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by watwut 1208 days ago
It is about men being single and male sexual happiness. Otherwise said, it is about what men should do to make themselves more happy. The implied assumption is that women are happy with status quo or might even have opposite interests.
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PedroBatista 1208 days ago
That’s a hell of an assumption.

My informed guess is once you scratch off the Instagram paint it’s an absolute disaster too.

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igetspam 1208 days ago
Many studies disagree with you thought.

Here's one article: https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/why-bad-looks-good/2...

Single women, it turns out, are the happiest. And then single women with kids. Men have to change or we'll become obsolete. Our UX, in general, is bad.

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Tonantzintla618 1208 days ago
I see this study brought up a lot, there's actually an interesting misconception that the researcher Paul Dolan failed to admit which corrupted the study. He cited the American Time Use Survey on the survey's data point of "Spouse absent", but he interpreted the meaning of the point as "spouse left the room and subject will be honest about their feelings" versus "subject is divorced or separated from the spouse". As you can imagine, this wildly changes the reason of why women are unhappy.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/6/4/18650969/married...

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Al-Khwarizmi 1208 days ago
Interesting poll.

So I guess the comparison of 60% single young males vs. 30% single young females would be even more one-sided if we discount those who are willingly single and wouldn't want to change that status.

Life is hard for young men these days.

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mikhael28 1207 days ago
This is the most HN comment I've seen on this thread here. Excellently done.
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watwut 1208 days ago
My comment was written based on what article said. It really does not mater what is on Instagram or wherever.

The article was about men being single and male sexual happiness. It was not about female happiness or fulfillment other then when their choices affect male coupling. That is not bad or anything, but simply not the focus of the article.

Author wrote write article about men without putting mini outrage over women-on-Instagram which is perfectly fine.

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