Too many men
2009-06-10 14:45:29.340287+00 by
Dan Lyke
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The Volokh Conspiracy: Surplus of Males and Runaway (with the Bride-Price) Brides. Looks at a book called Bare Branches: The Security Implications of Asia's Surplus Male Population, by Valerie Hudson and Andre den Boer (2004), and notes that in general as women become more rare, they're treated more and more like property.
From a Columbine entry that you probably can't read.
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#Comment Re: made: 2009-06-10 17:28:07.175269+00 by:
ebradway
Interesting that rarity entails property treatment. This is exactly the opposite
of Heinlein's proposition it The Moon is a
Harsh Mistress in which scarcity of women lead to a matriarchal society.
#Comment Re: made: 2009-06-10 17:33:01.951234+00 by:
Dan Lyke
Yeah, also makes you think some things about extrapolating this out to stuff like skilled labor...
#Comment Re: made: 2009-06-10 20:26:02.886114+00 by:
jeff
Or expanding ones military with 32M displaced men? It's probably a good thing that we're not currently fighting a war on the Korean peninsula. "Hordes of Chinese infantry" would have taken on an entirely new meaning.
#Comment Re: made: 2009-06-10 23:21:15.743293+00 by:
TheSHAD0W
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