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The Independent reports:
Psychologist and professor emeritus at Stanford University Phillip Zimbardo (who led the team of researchers who conducted the Stanford Prison Experiment) has made the warnings, which form a major part of his latest book, Man (Dis)Connected.
Zimbardo says (in this TED talk) there is a "crisis" amongst young men, a high number of whom are experiencing a "new form of addiction" to excessive use of pornography and video games. Citing the research he and his team conducted for the book, he says: "It begins to change brain function. It begins to change the reward centre of the brain, and produces a kind of excitement and addiction."
An article from Psychology Today, however, argues that there are no demonstrable scientific links between porn consumption and the disputed phenomenon called 'Porn-Induced Erectile Dysfunction.'
Could this problem be manifesting itself as the rise of the Hikikomori?
(Score: 5, Interesting) by K_benzoate on Monday May 11 2015, @07:41PM
The equation is true for me at least, and some of my male friends. I am attractive, fit, have a decent job etc, but I've simply given up on women who are around my age. They are so entitled, so ruined by radical feminism which has trained them to see themselves as put-upon victims in all interactions with men, and so childlike in their inability to take responsibility for their own lives and actions that it's easier to just opt-out of romantic relationships altogether. Marriage is even worse, as then the state gets involved to stack the deck against men even more.
There are women who aren't like this of course, but they're less common which means the chances of meeting one and her even being interested in you is small. And they are so in demand among high functioning millennial male nerds that they can afford to be choosy--and they are. In fact, choosiness among women in general is probably the main problem, and the great irony will be that the feminism they bought into after being promised empowerment will leave them just as alone and lonely in their 30s and 40s as the men they passed over in their 20s. The top men know they can just date a perpetually rotating roster of new 20 year olds. These women think they have it all figured out. They'll sleep around for a decade and then pick a top-tier man to settle down with. But the joke will be on them. Those men aren't going to settle down, and even if they did there will never be enough of them for every woman. Then she's 30-40 years old, no longer attractive enough to pull those 10/10 guys like she could before, and it'll be too late to find anyone at all. This is the hypergamous world that feminism sold women as their liberation. It's not a dream, it's a nightmare for men AND women.
So there we are. Many men simply can't find compatible partners and are trying to deal with the loneliness through various addictive behavior. Thankfully my own addictions are relatively benign: exercise and video games. I've made my peace with this sort of solitude, but my biggest fear in life is that it'll get harder to endure when I'm older. I probably won't enjoy being single and unmarried when I'm 50 as much as I do now at 25.
Climate change is real and primarily caused by human activity.
(Score: 2) by fliptop on Monday May 11 2015, @08:17PM
It's different but basically the same when you approach 50. I was married for 18 years but after 3 years of dating since my divorce the problem, as I see it, is all the good ones are still married. The ones that are worthwhile are also less common and in high demand and as a consequence of having life experience they're even more picky.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 12 2015, @01:30AM
Back when I was your age, I honestly thought that life just wouldn't be worth living anymore if I were still single after 40. Now, I'm over 50 and still single. It's no cake walk, but life is still worth living, even as a 50+ year old single guy.
(Score: 2) by zugedneb on Tuesday May 12 2015, @03:54AM
They will do like the oldish swedes: buy small dogs as company...
Then, on the streets walking the dog: if a dog does not like some other dog, the owners avoid each other as plague, even if they have been neighbours for 10 years...
Or like the young swedish women: she is in age to get children, but has no such relationship, so she buys little dog as comfort... No sane man takes a woman where he has to go up 6 in the morning to walk the dog...
Absolutely bizarre...
old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday May 12 2015, @08:45AM
I'm 51. 25 year old women pale in comparison to the feminism of women my age.
You are threatened by feminism; I am not. I'm completely cool with voting for female elected representatives, working for and with women, having women friends that I don't have sex with.
Go take a woman's studies class, you might learn something.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by K_benzoate on Tuesday May 12 2015, @05:58PM
You are threatened by feminism; I am not.
Maybe you should be. [google.com]
Climate change is real and primarily caused by human activity.
(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Tuesday May 12 2015, @06:18PM
You are threatened by feminism; I am not.
Maybe you should be.
Seriously? [thewire.com]
(Score: 2) by K_benzoate on Tuesday May 12 2015, @11:01PM
Just so we're clear, modern feminism is now at the point where its sympathizers have to spend time justifying genocidal language. They've come a long way since Susan B. Anthony. People who talk like that ("kill all men" et al) are disgusting. People who defend them are casuists.
Her entire justification is based on a lie; a worldview crafted to make women feel like paranoid, helpless, children. There are no wide-spread systemic injustices perpetrated by men against women. It's a fiction. It's a myth perpetuated by identity-politicians and gender-ideologues. Women have every legal right that men have, and many privileges that men do not. Thus this campaign is not a playful barb by a downtrodden oppressed class against their oppressor. It is the moral, and logical equivalent of "kill all women" and is equally deranged and deplorable.
Climate change is real and primarily caused by human activity.
(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Wednesday May 13 2015, @05:45PM
Is this any different at all from all the misogynist whining and worse that goes on whenever a woman makes a statement or stands up for herself? Or is that just boys being boys?
(Score: 2) by K_benzoate on Wednesday May 13 2015, @06:24PM
all the misogynist whining and worse that goes on whenever a woman makes a statement or stands up for herself?
[Citation needed]. Men are expected to be able to back up their words with reasoning and evidence too. But when men have the temerity to ask the same of women, it's misogyny. I call it equality. Feminists want it both ways. Sorry, I'm not going to just "listen and believe."
Climate change is real and primarily caused by human activity.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday May 13 2015, @12:16AM
we were all UCSC students. Sometimes she could get on my nerves but for the most part I blew her off.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]