The decline of the family has unleashed an epidemic of loneliness
I’ve been feeling a pretty intense sort of depression and loneliness for the last month or so.<p>The feelings of “you’re a <i>white male</i> and you work in tech and you are wealthy you are a SATAN” is just becoming too much :(.<p>I volunteer a tremendous amount in education, where I’m the only male I generally even see in my field, and I <i>constantly</i> have to listen to my coworkers gleefully talk about how excited they are at how few young boys show up to our events.  I hear them blatantly express disdain when a couple do.<p>Its so, so sad.  I try getting away from the news, but then it creeps into my life anyway.<p>I’m not some devil because of my genitals, my sexual orientation, or the color of my skin.  I volunteer so much of my time specifically to the homeless and less fortunate, I give so much money to charity, I do so much stuff in my community...and yet I just have to hear almost constantly that I am everything wrong with the world because I am an evil, cis, white, monogamous, straight male.  I tick every single box of bad guy it seems like there is, and I don’t want to be the bad guy.  I actually try really hard to be a nice guy.<p>It just makes me so so sad :(.  And if I ever do even mention that, it just makes it even worse, hence the throwaway account.