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(a)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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