2009-06-10 16:45:29.340287+02 by Dan Lyke 4 comments
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![[Wiki]](/adbanners/lookingglass.png){kind=small}
, 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.
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#Comment Re: made: 2009-06-10 19:28:07.175269+02 by: ebwolf
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 19:33:01.951234+02 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 22:26:02.886114+02 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.
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