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Oodles of Single Men May Not Be as Awesome as You'd Think
The Slate ^ | Wednesday, Jan. 16, 201 | Amanda Marcotte

Posted on 01/19/2013 7:44:27 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

Young, single ladies: America is worried about you. You just keep going to college, moving to urban areas after graduation and finding yourselves outnumbering, sometimes dramatically, the available men of your demographic. How will you ever get married? How will you ever go from being the subject of one kind of magazine cover to being the subject of another?

Clearly the best thing to do is stay back on the farm to live in a male-dense rural area, where the marriageable boys are there for your picking. Or it was, until Tuesday, when an enterprising New York Times journalist named John Eligon reported on a small oil town in North Dakota—“An Oil Town Where Men Are Many, And Women Are Hounded,” per the headline. There are 1.6 single men for every single woman in Williston, and Eligon found out that the lopsided gender ratio is less a great opportunity for the ladies than it is a stifling and scary environment.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amandamarcotte; anticapitalism; bigoil; culturewar; dating; feminazism; genderwars; johnedwards; marcotte; pravdamedia; relationships; savethemales; singles
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To: Mr. K

I agree. You are funny. Manly men just are. There is no fashion magazine or someone telling them to “hang” something over their shoulder. Please I just need a real man not a prop.


21 posted on 01/19/2013 8:13:39 PM PST by therut
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To: Mr. K

“What the hell would a guy be doing with a sweater in the first place”

Using it to conceal a handgun in a ‘business casual’ work environment of course. No, it won’t ever be “draped”. Sport coats, photog vests, and untucked shirts just don’t work in the back office.


22 posted on 01/19/2013 8:15:31 PM PST by ctdonath2 (End of debate. Your move.)
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To: MinorityRepublican; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows
This year it's scarves, boys! (Fashion's catching up with Keith Richards.)


23 posted on 01/19/2013 8:17:59 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: MinorityRepublican
...enterprising New York Times journalist...

These words set off my fake news/plagerism alerts in my head. A New York writer goes to red North Dakota and all he finds is evil? How...expected. This is like the fake news story, by whom I can't remember, about republican delegates who abused women at the 2000 convention. (Jayson Blair?)

Between giving the benefit of the doubt to North Dakotans or New York Times journalists, my instinct is to go with the North Dakotans.

24 posted on 01/19/2013 8:17:59 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: null and void

Sad but true.


25 posted on 01/19/2013 8:18:08 PM PST by ReformationFan
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To: MinorityRepublican

This is just so much drama and crap about Williston. The boom will end and things will change again. Not worth writing about.

It is all only unusual to the creeps who think milk comes from a carton and there are far more of those now. Good, they’ll die off first.


26 posted on 01/19/2013 8:20:47 PM PST by Sequoyah101
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To: MinorityRepublican
Not Jason Blair, Stephen Glass
27 posted on 01/19/2013 8:20:58 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Mike Darancette

28 posted on 01/19/2013 8:23:51 PM PST by itsahoot (MSM and Fox free since Nov 1st. If it doesnÂ’t happen here then it didn't happen.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

thanks MinorityRepublican.

College Girls Looking for “Sugar Daddies” Abound
kidfocused | 1-2013 | Julie Samrick
Posted on 01/19/2013 8:08:01 PM PST by doug from upland
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2979978/posts


29 posted on 01/19/2013 8:25:47 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Haggis? Really? Again? So soon?)
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To: Mr. K

I misread this: I thought it meant that the man was to thoughtfully drape a lady’s sweater over her shoulders. Men used to do things like that when ladies were cold. I remember my father doing that for my mother and my grandfather doing it for my grandmother (they still adored each other after fifty years).


30 posted on 01/19/2013 8:27:10 PM PST by ottbmare (The OTTB Mare)
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To: Jim from C-Town
Accent pillows are these:

I learned this cuz Matt Lauer knew what they were, and every single other guy on the news set had NO IDEA.

I think this means we're both straight and we'd be OK in North Dakota... ;)

31 posted on 01/19/2013 8:27:26 PM PST by gaijin
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To: gaijin
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33 posted on 01/19/2013 8:29:41 PM PST by baddog 219
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To: ReformationFan
misandrist

OOOO, OOO, OOO! A new word!! Misandrist! I am going to use that a lot! I really had never heard it before.

34 posted on 01/19/2013 8:29:52 PM PST by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: null and void
SSSSCARY...!!!

Sounds like steam escaping!

/ Blazing Saddles reference

35 posted on 01/19/2013 8:33:10 PM PST by Fast Moving Angel (A moral wrong is not a civil right: No religious sanction of an irreligious act.)
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To: Fast Moving Angel

Sorry, I don’t know beans about Blazing Saddles..


36 posted on 01/19/2013 8:40:57 PM PST by null and void (Gun confiscation enables tyranny. Don't enable Tyranny)
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To: Colorado Doug

http://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/misandrist

It’ll come in handy the way things are going in our nation.


37 posted on 01/19/2013 8:45:23 PM PST by ReformationFan
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To: null and void

“Where are the white women at?”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJkHykGRXrw


38 posted on 01/19/2013 8:48:03 PM PST by ReformationFan
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To: Mike Darancette

Its -4 in williston right now. Too cold for a motorhome. I can promise you a room for $600 a week


39 posted on 01/19/2013 9:04:20 PM PST by South Dakota (shut up and build a bakken pipe line)
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