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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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1 posted on 01/19/2013 7:44:29 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Men who don’t thoughtfully drape their sweater over their shoulders...!

SSSCARY...!!!!

Men who don’t know what “accent pillows” are...!

SSSSCARY...!!!


2 posted on 01/19/2013 7:47:04 PM PST by gaijin
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To: MinorityRepublican

Business is booming! LOL

3 posted on 01/19/2013 7:49:52 PM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (IMPEACH OBAMA)
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To: gaijin

In my neck of the woods (Near SanFran)

Men who do thoughtfully drape their sweater over their shoulders...!

SSSCARY...!!!!

Men who do know what “accent pillows” are...!

SSSSCARY...!!!


4 posted on 01/19/2013 7:50:13 PM PST by null and void (Gun confiscation enables tyranny. Don't enable Tyranny)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Men are evil. Can’t Obama use an executive order to do something??


5 posted on 01/19/2013 7:51:19 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Nothing will change until after the war.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Amanda Marcotte also written that lesbian couples are better at bringing up kids.


6 posted on 01/19/2013 7:51:54 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: gaijin

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


7 posted on 01/19/2013 7:52:21 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: MinorityRepublican
"An Oil Town Where Men Are Many, And Women Are Hounded,” per the headline.

You get a few of your single girlfriends, a big motorhome and head for the oil patch. :)

8 posted on 01/19/2013 7:55:11 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Soylent Green is Boomers)
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To: gaijin

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


9 posted on 01/19/2013 7:57:42 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Liberal women couldn’t survive. Plus.....they’re humorless.


10 posted on 01/19/2013 7:58:00 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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Really? This article and the statement that essentially says children would be better off without having their fathers in their lives shows how misandrist she must be. God have mercy on any man who dates(or even worse, marries) her.


11 posted on 01/19/2013 7:58:53 PM PST by ReformationFan
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12 posted on 01/19/2013 7:59:24 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Jim from C-Town
All right, what is an accent pillow?

It's a special pillow designed for whacking people with too strong of an accent without hurting them. It's supposed to be used instead of the accent truncheon.

Glad to help clear things up! :)

13 posted on 01/19/2013 7:59:37 PM PST by VoiceOfBruck (#include <std.disclaimers>)
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To: gaijin

I figure Miss Marcotte’s “ideal male” would be one who could never possibly be interested in her or in any other female.


14 posted on 01/19/2013 8:00:31 PM PST by ReformationFan
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children would be better off without having their fathers in their lives

The proof is found in any welfare ghetto in the country.

Or any prison.

15 posted on 01/19/2013 8:01:22 PM PST by null and void (Gun confiscation enables tyranny. Don't enable Tyranny)
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To: gaijin

Why would you ‘drape’ a sweater over your shoulders, ‘thoughtfully’ or otherwise?

What the hell would a guy be doing with a sweater in the first place- his carharts all in the wash?


16 posted on 01/19/2013 8:02:14 PM PST by Mr. K (There are lies, damned lies, statistics, and democrat talking points.)
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To: VoiceOfBruck

POKE HIM WITH THE FLUFFY CUSHIONS!!


17 posted on 01/19/2013 8:04:00 PM PST by Mr. K (There are lies, damned lies, statistics, and democrat talking points.)
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To: null and void

That’s been one of the goals of feminism: turn the entire nation into a welfare ghetto where the natural family is destroyed and everyone’s dependent on the government.


18 posted on 01/19/2013 8:04:44 PM PST by ReformationFan
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To: MinorityRepublican

OH CRAP!!!!!! I must have a problem. I was born country and I have been too, lived in Big Cities. Prefer a rural man any day of the year.


19 posted on 01/19/2013 8:09:33 PM PST by therut
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I reckon they can check that one off on their to do list.


20 posted on 01/19/2013 8:11:55 PM PST by null and void (Gun confiscation enables tyranny. Don't enable Tyranny)
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