Male loneliness epidemic?

Hi, ladies over 50. 66F here. I keep reading the about the “male loneliness epidemic”. I’ve been lurking on conversations on male-oriented subreddits and surprise, surprise!—haven’t seen one insightful comment. Mostly it is lots of anger that people—specifically women—don’t have empathy for them. Typical stuff. But it has left me wondering.

I’m old enough that I remember “the good father” archetype—didn’t matter the genre, men like Ward Cleaver, Ben Cartwright, Charles Ingalls were everywhere on the TV tube—dads who showed emotional intelligence, who saw the big picture, showed empathy and restraint in guiding their children, whom you looked up to, whose guidance you accepted. Where is that guy in media now? The men they lionize now are the opposite of these traits…

More important, I struggled with loneliness, too, when I was 12 and it seemed all the other girls had a best friend except me. My father told me, to have a friend you have to be a friend and it’s always stuck with me. These all-men conversations seem so odd to me because it’s never about what’s changed in men’s values and behavior or what needs to change to get the result you want... So this is all over the place—your thoughts? Also, self-help culture, self-improvement culture … just for women? And is that the real problem?