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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