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Going boysober: the women who turned to celibacy in 2024
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I cannot help but wonder where all this is going. It just doesn't seem like trends like this, at least if they extrapolate out to larger groups could really lead to healthy outcomes.
I see men bitching about women and how they cannot find a woman they trust/build a long-term relationship with. That they risk nearly all of their income by meeting and marrying the wrong person. Men in total despair with the incel thing, committing murder/suicide in some cases. Or going for the MGTOW thing.
I see women declaring they are done with men, they want autonomy, are fed up with misogyny and patriarchy.
I don't know if these are just the loudest people in the room, the voices getting boosted the most, or what but it does seem there are just a lot of very unhappy people. It's like our system has worked to create a world of lonely narcissists, even if they are not clinically narcissists to begin with. Men and women both thinking they deserve a partner that gives them what they demand, while not holding up their side.
( Maybe listening to the audiobook for It Came From Something Awful and all the nihilism involved is not helping my current view on things, either)
TBF, their comprehension of the word "celibacy" is only slightly more accurate than any religidiot's understanding of "abstinence".
Very reasonable point!