Quote: (09-12-2012 10:58 PM)Samseau Wrote:
Quote: (09-12-2012 09:34 PM)j r Wrote:
Here's a census report with all the relevant information: http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/brief...0br-03.pdf
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see any evidence for growing sex ration (the number of males per 100 females).
Men outnumber women by over half a million in the 20-29 age group. Men outnumber women in every age group until you reach the age 40 mark.
Since men mainly go for women in their 20's and below, and since women prefer a much smaller group of men (the alphas) between the ages of 18-40 (roughly speaking), what you have is a situation where tens of thousands of extra men in every city in America are chasing a limited supply of single young females.
Hence:
Massive sausage-fests in the online dating world.
Massive sausage-fests in your average bar or club.
Massive sausage-fests pretty much everywhere you go in America.
If you think about it, it's extremely counter-intuitive for a man to hold the abundance mentality, since in reality men are in abundance, not women.
However, for alphas, women are in abundance, as alphas are scarce.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you. More men are born, but more men die at all ages. The sex ratio for younger people is skewed towards more men, until the increased death rate kicks in around middle age and then there's more women from there up. These are normal population characteristics.
I thought you were saying that this a new phenomenon being driven by some glut in the male population. Men outnumber women by 500,000 in the 20-29 age range out of a total of 43 million. Men make up 50.72% of the population in that age range. If you walked into a bar with 100 people in it and 51 were men, you wouldn't exactly call that a sausage fest. Plus, it's going to vary widely by location. Go to Alaska, the Dakotas, Silicon Valley, and you'll find dudes on top of dudes. In the cities, however, the ratio is skewed towards more females.
If the world appears to be a sausage-fest, it's because of where women are, how fat many of them have become, and what it takes to attract them; it's not because of any abnormal oversupply of men.
By the way, this is all for the United States. Things may be different in other countries.