Cause friendship is surface level. Try talking about your feelings to one of them and see how quickly you feel alienated.

And it's not sunshine on other side either in their defense. I've been in kind of an all women group once, it was genuinely a suffocating experience. Like there are just so many mannerisms and subtle etiquettes you need to pick up, it's almost harder to talk your mind in all women setting than in all men.

And who's you? I don't think either OP or the commenter is the person calling women catty bitches. Everyone's experience is different, and its better if you give it back to those who called you a catty bitch rather than a random dude on the internet.

It's a fool who believes that the circumstantial "friends" you make because you happen to be in the same place at the same time are true, ride or die, listen to your problems, give good advice friends.

The former you can make practically anywhere you go, like you said, it's a meme. The latter are tough, maybe a couple in your whole life kind of encounters. The former will fill a room and you won't be alone, the latter will take up one seat and you won't feel lonely. Quantity vs quality.

You're being very reductive. I don't know who called you a catty bitch but chances are it wasn't every man who's ever complained about being lonely.

So when you throw it in men's faces and say pick a lane, you're kinda doing the same thing that some men do when after encountering one or two golddiggers they make sweeping generalizations like "women only want men for their money."

Men can be lonely. Men can also be assholes. But when you try to invalidate some men's loneliness because some men are assholes, that's a problem. And that tendency to generalize is one of the big contributing factors to male loneliness today.

Also, I've heard women call each other catty bitches, so don't pretend that's something only men do. The men you've heard say it might even have been repeating what they heard from other women.