# Young men and relationships **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-men-and-relationships/1014156 **Category:** In My Humble Opinion **Created:** [February 11, 2025, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-men-and-relationships/1014156 "2025-02-11T05:39:53Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 310
### Author: ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid) #### Post date: [February 22, 2025, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-men-and-relationships/1014156/310 "2025-02-22T12:23:23Z")
> [@DemonTree](#): > > through years of men being blamed and attacked for talking about this online Interestingly one of the first suggested related threads to this one is this one: > [@Facing Middle Age With No Degree, & No Wife- The growing cohort of unmarriageable men](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facing-middle-age-with-no-degree-no-wife-the-growing-cohort-of-unmarriageable-men/367848): > > Interesting article - Marriage is apparenlty much less a compelling state of being than it used to be, and men at the lower mid range of the curve are falling off quickly. [Facing Middle Age With No Degree, and No Wife](http://www.gadsdentimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060806/ZNYT02/608060358/1011§ioncat=NEWS/) via fark From 2006. Nineteen freakin years ago. The trend is not a new one. The conversation there is pretty representative. Lots of support and empathy for men of our community in the position of being involuntarily unmatched. Some who are still here. None of them feeling that the appropriate reaction for them was to pull women down. Yeah there are forums of men who attack woman and blame “Chads”, who think violence is a justified response even, and groups of assholes in other forums and likely those who bully anyone who is vulnerable, including those who share their being romantically lonely. But if you see it frequently then you are in a different world than I see every day. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-men-and-relationships/1014156)._