I hastily misread this as "thousands of women join combat club" and figured it was like Fight Club but only for women.

It is a little bit, when most of the people around you are fascists that hate you for things you can't change about yourself, and if you tried you'd be fucking miserable. Fuck small towns

No haha that was 75 years ago.

Yikes

Who knew that making friends would help combat loneliness ...

No we're talking about the change YOU want to see in the world, not the change I want to see

Yep. My grandparents entire social life was dominated by the church. Ladies group, men’s group, the marrieds group (they founded it when they were all young and newlywed, and had to change the name at some point…) scouts, guides, youth clubs, Sunday school, choir, coffee mornings…. All of it. The harvest suppers and Christmas variety show, the musical performances. I remember it when I was a kid in the 90s and it “wasn’t like the old days” and then it all stopped. They’ve sold off some of the substantial hall space now. My grandparents and all their friends are gone.

Parts of India shoot poachers lol

Pretty big hateboner you got there. Show me on the doll where the mean redditor hurt you :p

Also I was just asking because it sounded like you were talking up joining organized religion as a solution to loneliness, which is pretty fucked up :p

This is definitely true of the US. The UK has not had religion as a cornerstone of community for a long time. My town's landmark church (huge, ornate and beautiful) has only survived by reinventing itself as a secular community hub as well as still conducting its religious services. So now we have this gorgeous building holding flower festivals, theatre productions, science fairs, ice skating, cinema showings, an annual beer festival and much more, in addition to running a coffee shop and childrens play area for anyone who just wants to pop in. It's wonderful, and much more in line with the community hub it would have originally been centuries ago.

It's a lot more/worse than raging about it "somewhere online." It's a constant and ugly thing.

Everyone needs to vent once in a while, but it's extremely disingenuous to act like that's what the above comment is talking about. If you want to talk about trying something, try seeing millions of angry men online complaining (often directly to you!) about how you should be giving them sex and how your completely normal standards and expectations are ruining their lives. Threatening your life because of it. Sometimes acting on it.

Online dating sucks and I have empathy for dealing with bots and flakey/shallow people. But it's not nearly the same issue as the rampant misogyny and incel ranting that translates to real violence and harassment against women.

I wonder if it ever occurs to Redditors to go offline and interact with people within the town or city they live in. This is something that seems to be a foreign and maybe even scary idea to them.

I didn't think about mobile games but, hmm, that makes sense.

I’d join! Where do we go to start one I wonder… Meetup.com? It’s so hard when money is so tight and everyone demands a monthly fee. I just want to sit in a room or chat in a park without worrying how much it’ll cost me per hour.

They've already got the proud boys, am I right?

Oh no I'm gonna get cancelled!

If we're including casual gaming (which we should cause it's 60% of the market), that's not really true. Women dominate mobile phone games.

Sounds exactly like the book 'All the Lonely People' by Mike Gayle!!! Just finished that book the other week!

Ironically, the gender-based hate just came from you

No not us, never!

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He was one of Donald Trump's largest campaign donors. Super racist, delusionally anti-woke, ran the company like a tyrant, etc. He was infamous for trying to fire Kevin Fiege in the early days of the MCU.

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You can say that but you can't deny the truth.

Okay, then you open up a chapter for me :)