From Why Boys Fail:
My commentary running today on the back cover of the Chronicle of Higher Education takes an unvarnished look at what can happen to the campus social scene when the female/male imbalance passes 60% female. That’s the gender imbalance campus admissions officers fear most, the threshold where you can feel a palpable difference on campus. What this means to the campus social scene is guaranteed to make parents of college-bound girls cringe a bit.
Moving past 60% at some point triggers what biologists refer to as the operational sex ratio, which in the animal kingdom refers to the changes in mating habits that occur when one sex outnumbers the other. Humans are not immune, including college campuses.
Download the article here. To sum it up: females in college are becoming even sluttier to win the attention of males because males are in short supply. Males know they are in demand, so they are taking advantage of this slutty behavior and are sleeping around more themselves. I guess it’s all fun and games until someone gets herpes.
UPDATE: In regards to this article, Eugene Volokh writes:
On the Other Hand, I ask apropos Todd’s post, if you’re an 18-year-old guy at a campus which is 61% women, and you’re still striking out, how bad must you be feeling?
Ouch. Or you are a woman who looks like Amy Winehouse.
- VWI
August 14, 2008 at 12:06 am |
“To sum it up: females in college are becoming even sluttier to win the attention of males because males are in short supply.”
The female-instigated, so-called anti-sexual harassment regulations on the typical college campus have also resulted in many more females in college becoming “even sluttier.” The typical female roaming the campus looooves the thrill of getting the sexual interest of the men around her, it’s in her nature. So, the more the men ignore her sexual come-ons the more the typical female strives to be the object of men’s sexual interest.
“Males know they are in demand, so they are taking advantage of this slutty behavior…”
“Males… are taking advantage,” you say that like it’s a bad thing. Just look around you, VWI. Those females are soliciting sexual attention from men. Those females want it bad. Feminism, you’ll remember, is all about giving females what they want. (Consistency of principles has never been a feminist virtue.)
“I guess it’s all fun and games until someone gets herpes.”
Uh huh. And today’s college females are a cesspool of sexually transmitted diseases.
August 14, 2008 at 12:42 pm |
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