You're right. All over the internet is the surplus males that can't get girlfirends. The so-called "One child policy" just exacerbrates the situation in China. So yeah, people do use the internet for the purposes of blowing off steam and other uses.--Eat me, I'm an azuki At 2015-10-06 23:08:51, "Carol Moore dc" <[email protected]> wrote: >On 10/6/2015 9:32 AM, rupert THURNER wrote: >> carol rightly pointed out to not mix mail threads, so let me create a >> dedicated thread. do you think there is a possibility to address the >> source of anger, and dealing with anger in a better way we do now? see >> for some initial reasoning below. my hypothesis is that 95% of >> wikiverse harassment falls in the "anger" category. many examples i >> saw up to now were caused by some sort of ignorance, on purpose or >> without knowing. >> >> best, >> rupert > >If you look at the mass shootings by young males over the last few years >a prominent theme is their inability to connect to other people and >especially to get girl friends. There even have been explicit complaints >of rejection by women. > >A lot of the issue is the "Male surplus" of males outnumbering women and >thus have little prospect of marriage. This has been written about a lot >in countries like China and India where there actually is sex selective >abortion of girls and even starving or killing of them after birth. In >each country there are upwards of 20 million "surplus" males. This is >recognized as a social problem since these guys often are frustrated and >attracted to violent gang or political activity. > >However, "Male surplus" also is an issue in advanced countries, though >sex selection is only a minor part of the problem. Biologically around >106 boys are born to 100 girls. However, because boy babies are more >physically frail and older boys tend to get in more fatal accidents in >the past the numbers evened out by maturity. > >Due to better health care more of these boys are living longer and thus >in every age group since around 1960 there are more boys than girls. The >fact that older males tend to marry younger women, including as second >"trophy" wives, means even less women are available. (Also, it is >theorized by some that one long-time purpose of war has been to weed out >young males so there aren't enough to challenge the older male >establishment. There have been far fewer such Western wars since World >War II - except Korea, Vietnam - and thus more surviving males.) > >So the US could have a couple million frustrated angry "surplus males" >who can't find women friends or dates and have little prospect of marriage. > >As we all know, these angry guys are all over the internet and Wikipedia... > >_______________________________________________ >Gendergap mailing list >[email protected] >To manage your subscription preferences, including unsubscribing, please visit: >https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
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