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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