Fw: NP was gender thread: now it is Game Over thread

[Matthew Cissell]

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From: Matthew Cissell <macissell at yahoo.es>
To: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> 
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 8:39 AM
Subject: Re: NP was gender thread: now it is Game Over thread
 

World Full of men? Sounds much worse than the present one. Brings to mind "The White Plague" by Frank Herbert. Frightening.


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 From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
To: Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> 
Cc: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>; pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 6:32 AM
Subject: Re: NP was gender thread: now it is Game Over thread
 

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> 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> 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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