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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amandamarcotte; anticapitalism; bigoil; culturewar; dating; feminazism; genderwars; johnedwards; marcotte; pravdamedia; relationships; savethemales; singles
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To: Jim from C-Town
All right, what is an accent pillow? At first I thought it said accident pillow. I don’t know what that is either.

Accent pillows are used as decorations on sexual sofas.

41 posted on 01/19/2013 9:32:13 PM PST by Bernard Marx
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To: Bernard Marx

In other words, a pillow that spends nights on the floor.


42 posted on 01/19/2013 9:49:42 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: reg45

They have other uses too.


43 posted on 01/19/2013 9:56:34 PM PST by Bernard Marx
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To: Jim from C-Town
All right, what is an accent pillow? At first I thought it said accident pillow. I don’t know what that is either.

I believe it's those pillows that women "decorate" a sofa with that I throw into the corner to get them out of the way. :p

44 posted on 01/19/2013 10:03:08 PM PST by upsdriver ( Palin/West '16)
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To: baddog 219

Hey, don’t knock Tampax. It’s gotten me through some difficult periods.


45 posted on 01/19/2013 10:06:24 PM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Tzar

I have no figures or studies to support my claim but I would bet the menfolk of Williston, ND, would be more likely to support the womenfolk being in possession of a firearm for self-protection than the average Brooklyn-male would be.


46 posted on 01/19/2013 10:11:44 PM PST by ReformationFan
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To: upsdriver

“I believe it’s those pillows that women “decorate” a sofa with that I throw into the corner to get them out of the way.”

You big silly! There should be enough accent pillows on the furniture that you have to sit on the floor in the lotus position while making “Ommmmmm” noises.

My wife really gets p!ssed when I “rearrange” her accent pillows so that I have a place to sit.


47 posted on 01/19/2013 10:37:49 PM PST by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED)
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To: MinorityRepublican


48 posted on 01/19/2013 11:17:37 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: MinorityRepublican
For decades I have seen in the media stories about how single women outnumber men blah blah blah. Why is it then that men always have to ask for numbers and pursue women etc.. If the numbers were in the men's favor then women would be the ones asking for numbers etc. Also go to any bar and there are 50 men there and 3 women. so the media lies again

I'd say that every single women is being pursued or asked out by about a 100 men. yeah sure the numbers are in the men's favor the media says.

50 posted on 01/20/2013 12:57:10 AM PST by Democrat_media (media makes mass shooters household names to create more & take our guns)
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To: MinorityRepublican

51 posted on 01/20/2013 1:04:44 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: 43north

My big dog likes to chew those little pillows my wife puts on the couch.
She gets mad. My wife, I mean.


52 posted on 01/20/2013 1:08:04 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: MinorityRepublican
Where's the barf alert?

Oh, it's slate, never mind.

53 posted on 01/20/2013 2:15:56 AM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux)
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To: gaijin

Thanks a lot pal. Now that I know what accent pillows are, that must make me one them there metersectules. (snicker)


54 posted on 01/20/2013 4:03:11 AM PST by driftless2
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To: MinorityRepublican

The author once worked for Silky Pony.

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/marcotte/index


55 posted on 01/20/2013 4:03:53 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Amanda, shut up and get me a beer!


56 posted on 01/20/2013 4:19:48 AM PST by metesky (Brethren, leave us go amongst them! - Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond, The Searchers)
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To: Jim from C-Town

“All right, what is an accent pillow? At first I thought it said accident pillow. I don’t know what that is either.”

An “accent” pillow is decorative. An “accident” pillow is absorbent. It’s an important distinction.


57 posted on 01/20/2013 5:11:47 AM PST by mrs. a (It's a short life but a merry one...)
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To: Jim from C-Town

All right, what is an accent pillow? At first I thought it said accident pillow. I don’t know what that is either.
-——————————————————————————————Accent pillow I am familiar with, being married. I still can’t put them in the right place though. But the sweater draped over the shoulders? Fill me in on that one. Probably a demographic (old person) and geographic (southeast) limitation on my part.


58 posted on 01/20/2013 5:17:38 AM PST by bytesmith
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To: MinorityRepublican

This Kaelling is shouting at us and it’s all a lie. Read it carefully and you’ll see she’s just making it all up.


59 posted on 01/20/2013 5:19:25 AM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: itsahoot
That looks like Burkburnett’s Main Street circa 1916.
60 posted on 01/20/2013 6:36:16 AM PST by vetvetdoug
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