This is probably getting off topic, but the main articles on this
subject on en.wiki would probably be
"sex-selective abortion" and "gendercide".
Ryan Kaldari
On 6/20/12 2:37 PM, Carol Moore DC wrote:
One
comment on your draft, is that the langugage makes it a bit
unclear for the average reader if/that the imbalance in England
was because the males left the country and/or were killed in
overseas wars. It's implied but not sufficiently explicit so some
people might get confused.
Also, the topic of surplus males is probably more timely today and
I've thought about writing an article about it, so this certainly
is relevant.
More males are born in general since they aren't as hearty as
females. Today with modern medicine more survive accident and
disease, there are more males that females in the post 1960s
generations and more single angry males mean more violence. It's
worse in countries like China and India where they abort so many
female fetuses.
A number of things have been written on this topic, which I have
filed someplace. The one that jumps out at me without much
research is:
Bare Branches: The Security Implications of Asia's Surplus Male
Population
Studies show married or co-habitating males have generally lower
testosterone levels. I'm sure some of my research notes that
times of surplus females tend to be times of peace and peace
activism. 1920s saw great peace activity led by women. 1960s when
there was a slight surplus of women ready to make love, peace was
a big issue among all those happy males who didn't want to trade
making love for making war.
Today all those young guys worldwide want to do to deal with their
frustrations is fight in sports riots or join the Black Bloc and
break windows or overthrow their tyrants - or edit wikipedia?
India and China may need a big land war to deal with their excess
male problems. Iraq and Iran didn't have that problem after they
sent millions of young men to die in 1980s Iraq-Iran land war.
In fact, I'm sure if I researched I'd find that I'm not the only
one to speculate that older males don't like all that poltiical
and sexual competition from younger males so regularly they have
to decrease the population by sending them off to foreign wars or
colonies. So there's a method to the old warmonger male's
madness....
So this is quite a big topic - though I'm not sure if it calls for
one article called "Surplus males or females" or "Surplus gender
demographics" or whatever the experts call the broader topic.
Busy on a writing deadline so just don't have time to do the
research right now. But I think I've thrown enough hints out there
to help anyone go frolicking through the internet for lots of good
WP:RS :-)
CM
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