Perhaps the cure to male loneliness is men stepping up for men. As a former lost boy myself, I certainly would have appreciated it.

Now I mentor the shit out of juniors in my professional life.

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    14 days ago

    The unfortunate reality is men like him are totally casted aside in favor of predators who’d rather take advantage of them, like Trump, Andrew Tate, or the rest of the Epstein class and aspiring Epstein class.

    Capitalism favors the morally bankrupt dark triad personality types, and we’re living to see that on full display. I greatly fear for what young Gen Alpha and Gen Beta will become, growing up in a world ruled by and glorifying such evil men.

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      It’s because a good con man focuses on saying what people want to hear whenever possible. Makes them easy to manipulate.

      Someone who actually wants to help you will tell you things that are hard to hear. Inconvenient truths. Sometimes we are not ready to hear them or accept them, and that’s where the struggle is. It’s the same as the concept of tough love in parenting (which for the record does not mean beating your children).