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Shouldn't there be about as many highly eligible and appealing men as there are attractive, eligible women?

I read this sentence several times trying to undo the brain-fuck that it did to me. The internet is awash in balderdash, but when you come across a superbly brazen falsehood like this, your defenses tend to fall away.

Now--what and where are these allegedly existent, even numerous, women? The vast majority of women, at least 99 percent, have some combination of eating disorder [1], television-induced personality necrosis, age beyond or near-beyond the breeding years, "baggage" (children, alcoholism, etc), or straightforward ugliness.

[1] Not anorexia nervosa--the opposite.

Stay your bids, fair maidens, as you were. I give you our next chap, a gentlemen of highest rank:

The vast majority of women, at least 99 percent, have some combination of eating disorder [1], television-induced personality necrosis, age beyond or near-beyond the breeding years, "baggage" (children, alcoholism, etc), or straightforward ugliness.

Oh dear.

I don't think Gimein meant that too seriously. I assumed he was talking from the point of view of women who complain about the lack of eligible men.

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