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...