Time of your Life
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I know quite a few men that are now in their forties or fifties and that never got married. Strangely enough I never met even a single unmarried woman. I figured that this was probably a coincidence and that I just happened not to know any unmarried women, but when I talked to others about this I found out that many people observed the same thing with their acquaintances: tons of unmarried males, but no unmarried females. So I googled the phenomena and found the wikipedia article on human sex ratio here.
To summarize it, it says that for every 100 women there are about 105 males. Males do die sooner, but this doesn't really begin to affect the ratio until at a very high age. So basically this means that about 5% of the males will not be able to find a life partner, because of a lack of females.
To make this even more depressing, the men that are going to be left standing are probably the socially less adapted type, that is: the men on this forum.
Of course, I am not saying this to depress anyone, but it is actually bothering me quite much. There was some sort of comfort in the fact that for every man without a girlfriend, there was a woman without a boyfriend. The problem was then just to find a woman. The above invalidates that view entirely however and shows that if a man doesn't enter the game soon enough, the odds of finding a partner begin to drop dramatically. Hence, there are many unmarried men and virtually no unmarried women.
Feel free to share your thoughts about this, I'd love to hear how others think about the matter.
To summarize it, it says that for every 100 women there are about 105 males. Males do die sooner, but this doesn't really begin to affect the ratio until at a very high age. So basically this means that about 5% of the males will not be able to find a life partner, because of a lack of females.
To make this even more depressing, the men that are going to be left standing are probably the socially less adapted type, that is: the men on this forum.
Of course, I am not saying this to depress anyone, but it is actually bothering me quite much. There was some sort of comfort in the fact that for every man without a girlfriend, there was a woman without a boyfriend. The problem was then just to find a woman. The above invalidates that view entirely however and shows that if a man doesn't enter the game soon enough, the odds of finding a partner begin to drop dramatically. Hence, there are many unmarried men and virtually no unmarried women.
Feel free to share your thoughts about this, I'd love to hear how others think about the matter.
