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i recommend trying to read books made for children or adult learners as soon as possible, because it’s a great way to pick up vocabulary. that can absolutely be started at A2 level, although you’ll need to look up words for context fairly regularly.

B1 level is generally when learners can start reading YA-level novels without stopping too often to look things up, because their vocabularies will be good enough that they can start to infer things from context.

B2 would be about the level for a lee child / agatha christie novel, although specific terminology, less common grammatical structures, or dialectical speech will still likely throw you for a loop until you encounter them more often.

i believe C1 is when learners are getting closer to that native-like fluency with reading comprehension etc, but i’ll let you know when i get there! :P

which boomers, though?

not our queer elders in the baby boomer and silent generation who went through the aids crisis & saw so many governments intentionally do nothing to help them.

not the baby boomers and silent generation who were in the black panther party, the white panther party, and who were building the rainbow coalition & who got targeted because of it.

not the baby boomers who’ve been sent to prison in the US for contrived reasons, to intentionally rob them of their voting rights.

the worst people have been intentionally robbing good people of votes, or having them killed off. it’s just more visible in that generation because of the size of that generation, due to the post-ww2 baby boom they were named for.

centi-billionaires are hoarding most of the us’s wealth, not boomers in general. fortune.con has a clear vested interest in keeping people fighting each other instead of fighting together.

i think “no war but class war” is an oversimplification most of the time, but when it comes to wealth hoarding, let’s focus on the centibillionaires who are hoarding literally hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars first.

the r slur really can’t be reclaimed, because the people most impacted by that slur are unable to participate in these conversations.

i hope it didn’t come across as harsh! really both problems 1 & 2 that you’ve outlined are the same things that everyone is dealing with. a lot of systems of oppression like patriarchy, european colonialism, capitalism, ableism, etc push people into isolation by design, & then tell people to heal from that in isolation, rather than in community.

(i suspect it’s designed that way to make people feel that these are individual problems & not collective problems, because if we realise that we’re all suffering from the same systems of oppression, we might do something to end those systems!)

we humans are a social species, and we’ve lived & learned & healed in community with one another for hundreds of thousands of years. just being open & communicating with the friends you already have about those issues is a great first step, then seeking out hobby groups etc is a way that you might expand your social circle beyond other men.

for the dating side of things, dating apps can be great, because boundaries are lot clearer there (over what is a date, what people are looking for etc) & that way, you can avoid the potential messiness of dating within your friend group.

tl;dr: i don’t think the formality of classes/training would be needed for this, but talking to your friends about this & going out of your way to make friends with mixed company would help a lot. (also, gathering with your friends, new & old, to dismantle the systems of oppression that are causing all these problems will solve things for future generations too 😎)

If men are facing a loneliness epidemic, they could learn to be friends with one another, enjoy one anothers’ company, and open up to one another about being lonely etc, instead of expecting women to train them.

I cant train men on how women want to be treated, and I wouldnt even want to tell men how women should be treated seeing as im not a woman.

Women want to be treated as equals to men, to be paid the same as men are, to be promoted in jobs as often as men are, and to be represented in government and media as much as men are. This is absolutely something that men can and should tell other men about.

i think it’s what displays when you’ve blocked the person/people commenting, or they’ve blocked you.

idk, i’m vegan and i think it’d be perfectly ethical to eat centi-billionaires 🤷