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Re:South Korea's middle aged men are dying 'lonely deaths' by skinnymuch on Sunday January 01, 2023 @05:28AM (#34205234)
This sounds…unhinged, homophobic, and like black pilled toxic masculinity.

Stuff like:

> GenX men are largely codependent and needy owing to pressure to be "sensitive,"

> being largely raised in broken homes,

> so their ideal relationship now resembles what is effectively sexual cannibalism elsewhere in nature.

> They don't identify as men because they think men are who hurt their mothers, the source of their belief in a perfect infant self.

What?

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Re:South Korea's middle aged men are dying 'lonely deaths' by legerdemain on Sunday January 01, 2023 @06:08AM (#34205408)
Uncorrected personality traits that seem whimsical in a child may prove to be ugly in a fully grown adult.
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Re:South Korea's middle aged men are dying 'lonely deaths' by skinnymuch on Sunday January 01, 2023 @08:39AM (#34206168)
What? Obsessing over men being men and worrying about made up gender norms is the most childish binary way of thinking.
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Re:South Korea's middle aged men are dying 'lonely deaths' by legerdemain on Sunday January 01, 2023 @02:22PM (#34209751)
Lack of involvement with the father or over-involvement with the mother may result in lack of ability to relate to sexual peers.
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Re:South Korea's middle aged men are dying 'lonely deaths' by dang on Sunday January 01, 2023 @11:26PM (#34214351)
Much as I value a Robyn Hitchcock reference, please don't troll on HN. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:South Korea's middle aged men are dying 'lonely deaths' by dang on Sunday January 01, 2023 @11:28PM (#34214368)
It's a quote from a song which satirizes this way of thinking.
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Re:South Korea's middle aged men are dying 'lonely deaths' by motohagiography on Sunday January 01, 2023 @05:57PM (#34211991)
It's 2023, we're adults, we can have conversations about how we relate. Given the original topic was about how men demographically have trouble forming relationships - where they did not for literally centuries, the meaningful question is what has changed.

I had direct experience with the growth issues facing a traditional fraternal organization. We can't really use the words we mean when we talk about the jargon this comment uses, but suffice it to say, among the scores of men I know socially, the people who use that jargon are punchlines.

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