This is actually kind of LOL-y.  

World:  India…what are you doing?  What’s that behind your back?
India:  What?  That?  Oh that’s nothing.  ::drops satchel on the floor, tries to slide it backwards with a foot::
World:  What are you hiding?
India:  Hiding?  Why would we be hiding anything?  ::kicks satchel down the stairs to the basement::
World:  I know you’re hiding something.  You’re acting all suspicious.
India:  Pfft.  You’re crazy.  ::puts big ass padlock on basement door::  Here, have some of my delicious tandoori chicken.

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10:34 am  •  12 July 2012  •   Let's talk about what you think.
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This is heartbreaking.

A few weeks ago, I wrote a light-hearted entry about the surplus of young men in Asia and how it could possibly lead to another World War.  Most of my energies were focused toward China, but an article I just read has put the spotlight on India.  India (and, to be fair, most cultures the world over at some point in history) has a long past of favoring boys over girls.  The two main reasons for this favoritism boil down to security and money.

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(Source: MSNBC)

3:13 pm  •  5 May 2011  •   Let's talk about what you think.
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Because they have too many men.  So let’s break this up into two parts: Why does China have so many men?  And why does that mean something bad is about to pop off?

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It is raining men over there.  (Holler)

As far as I know, in the States the ratio of men to women is about equal.  Or there are more women because their life expectancy is longer.  Either way, we don’t have a whole lot of extra dudes just running around everywhere.  And everybody is gay now anyway so there’s that whole thing.

But in Asia there are about 100 million more men than women.  Some of that can be attributed to the fact that the mortality rate for women is lower.  Men are more likely to die from stupid Man Shit like stabbing or a car accident or showing your friends how cool you are by jumping from this roof to that one.  But missing.  

But an often-overlooked factor: men are more economically viable and (still!) more valued.  Women are more likely to have lower-paying jobs and there’s the risk that they will get pregnant early and turn into baby factories.  Every young couple still hopes to have a son as opposed to a daughter, even going so far as to abort female fetuses once gender is determined in the womb.  And you know the (secret) horror stories about girl babies being straight up killed or abandoned.  

End result: there are a lot of dudes in Asia.  Especially China where there’s an expected surplus of 22 million males in the 20-50 age range.

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So China is about to start a war probably.

Going back in time and looking at other areas of the world that have stumbled into a surplus of young men reveals a pattern: throughout history that overabundance of testosterone and urge to do stupid Man Shit leads to imperialism and wars.

• 16th Century Europe: Let’s go find undiscovered lands to conquer.
• Japan, Early 20th Century: Imperialism!!!!!
• El Salvador, Lebanon, Algeria—Cold War Era: bloody revolutions.
• Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq: Current Islamist extremism.

See?

When dudes don’t have bitches they get stitches.  OK, that rhyme is a stretch, but forreal, China (and India) are probably about to release some tension on some unsuspecting country during this generation.  Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Or.

Maybe all the extras can just be gay.

Holler (again).

(Source: Newsweek)

1:52 pm  •  7 March 2011  •   Let's talk about what you think.
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