NP was gender thread: now it is Game Over thread

[David Morris]

OK.
What about Russian Brides? It works for Alaska.

On Thursday, May 24, 2012, Joe Allonby wrote:

> They may be seen as property even more because of the scarcity of
> women. As a minority, they will have less power. Possession of a
> number of females will be seen as a status symbol for men, throwing
> the balance off further. Low status men will be unattached and without
> stabilizing families. This can lead to "foreign adventures". Women
> rarely do well when the adventurers come to town.
>
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> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 5:30 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> > Those women will have a position of power because of this.
> >
> > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >> UNNATURAL SELECTION
> >>  Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men
> >>
> >> 2012 Pulitzer Prize Finalist
> >>
> >> 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
> >>
> >> A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2011
> >>
> >> A Slate Best Book of 2011
> >>
> >> A Discover Magazine Best Book of 2011
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Lianyungang, a booming port city, has China's most extreme gender ratio
> for children under four: 163 boys for every 100 girls. These numbers don't
> seem terribly grim, but in ten years, the skewed sex ratio will pose a
> colossal challenge. By the time those children reach adulthood, their
> generation will have twenty-four million more men than women.
> >>
> >> The prognosis for China's neighbors is no less bleak: Asia now has 163
> million females "missing" from its population. Gender imbalance reaches far
> beyond Asia, affecting Georgia, Eastern Europe, and cities in the U.S.
> where there are significant immigrant populations. The world, therefore, is
> becoming increasingly male, and this mismatch is likely to create profound
> social upheaval.
> >>
> >> Historically, eras in which there have been an excess of men have
> produced periods of violent conflict and instability. Mara Hvistendahl has
> written a stunning, impeccably-researched book that does not flinch from
> examining not only the consequences of the misbegotten policies of sex
> selection but Western complicity with them.
>
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