Is It An Actual Thing? And Can Cities Fix It?

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If you're like a lot of people, the whole idea of the "male loneliness epidemic" elicits a huge eye roll more than anything. Well, today we're digging into the research on why this is an emerging issue, and whether urban planning is part of the solution.

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Resources:
Táíwò Olúfẹ́mi O. 2020. “Stoicism (as Emotional Compression) Is Emotional Labor”. Feminist Philosophy Quarterly 6 (2). https://doi.org/10.5206/fpq/2020.2.8217.
https://www.equimundo.org/resources/s...
https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/fil...
https://wou.edu/westernhowl/the-male-...
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/origin...
https://mindfultherapygroup.com/blog-...
https://olianderson.co.uk/emotional-s...
https://news.columbia.edu/content/bla...
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers...
https://www.americansurveycenter.org/...
https://www.the-independent.com/news/... studying-working-class-men-b2757957.html
https://www.pewresearch.org/2025/01/1...
https://www.americansurveycenter.org/...
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-tr...
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/instea...
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles...

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Glenn Gould, Av Library and Archives Canada. Lisens: CC BY NC ND 2.0
Thomas Pynchon By Photo presumably taken by "Mr. DiLillo", who was identified as staff photographer of The Oysterette (Mead 1989, p. 170). - * Original source: The Oysterette yearbook, 1953, published by Oyster Bay High School in Oyster Bay, New York.Immediate source: Reproduced on page 171 of Clifford Mead's 1989 book Thomas Pynchon: a Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Materials, published by the Dalkey Archive Press, ISBN 0-916583-37-6. Scanned copy of the book accessed via the Internet Archive. Minor retouching by uploader—see upload history for unretouched original., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
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