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I think the very simple answer is anxiety / social anxiety is distributed normally, with some low % of men just drawing a bad lot. People get good and comfortable at socializing by putting in a lot of “reps.” You never think about this because for the most part it was just part of normal life. If, however, you add up the amount of hours a child used to spend socializing in say, the 1950s, you end up finding out that they spent more time socializing by age 18 - 15-20,000 hours - than on school. There’s a famous rule of thumb that you need to have 10,000 hours of practice to become a master at something. So just by living a normal childhood, kids would become a “master” at socializing by the time they graduated high school. The percent of men seemingly unable to function rose because the American childhood became more sheltered. It’s common knowledge that in the past they used to let kids walk several miles away from home. This was totally normal and nobody cared. In fact it was so normal that they literally had celebs come on TV at 10 o’clock at night to tell parents, “Do you know where your children are?” because parents just let their kids run free and had no way to contact them. I think because in the past they would be “forced” to interact with society and eventually get over it. At least, they would get better at it. Of course, kids weren’t exactly “forced” to socialize back in the day. They wanted to because it was fun. There was nothing else to do. Teens would “loiter” at the mall because that was where their friends or cute girls were. They would “cruise” around town because there was nothing else to do. Fast forward to the 2010s and now there are a bunch of things you can do in the comfort of your own room that are in many ways, more exciting that going out. If you look at Time Use Surveys of how American teenagers spend their time over the years, you will see that the amount of time spent socializing has collapsed while the amount of time spent on the phone or computer rose. As it turned out, we got way more neurotic about letting kids play outside unsupervised at the same time a bunch of new technologies appeared that made staying inside much more fun. Take Stranger Things for example. The main characters (Mike Dustin Lucas and Will) are all nerds. They get bullied. Despite that they are still pretty social. They meet up a lot to play DnD. They ride their bikes around town. They go to the arcade. They go to the school dance. What would the “Party” look like in 2026? They’d probably just stay in the rooms, play video games on Steam, and chat over discord, never leaving the house except for school.If you compound this over an entire childhood, that indoor kid is “missing” 15-20,000 hours of “practice” when it comes to in-person socializing. Importantly this didn’t affect everyone. I think the distribution just shifted to the point where “at risk” kids who would otherwise turn out fine got screwed by modernity. However, there are still plenty of normal, well-adjusted kids. Not everyone got hit by this. But it does explain I think why there are more of these people today than in the past

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