The fact that more people aren't just telling men to GET FRIENDS is wild to me. Tech billionaires want to sell you an AI friend and it's appealing bc AI will fake the transactional surface level things with none of the labor it takes to connect with a real human. You still don't have a real friend!!

"Getting no b--ches" is not a social contagion. Men caught up in this are just not doing the work it takes to not be lonely. They're looking for meaningful, emotionally intimate, supportive, steady relationships and it actually needs to start with having platonic friendships with each other.

But friendship skills are possible to learn and pick up. It's just harder and more uncomfortable to do that work than to outsource it to women and blame them if they'd rather not be subjected to that work and all the other effects of being around someone without any of those skills.

Admittedly culturally, we pretty much do not teach boys how to have emotionally intimate friendships and we normalize them not knowing anything about the guys they hang out with. We don't offer many models for emotionally deep friendships outside stories of war and sometimes team sports.

A gf is not supposed to manage all your emotional & social needs. If y'all knew how to have and manage your own emotionally intimate friendships, not only would YOU have that human need met without a gf, but you become way more datable than the men who want an unpaid social secretary / therapist.

I didn't get the job but i have booked some meetings and received lots of support. 20k impressions in 24 hours. I've got to believe that the things that make me hard to quantify into a simple story is exactly what someone will eventually hire me for. I think i have to be myself outloud.

I am still on the hunt for Timeless (the original Parasol Protectorate Series) and both Prudence and Imprudence (the Custard Protocol series). 💛

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I have had this Notion set up forever and so many people have loved it but it was only through the power of rereading 2000s teen vampire fiction that I found the spiritual energy to get it all set up.

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