friends!"
"Men are so racist/sexist/homophobic/etc, and then they're wondering why no one wants to be friends with them!"
"Men are used to having women organize their social connections for them, and now that that's not happening anymore, they don't know how to make friends!"
All of these things are true for a very specific subset of people, but I don't think they're true for the majority of lonely men, and it makes me so angry seeing male loneliness brushed off as a "skill issue" that men could easily solve if they wanted to
There's nothing here!