Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!unc!fsks From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: More women than men Message-ID: <540@unc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 4-Jul-85 13:48:24 EDT Article-I.D.: unc.540 Posted: Thu Jul 4 13:48:24 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 7-Jul-85 06:25:46 EDT References: <210@cuuxa.UUCP><462@unc.UUCP> <1105@peora.UUCP> <629@tpvax.fluke.UUCP> <262@timeinc.UUCP> Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill Lines: 50 Summary: >In article <262@timeinc.UUCP> Ross M. Greenberg writes (parphrased): >> Regarding the reasons that women tend to sever the relationship >> more often than men: Women had more men after them then they could >> possibly handle: generally turning down more dates than they accepted. >> I'm talking quantity here, not quality, so no flames, okay? >> 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. In article moiram@tektronix.UUCP (Moira Mallison ) writes: > Well, Ross, this isn't MY experience. There is a paperback out > entitled _The Great American Man Shortage and What You Can Do About It_. > ... all I will say in support of the thesis is that it does match some > of my perceptions with some reasonable supporting data. > > 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?). This must be one of the reasons that, traditionally, women have been counselled to marry young. Also, consider the importance so many men place on a woman's looks -- younger women are usually better looking. > The sociological reasons have to do with girl-children being > socialized to "marry up", Come on! Does one REALLY need to be SOCIALIZED to want to marry up? That's like being socialized to like candy. > 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". See the discussions in net.social about Affirmative Action for women and the principle of Comparitive Worth (the idea that traditional "women's jobs" should offer salaries equal to "men's jobs" of comparable difficulty). Should women one day find full equality in the workplace, your problem will only get worse. > I don't know how old you are Ross, but it seems it's only a matter > of time before your situation changes. Assuming that he is willing to wait until a woman is nearing menopause before he marries her. Frank Silbermann