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"Jpg." - Hank Hill
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http://time.com/dateonomics/

At first glance, the state of Utah—60 percent Mormon and home of the LDS church—looks like the wrong place to study what I like to call the man deficit. Like several other western states, Utah actually has more men than women. Utah’s ratio of men to women across all age groups is the fifth highest in the nation. But lurking beneath the Census data is a demographic anomaly that makes Utah a textbook example of how shifting gender ratios alter behavior. The LDS church actually has one of the most lopsided gender ratios of any religion in the United States.

“There are so many options for the men, it’s no wonder it’s hard for them to settle down,” said Deena Cox, a single, 34-year-old office manager who lives in Salt Lake City.

One fact that becomes apparent when studying the demographics of religion is that it is almost always the women who are more devout. Across all faiths, women are less likely than men to leave organized religion. According to the Pew Research Center, 67 percent of self-described atheists are men. Statistically speaking, an atheist meeting may be one of the best places for single women to meet available men.

Due to men’s generally higher rates of apostasy, it makes sense that the modern LDS church, like most religions, would have slightly more women than men. The Utah LDS church was in fact 52 percent female as recently as 1990. Since 1990, however, the Mormon gender gap in Utah has widened dramatically—from a gender ratio of 52:48 female to male in 1990 to 60:40 female to male in 2008, according to a study coauthored by ARIS researchers Rick Phillips, Ryan Cragun, and Barry Kosmin. In other words, the LDS church in Utah now has three women for every two men.

The sex ratio is especially lopsided among Mormon singles. Many individual LDS churches—known as “wards”—are organized by marital status, with families attending different Sunday services from single people. Parley’s Seventh, one of Salt Lake City’s singles wards, had 429 women on its rolls in 2013 versus only 264 men, according to an article in the Salt Lake Tribune newspaper.

Kelly Blake* is painfully aware of the horrible odds. A single Mormon in her late thirties, Blake is a reporter for a Salt Lake City television station. When Blake attends singles events for Mormons, she said there are often two women for every one man. As a result, Blake rarely meets suitable men in these settings and often winds up spending most of her time chatting with other women. “I’ll go on a singles cruise and come away with no dates but all these incredible new girlfriends,” Blake 
told me.

The lopsided numbers encourage Mormon men to hold out for the perfect wife, Blake said. “I call it the paradox of choice,” she explained. “For men, there are so many choices that choices are not made. The dream for the Mormon man is to get married and have six kids. As he ages, his dream never changes. But when you’re a thirty-seven-year-old woman, you’ve already aged out of that dream.”
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STEM Beardo: Look who's come crawling back
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le_nelson_mandela_face posted:

Statistically speaking, an atheist meeting may be one of the best places for single women to meet available men.


Also topping the list:

  • Video game store
  • Illegal child pornography manga reading club
  • The home of a rhizzone poster
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One cultural by-product of the Shidduch Crisis that has not been hushed up is the ever-larger dowries that Orthodox brides and their families are now expected to pay for the privilege of getting married. These dowries are financial promises made by the bride’s parents to help support the young family for the three or four or however-long-it-takes years that their future son-in-law may spend studying at a Jewish seminary. The fact that these dowries keep increasing demonstrates both the market power men possess as well as the desperation felt by young women and their parents. “It was never like this before,” said Salamon. “There was always a dowry, but it was pillowcases and things of that nature—not $50,000.”
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*mel brooks voice* oy! we can't give 'em away!
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The Summer 2013 issue of Jewish Action, the official magazine of the Modern Orthodox umbrella organization Orthodox Union, included an essay by Rabbi Lawrence Kelemen, a well-known Jewish scholar and lecturer. Kelemen told the story of his attempt to arrange a marriage for his daughter: “When I contacted the head of a prestigious American yeshiva to ask if he might have a shidduch for my daughter, he asked me ‘what level boy’ I was interested in. Unsure what he meant, I asked for clarification. ‘Top boys go for $100,000 a year, but we also have boys for $70,000 a year and even $50,000 a year.’ He said that if I was ready to make the commitment, he could begin making recommendations immediately.
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cheeky nato's
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it's cool when you can identify the op of a thread from peripheral vision of the title alone ... good scrollfeel ... laughs ...
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Heeeey sexy lady op op op oopa gangnam style
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i remember on SA there was an ask/tell thread by someone who left the satmar community and it ended with people who were still in the community buying accounts to harass her and threaten her parents, and the thread got taken over by a secret atheist in the community
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Mike Nelson here.
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women aren't always "more devout". that's offensive and creates a hierarchy of being. obviously women have complementary but equal roles, any child could tell you that.
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Not Your S.H.I.E.L.D.
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One fact that becomes apparent when studying the demographics of religion is that it is almost always the women who are more devout.



lol someone tell this virgin thats NOT a stigmata!

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even under goatsteinian standards i don't see women not coming out ahead in any kind of reasonable comprehensive comparison, the fuckin military alone. bring back roseweird
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Maybe not related, but men are far more likely than women to be autistic.
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thirdplace posted:

even under goatsteinian standards i don't see women not coming out ahead in any kind of reasonable comprehensive comparison, the fuckin military alone. bring back roseweird


+5 ally points to you

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getfiscal posted:

women aren't always "more devout". that's offensive and creates a hierarchy of being. obviously women have complementary but equal roles, any child could tell you that.


What are the complementary roles to gestation, birthing, or nursing?

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swirlsofhistory posted:

getfiscal posted:

women aren't always "more devout". that's offensive and creates a hierarchy of being. obviously women have complementary but equal roles, any child could tell you that.

What are the complementary roles to gestation, birthing, or nursing?


touching yourself at night

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Women are extremely fail. Lets be honest.
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Keven posted:

Women are extremely fail. Lets be honest.



and yet approximately 100% of people with fail aids are men (source: this forum)

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Keven posted:

Women are extremely fail. Lets be honest.



this is true, since i live every aspect of my life by the guidelines of scientific marxism-leninism and yet i've never had a good relationship this means all women are trots and very fail.

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also im gay
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ilmdge posted:

Maybe not related, but men are far more likely than women to be autistic.



err isnt that because autism is defined in masculine terms, which leaves many female autists undiagnosed?

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App Developer/Libertarian/Dad
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End sexism, give more females autism!! Goal is 50% female attendance at midnight showings of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, si se puede!!
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YUNG JIRO AKA SHOWA STUNNA AKA
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Good to see that Sam Hydes back
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Poronto
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there are literally no women here anymore. this is a fest for barelyclosets
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Not Your S.H.I.E.L.D.
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TG posted:

Keven posted:

Women are extremely fail. Lets be honest.

and yet approximately 100% of people with fail aids are men (source: this forum)



oh nice, "failAIDS is a gay disease". enjoy your ban