There's a disgusting inversion going on right now where people try to justify incel behavior by saying men are lonely. This makes people feel bad about pushing back on this, because it sounds like you're a callous person that doesn't care about the very real pain of loneliness?

No. This is a nonsense trap.

Women get lonely. Black people get lonely. Loneliness is a real problem.

But loneliness is not justification for *checks notes* becoming a literal nazi and electing a racist dictator.

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Loneliness, combined with an extreme sense of entitlement, leads people to believe that they should be able to be terrible people, and yet somehow not lonely. It doesn't work that way.

And a lot of that loneliness is self-imposed!

White US toxic masculinity is a prison where you are your own warden. There are all these silly rules that keep white men in the US lonely and unhappy. Like seriously, we have news anchors telling men not to enjoy ice cream because that's not "manly?" Really?

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Show me a happy white man in the US, and I'll show you a man that rejects most of these rules. "๐Ÿง”๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธWho made that a rule? Who says I have to follow it? LOL! No. ๐Ÿ˜‹๐Ÿฆ"

But then we've got other men:

๐Ÿง”๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธMen suffer so much! The loneliness is real! No one cares about our mental health!

๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐ŸผThat sounds hard! Therapy helped me --

๐Ÿง”๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธNo!

๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐ŸผOK... well talking to friends also --

๐Ÿง”๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธNo!

๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐ŸผOK... wow. Well, helping others can build a sense of community --

๐Ÿง”๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธNo!

๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐ŸผWhat do you think will help you?

๐Ÿง”๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ Trump!

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And yes, there are Black incels and manosphere podcast bros, as well.

White US men do not have a monopoly on using "loneliness plus entitlement" to justify mistreating women.

The twisted thinking is the same.

A better way to deal with loneliness, is to understand why you are lonely, and then to address that. Maybe it's depression or another very real mental health issue. Maybe it's your living situation. But I promise you, the cause is never "Not enough fascism in the world!"

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