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" <carolmooredc@verizon.net> 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...
>
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