Show HN: I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic

Re:Show HN: I'm starting a social club to solve the male lon... by JimDabell on Friday May 30, 2025 @02:57AM (#44133640)

Yes. I selectively pulled out the bits that I thought were relevant instead of quoting the whole thing.

I know he said that it’s been good, but taken in relation to the rest of the article, I don’t place much weight on it.

The women persistently pressured the men to join, the men were apprehensive, they allowed them in for one morning, one morning turned into all the time, women now comprise 50% of the group, and the men’s area is now relegated to a back room they escape to.

They got one of the men to say it was good, but that’s not the story that the article was telling.

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Re:Show HN: I'm starting a social club to solve the male lon... by williamdclt on Friday May 30, 2025 @07:22AM (#44135055)

> that’s not the story that the article was telling.

It is though? Reading the article, I'm fully getting a sense that its point is that it was an improvement for everyone (despite the article describing it as being triggered from nagging from the women).

Now you can choose not to believe that, but that _is_ the story the article was telling, or at least it's how I understand it.

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Re:Show HN: I'm starting a social club to solve the male lon... by afavour on Friday May 30, 2025 @03:27PM (#44139216)

> the men were apprehensive, they allowed them in for one morning, one morning turned into all the time

Your assumption is that it “turned into all the time” against the wishes of the men but that’s not clear at all. Being apprehensive about change and then quickly discovering it was for the better is something we all experience in life.

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