Caitlin V

you would realize that you have a full person in front of you with a life who had a history and a morning and has kids and a family and has the shit that they're dealing with, right?

But when you reduce them to a two-dimensional object on a screen, they're not really a whole human anymore, right?

They're a sparring partner in the comment section.

And I think that that also further isolates us because we experience people treating us like that.

I don't know what your experience is existing as a person on the internet or like comments.

Just like everybody else's.

Yeah.

But like people feel like they, they, they, they'll say things about us and this conversation as well.

Right.

And I, you know, it's one of the, I try to be really selective about reading the comments because one of the things that like kind of comes up for me whenever I see something particularly like hateful towards me is like, I'm, I'm a person.

I can't see you saying that to me.

No, they wouldn't.

I'm going to make you watch.

Forget the thousand nice things.

You guys don't matter at all.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then I wonder, like in terms of the loneliness epidemic and the experience that men are having is like, how much of this is just happening on an individual level where like, whether they're the subject of those or the recipient of those, but they're like just swimming in this sauce.

And so this becomes reality, right?

If you're not spending a significant amount of time in like the default world reality, like out interacting with the people,

Maybe at a job, maybe community service, maybe in a men's group or maybe whatever it is.