New Orleans bereft of women

UPI ^ | 11/25/2005

[ncountylee]

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Women seem to have become a rare sight in many sections of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

At a bar in the French Quarter on a recent night, there was not a single unattached woman, observers said.

City officials guess New Orleans now has a population of 150,000 during the day and 75,000 at night after commuters have left, The Los Angeles Times reports.

Sally Forman, the mayor's press secretary, says: "There's this strange feeling that it's all men in town."

Part of the reason is that the wives and children of professional men are settled elsewhere until the end of the school semester, while the men work during the week and leave for the weekends.

Sociologist Carl Bankston III says the skewed male-female ratio is probably temporary but says the faster it changes, the better for the city.

"If people don't set up households, they're not setting up families, which means you don't have a permanent population or a permanent tax base," he said.

A 23-year-old male bar patron said: "I tell you what, if single women come down here, they'll find a lot of guys."

[Cagey]

So many beads.

[Poser]

Uh... Maybe I won't attend Mardi Gras this year.

[LdSentinal]

In unrelated news, Barney Frank announces he will attend the 2006 Mardi Gras.

[Paloma_55]

We should close N.O. down and stop building cities under the waterline.

It really bugs me to see the billions of tax $$$ that will go to preparing the flood basin for another big one.

[SampleMan]

I believe there is a long tradition of keeping womenfolk out of harm's way.

However, men could play victim here and offer up an alternative headline, "Women Abandon Men to Hard Job of Reconstruction.

[beyond the sea]

At a bar in the French Quarter on a recent night, there was not a single unattached woman

"unattached" --- the woman should have stuck to the bar.

[Psycho_Bunny]

So you can take a major North American city, add a little water and it will mysteriously turn into my bedroom?

[kipita]

Déjà vu……………

[No Blue States]

"Sally Forman, the mayor's press secretary, says: "There's this strange feeling that it's all men in town."

That would be worse than a cat 4 and looting.

[No Blue States]

LOL! Hey on the bright side they probably have beer..

[SteveMcKing]

"... they're not setting up families, which means you don't have a permanent population or a permanent tax base,"

How awful. Imagine a world without a "tax base" to support government bureaucracy.

You, your family - you are all a "tax base". And that's what really matters, isn't it?

[Cautor]

It's so full of queers I'm surprised they noticed.

[ncountylee]

You, your family - you are all a "tax base". And that's what really matters, isn't it?

BINGO!

[digger48]

Maybe San Fran can send 'em a busload of these....

[ARealMothersSonForever]

So you can take a major North American city, add a little water and it will mysteriously turn into my bedroom? 75,000 at night

Braggart.

[Smarti Pants]

Couldn't possibly be that "unattached women" want to be protected & there isn't anyone there who would do that?

How about the pickings there are pretty slim & why would we want to go there?

I know, how about we might want more than a having home in a septic sewers now there's a concept!

[Smarti Pants]

EWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[conservative barking moonbat]

Could be good news for san Francisco.
Bad news for Di-Fi and Pelosi.

[hardworking]

"Sally Forman, the mayor's press secretary, says: "There's this strange feeling that it's all men in town."

Honey, get used to it. After the Muslims take over, you and all the other females won't be seen again. Good prep for twenty years from now.