I find this topic to be undignified on all sides. This idea that there is a standard for friendships is not something we need to engage with. Have friends. Don’t have friends. Talk to them. Don’t talk to them. Just live your life and who cares what others do.
Michael HobbesAs usual, it's basically an extended whine about how the author feels attacked by a societal discourse that doesn't apply to him. If you are fulfilled in your friendships that is great! But some men clearly aren't and that's what people are talking about when they discuss male loneliness.