Every time I see a one-girl-multiple-men book, I have THOUGHTS about what's happening in China right now with the gender gap. Also, apparently similar issues in India.
In-cel, or incel, short for involuntarily celibate. It's...a wonderful phrase. As in I'm positively gobsmacked that someone came up with this and then an entire movement's worth of people kept it going. Yeah, well, the perception of incel-ness apparently leads to more violence.
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SOMETIMES the authors will acknowledge that there's going to be issues when there's very few women and lots of men. Sometimes. But even then it's often used as a plot device rather than portrayed as the systemic horror it is.
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It's also disturbing how the "answer" to "shortage of women" is then "toxic hyper-presentation of masculinity". The article I was reading about how people have been reacting to the gender gap was devastating.
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Build a huge house to lure a bride! Do nothing but work all day, go "home" to a dorm room with 5 other men that's ....that just looks terribly depressing in how NOT a home it is...so you can save all your money to buy a wife.
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Woman who has seven sons (all naturally, so...) who spends a SHITTON of her time taking care of her husband and all her sons, all of whom live at home with her and presumably don't try to help with homemaking.
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It's ...just...depressing? Like, clearly, obvs if a virus ended up killing almost all the women of earth, it seems obvious that what would happen is that the remaining women would be snatched up by the rich, and kept in captivity to breed, with boys being aborted.
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Or if all the women DID die out, a huge percentage of the remaining population is just going to give up and die because there's no point to life anymore? (this is all going from off the article. I would hope this isn't the case, but....dude...)
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The article mentions that for a lot of these single men who have almost zero hope of luring a bride, they feel their life is meaningless. And I'm just ... NO, NO, GO OUT AND FORM A BROTHERHOOD. CREATE COMMUNITY, DAMMIT. JUST...LIVE!
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