Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ames.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!pesnta!hplabs!ames!barry From: barry@ames.UUCP (Kenn Barry) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: More women than men Message-ID: <1034@ames.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 12:59:16 EDT Article-I.D.: ames.1034 Posted: Wed Jul 3 12:59:16 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 07:24:02 EDT References: <210@cuuxa.UUCP><462@unc.UUCP> <1105@peora.UUCP> <629@tpvax.fluke.UUCP> <262@timeinc.UUCP> <5464@tektronix.UUCP> Organization: NASA-Ames Research Center, Mtn. View, CA Lines: 42 Whaddaya know, a disagreement I can settle! From Moira Mallison (tektronix!moiram): >In article <262@timeinc.UUCP> Ross M. Greenberg writes: >>Regarding the reasons that women tend to sever the relationship more often >>than men: >> >>Women, on the other hand, had more men after them then they could possibly >>handle: generally turning down more dates than they accepted. So breaking >>up from a not-so-perfect relationship did not mean that they were to >>be lonely on friday night. And so breaking up was not such a big deal. >> >>The situation hasn't changed much: men still do the majority of the >>initial asking and still take the initial risk of being turned down. >>Women still can get more dates than they can handle. I'm talking >>quantity here, not quality, so no flames, okay? > >Well, Ross, this isn't MY experience (except at a few computer conferences >:-). > >Essentially, as we get older, there are FEWER men "available" for partnering >for a variety of sociological and biological reasons. More female babies >were born, a higher childhood mortality rate for males, and a shorter life >expectancy for males in general are cited as the major biological reasons >(and they call US the weaker sex?). The sociological reasons have to do >with girl-children being socialized to "marry up", combined with women >(particularly we baby-boomers) doing well in our own right, >making "up" even higher, and therefore, decreasing further the number of >"available men". After long experience at bachelorhood, and conversations with many single women, I can conclusively report that there is a shortage of single women *and* single men after about the age of 30. *All* of my bachelor friends of both sexes are unanimous in reporting a lack of interesting, eligible MOTOS. This may seem paradoxical, but us mystics enjoy a good paradox. "What do you think of Western Civilization?" Kenn Barry "That would be nice." NASA-Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- USENET: {ihnp4,vortex,dual,nsc,hao,hplabs}!ames!barry