Recently with the wave of girls posting their hot Halloween costumes on TikTok, boys around the same age are complaining in drones about how “revealing” the costumes are and are citing the cliché “wouldn’t want their future wife to dress like that,” the evidence every girl’s viral Halloween TikTok comment section.
Which is odd, because for a long time Halloween has been the day where you could wear the provocative Halloween costume and no one would bat an eye. Why? Because you’re free from societal norms.
And last time we checked how you dress isn’t a reflection of your character so why the sudden change in attitude?
Lots of threads lead back to insecurity and the male loneliness epidemic
New studies have shown that 45% men aged 18 to 24 have never asked a woman out in person.
Why? Because of increased usage of AI chat boxes, red pill content that capitalizes on boy’s insecurities and fuels their hatred of women, and discord and reddit.
Hence, the sight of girls their age having fun without dress and dressing for themselves is a concept they struggle to grasp because according to the echo chamber they reside in, women only do things for men.
Well, the “male loneliness romantic epidemic” itself refers to recent phenomenon where men are struggling in finding friends and romantic partners, while generally lacking the community to fall back on for emotional support. According to Gallup’s 2025 survey, one in four young American men (15-34) feel lonely “a lot of the day.” Which is ridiculous in itself, because women feel plenty lonely all the time, but you don’t see a “female loneliness epidemic.”
Patriarchal standards have established clear gender roles and divides and have made it abundantly clear that men should refuse to build deep emotional connections with each other in favor of shallow bonds, instead they are told to use their partners to fulfill emotional, physical, and sexual needs, which is a highly unsustainable rhetoric because it is extremely unhealthy for one person to be your source for every aspect of our social desires and the chances of finding someone who can fulfill all of those needs are very low.
Hence why women, who throughout history have fostered deep emotional connections with their friends and communities in comparison to men, are typically not destabilized by a lack of romantic partner and why I can conclude that the “male loneliness epidemic” is a self-made societal issue.
If we as a society, taught boys that suppressing their emotions does not lead to superior strength or societal advantage, and vulnerability isn’t emasculating and should be praised instead of scorned, then maybe boys would be able to survive without relying on a romantic partner and maybe they could communicate with women without berating them.