# 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:** 441
### Author: ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu) #### Post date: [February 26, 2025, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-men-and-relationships/1014156/441 "2025-02-26T19:02:33Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > And here we see one of the problems about discussing men’s problems on the internet. The discussion always gets shifted to focus on women. Hmmm, I think there’s some confirmation bias at work here: namely, in your overlooking that that happens all the time the other way around too. Namely, discussion of women’s problems (on these boards, for example) gets shifted to focus on men. [Here’s a thread about women “incandescently angry” about paying alimony to slacker ex-husbands, which in the course of a few dozen posts shifted over to anecdotes about men paying alimony to ex-wives, and the unfair burdens that gender stereotypes place on househusbands.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-incandescently-angry-over-alimony/983391/63) [Here’s a thread about the emergence of increasingly sympathetic rather than skeptical attitudes toward female rape victims, which drifted over to discussing false accusations of rape and other criminal behavior by men.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-why-how-did-attitudes-towards-rape-victims-change/989906/64) So, nah, I don’t really think that “the internet” is particularly predisposed to just ignore men’s problems or treat them as secondary to women’s problems. There has always been and continues to be a lot of interest in discussing the problems of men. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-men-and-relationships/1014156)._