who has it easier?
on the one hand it seems that there are lots of single guys and not so many single girls despite the census reportings that the ratio is about 1:1 with possibly more guys... (that's just what i remember - i am fallible - justin feel free to check up on that). so by this argument it's generally easier for girls because they have choices.
but is having more choices easier? and since it seems that there are more single guys than girls, (i am in a skewed region) doesn't it feel worse for girls if they can't find a guy? it's like look how many there are and none of them fit... as opposed to guys who can say well there weren't that many to begin with no wonder none of them is right? in the former case (girl's), if you have this huge pool of guys and one after the other isn't working out it, you tend to start thinking there must be something seriously wrong with you. i guess the question boils down to is it better to have more chances of rejection or to have fewer chances period?
Posted by joann at March 18, 2004 10:23 AMWhew, from the title, I thought I was going to have to explain the difference between boys and girls to you again.. :)
Posted by: Irwando at March 18, 2004 11:02 AM"i guess the question boils down to is it better to have more chances of rejection or to have fewer chances period?"
Obviously its better to have women throwing themselves at you, rather than having to go around and picking from all the ones that no one else wants.
I saw 4 years of that at Hopkins (which had a male female ratio of 60/30 [sic])... and now in Silicon Valley where I see ok guys with fugly women because there are no choices.
It's like going to Fry's and finding all the instances of the product you want have white stickers on them.
Oops - am I comparing people to products again?
Posted by: Dennis at March 18, 2004 04:53 PMThere are 119 single men in their 20s for every 100 single women in their 20s.
Cities like Seattle that have a lot of technology companies will probably have this skewed even further, and if your social circles are based in one of those companies...
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2003/cb03-ff02.pdf
(it's the valentine's day press release about relationships!)