People discuss the «male loneliness epidemic» from so many different angles. It’s easy for some to blame the poor social skills and introverted tendencies of Generation Z men on them not being able to find a partner. Some might argue that framing this as a problem that harms men only downplays the difficulty all single people face in dating in the digital age. Some wholeheartedly believe in the tenets of incel ideology: that women are hypergamous and only want to date the hottest men in the world, while normies get cheated on and ugly guys stay alone forever. This conversation has a lot of nuance, and none of it gets solved by assuming the worst of any one gender. 

A Gen-Z woman consciously tried to help solve the male loneliness epidemic by asking out her lonely male friend, whom she’d been eyeing for a while. When he rejected her, she took to Reddit to share her complex feelings.