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> I think loneliness is especially bad for men as we are prone to hide our mental health and true feelings/emotions

Don't put the blame on the victims. Modern society doesn't discuss and give relevance to the problems of individual men in the way it does to women's problems.

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How about "[men] are conditioned to hide our mental health and true feelings/emotions"

How about "men have difficult lifes the same way women have so this creates problems that we should be better prepared to discuss and solve?"

Much better. "we are prone to hide our mental health and true feelings/emotions" sounds like it's nature rather than nurture.

[EDIT: why the downvotes, again?]

I'm asking the same myself. But we all know the answer. HN is a dictatorial space that uses censorship to unify its opinion in a liberal banner. If you have progressive ideas you are out of the club.

That's not true! lots of people here have progressive ideas. Lots of people on the other sides, too, of course. The community is divided because society is divided.

It is true that the political battle style of comment tends to get flagged and downvoted, because it's bad for the intellectual curiosity that HN exists for. But it's still possible to have thoughtful conversation about such ideas; it just unfortunately tends to degenerate quickly into not-so-thoughtful.

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