Men love to use Norah Vincent as a prop for their own struggles, which is a perfect example of the unique nature of *female* loneliness.
Norah Vincent killed herself DECADES after she her experiment & book where she posed as a man. It was medically assisted suicide because she had treatment-resistant depression.
Men who have never read her book claim she killed herself cuz it's hard to be a man.
If they had read it, they'd know it wasn't the experience of "being a man," it was the fear of being caught as a woman in male social groups, the stress of performing 24/7 for *18 months*, & a history of treatment-resistant depression she felt was worsened by SSRIs.
To reference a person with lifelong mental health issues only to serve your narrative is an extreme version of something men do to women all the time. We're props in *their* stories, not individuals with feelings as dark & complex as their own. Hence why guys like this can't believe women could *ever* feel as lonely as they do 🙄
Norah's book was great. She highlighted male issues. Funny how a man's never bothered to do the same thing with women to my knowledge, y'all might learn a lot 🤷🏻♀️
And as always, not all men when I say men, gents.