Couldn't make it past 4 minutes of Vaush's latest male loneliness video. Same shit every time.

First he strawmans all lonely men as women hating right wingers, then drops the most basic advice. "Just dress nicer!" "Hit the gym bro!" Like sure, not bad advice, but it's so generic and doesn't help guys who don't fit society's beauty standards or are poor working class dudes that most women wouldn't go for anyway.

The whole thing feels like what you get when someone spends too much time on social media and has never met a lonely guy in real life. Terminally online.

Here's what gets me: this guy analyzes everything through a systemic lens. Housing? Systemic. Mental health? Systemic. Women's issues? Systemic. He'll tell women they need to work on themselves too, but he's way harsher with men.

But male loneliness? Suddenly it's all bootstrap shit. And he frames it like men are doing this to themselves through toxic masculinity, like we're training ourselves to be lonely. Like yeah, culture affects people, but that's not useful for actually helping anyone. And he completely ignores stuff like social anxiety, material conditions, and other real factors that can't just be fixed by reframing your cultural upbringing.

There's real stuff happening. People are more isolated, third spaces are dead, dating is a nightmare, economic stress is real. He'll acknowledge this stuff exists but then immediately jumps to the take a shower bro advice while throwing in a bunch of insulting comments. Like if you actually thought this was a real problem you wouldn't treat it like a joke.

The whole thing is straight up misandrist. And it just pushes people toward the manosphere grifters.

What really gets me sad is that most of his community agrees with this. They just nod along to the premise that male loneliness is a right wing nazi problem. These people call themselves leftists but when it comes to men's issues they're straight up misandrist.

What does it say about the left in general and the online left in particular that they treat this like it's some kind of meme?