Mr Right is no longer good enough for uptown girls

Sydney Morning Herald ^ | 3/25/04 | Miranda Devine

[qam1]

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Ping list for the discussion of the politics and social aspects that directly effects Generation-X (Those born from 1965-1982) including all the spending previous generations (i.e. The Baby Boomers) are doing that Gen-X and Y will end up paying for.

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[LaBradford22]

Okay, so we have Generation X, and Generation Y, and before long, we'll have Generation Z. What are these poor demographers going to do when the alphabet runs out on them? Are we going to have Generation AA?

[Post Toasties]

Sydney's bachelor hotspot, Salt found after crunching census data, is Pyrmont, with 1.8 never-married men for every woman. The equivalent suburb for single females is Rozelle, so Salt has dubbed the Anzac Bridge which connects the suburbs as the "Bridge of Love".

Which means that a lot of these women are divorcing and remarrying the same men other women divorced. Is their any way to re-adjust their narcisso-meters or are they stuck for life?

[Adam36]

Oh in NY, alot more single guys then single woman.
Where in other states its equal.

[TexanToTheCore]

With a 20% imbalance over such a large sample, it leds me to the conclusion that Australians have been aborting female children. The ratios should swing back and forth about 2% per generation.

[Landru]

...BTTT for later read.

[theFIRMbss]

>Today's bride has had at least a decade of comparison shopping to develop a discerning taste in men

Sleeping around for
ten years might "develop" more
than just a strange taste...

[nightdriver]

So what's new? In my elegible years, the ratio of elegible men to elegible women was 4.3 to 1.

I see 1.3 or 1.8 to 1 as an improvement from the mens' perspective.

[theFIRMbss]

>Is their any way to re-adjust their narcisso-meters or are they stuck for life?

The only reason
I'm not laughing harder is
I know about five

young women raising
kids on their own because they
wanted their "freedom"

and actively chose
to not get married. Their kids
can't live "normal" lives . . .

[Tax Government]

Generation Y's baby bust leads to a shortage of eligible women...

Does anybody wonder why there is a lot of subliminal support in this country for immigration of all kinds, but especially from Mexico and points south? You know, the homelands of Christina Aguilera, Thalia, Shakira and Paulina Rubio?

Foreign-born women, and women who are children of recent immigrants, are not nearly so infected with the social-climbing disease that many U.S. women have. You know the symptoms: willingness/eagerness to divorce, strong desire to work full-time outside the home, lack of commitment to marriage and family, raging competitiveness for dominance with the husband, membership in the democRat party. The list is long.

[theFIRMbss]

>Christian Conservative Cute and... Country!

Sometimes the food don't look the same on the plate as the menu's picture . . .

[Mr. Jeeves]

The "Top 5%" of men that these women are looking for are usually very good at identifying and avoiding neurotic females. There are going to be a lot of 45-year-old "quirkyalones" with six cats, purple hair, and public television bumper stickers on their used Volvos in about fifteen years.

Unfortunately, they will be a Democrat core constituency.

[Salgak]

Looks like Russian Mail-order Bride time.

I actually met one a a friend's 39th birthday party.

She would have met all but one of your criteria: she was Jewish, but so was her husband.

Intelligent, polite, drop-dead gorgeous, politically conservative, and utterly devoted to her husband and their new son.

After that experience, SEVERAL of the single guys there have started corresponding with Russian women.

I'm lucky, **MY** wife was country to start with (and she gets along quite well with Svetlana as well. . .it's as if they were old friends)

[JoeFromSidney]

Back in the '60s I worked for a guy who said he was looking for the less than perfect woman who was willing to settle for the less than perfect man. I have no idea whether he ever got married.

[Steely Glint]

No Mister Right for them? Sad.

Me, I married Miss Right...the only bad news was that her first name turned out to be Always. :)

[qam1]

Women are usually always higher in population because they live longer, Plus Don't forget there is a significant amount of women who prefer to be the "Other Woman" so that throws the Ratio off.