Women Are Lonely Too, B*tch.
We're just better at it.
Welcome to Cheaper Than Therapy, a newsletter for 80s babies by Shani Silver.
If I hear the phrase “male loneliness epidemic” one more time so help me god. You know what, sunshine? Women are experiencing a loneliness epidemic too, we just call it…being alive. Single women have been existing for years in a desert that’s almost completely void of positive interaction, physical touch, and romantic companionship. Our experience was never acknowledged or even noticed, it was simply our responsibility to deal with quietly off-camera. Now that men are putting a name to their “extremely unique” struggle, the world is supposed to care? The male loneliness epidemic is the women’s loneliness epidemic with the assumption it’s somebody else’s problem. It’s a concept whose visual representation is best exemplified in those videos of men writhing in pain while wearing period simulators while women with cramps don’t flinch. Fucking drama queens, I swear.
This piece of information won’t surprise this community but just in case my newsletter goes viral for some reason: If the men are lonely, the women are lonely, too. That’s just logic babe, but when one gender has been socialized into entitlement, and the other has been taught to just deal with it, only one loneliness epidemic is going to make headlines. And I don’t think I’m going to give a shit.