Thanks for reading, and I agree that there perhaps should be a different term, but then there's the fact that a huge percentage of the American population (both male and female) is lonely. It's hardly a male problem.

"People began to tell me they felt isolated, invisible, and insignificant. Even when they couldn’t put their finger on the word “lonely,” time and time again, people of all ages and socioeconomic backgrounds, from every corner of the country, would tell me, “I have to shoulder all of life’s burdens by myself,” or “if I disappear tomorrow, no one will even notice.”It was a lightbulb moment for me: social disconnection was far more common than I had realized." ~Surgeon General, Vivek Murthy