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‘An uphill battle’: why are midlife men struggling to make – and keep – friends?
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2025
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The increased social isolation in our society is producing men and women who are incapable of socializing with others, especially socializing with other genders.
This is what happens when conservatives phrase every interaction children hve as sexual.
Now parents get CPS called on them for letting their kids be alone in public. And we forget the entire point of this scare was to attempt to make "pedophile" synonymous with "lgbtq" because we were still forcing many homosexuals to register as sex offenders.
No more getting your bikes and riding around with your friends after school. The Goonies' parents would loose parental rights in 2025.
Now teachers can't mention the existence of lgbtq people without getting fired on the spot. They can't teach about slavery anymore either.
Of course none of this religious, genital obsessed rhetoric helps children. It's always been about attacking minorities while clutching pearls.
The result has been each progressive generation is less socialized, despite the world becoming a much safer place over time for children to freely move and interact in public.
Conservative ideologies produce regressive policy, and religion maintains voters for conservative ideologies.
We need to reverse this
We can't, not by any peaceful means at this point
There will never be secure elections under fascism, and only twice in human history have fascists given up power peacefully, and those were very unusual circumstances that we cannot replicate here
Soap box and ballot box have failed, there's only one box left...