Survey: More single guys than girls?

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<p>I'm just realized that at CC there hasn't been a girl who started a thread asking about how to hit on guys or being tired of being single. It's all guys who started such threads. I'm just curious if on CC and in general... are there more single guys than single women? (It is possible even if 50% of the population are male since women might go out with players... eg. 1 guy 3 girls)... </p>

<p>So if you want just post your status and gender... </p>

<p>M/Single</p>

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<p>It is exceedingly rare for a college-aged male to actually have the capability or patience to have multiple long term relationships at the same time. So I disagree. The number of single guys and single girls is pretty much equal, IMO.</p>

<p>But let’s not overlook sex. Let’s face it, the way our society is structured currently, the more capable guys have a bigger proportion of the girls.</p>

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<p>I agree with parker’s second part, that guys are pretty much looking to get some action and girls look for quality, just in general…and results in the “higher quality” guys making up for the lack of action that the lower quality guys don’t get. So a lower quality guy is screwed or has more difficulty, thus making a post on a college forum.</p>

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<p>i also agree with parker & darko. </p>

<p>Plus, if a guy is born ugly, its harder for him to hide/cover/transform their faces than it is for girls, who can do more with looks since we can have basically fake everything: hair, nails, TOENAILS, boobs, tans. guys can of course also have fake hair, tans, etc., but its not usually considered manly or whatever bs.</p>

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<p>^true, but a guy can overcome bad looks with a good personality/game/whatever more successfully than an unattractive girl.</p>

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<p>@lost4words. The end justifies the means. If one has to sacrifice one’s manliness to obtain chicks, then so be it. Plus, who can tell?</p>

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<p>I think the lack of threads from girls is due to the fact that a girl can talk about being single with her girl friends, while I’m pretty sure most guys would laugh at a friend who said “Oh my God, I’m so tired of being single.”
There’s probably not too much of a difference in how many are single.</p>

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<p>Not true. An ugly guy can get a hot girl much easier than an ugly girl a hot guy. But an ugly girl can just be slutty and she’ll find a man.</p>

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<p>^
Yeah the problem is that all guys ask girls out first. But then since few girls ask guys out… ugly girls who ask guys out have less competition than ugly guys asking out girls.</p>

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<p>I would guess that there are more single guys than girls at HS/college age simply because women go for older and therefore when they come into age and starts dating more seriously at around 18-20 they date people around 20-24 which are at the end spectrum of the college career.</p>

<p>Also at that age there are more males than females, the only reason there are more females in total is because men lives shorter on average.</p>

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<p>Good point</p>

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<p>there are equal amounts of single guys and girls. you only see more posts from guys because guys need sex a lot more than girls do</p>

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<p>Klockan there are not more males than females at any age. That just doesn’t make logical sense.
There may be more males than females on this board, or may be more single guys, but there are never more guys than girls in total.
Unless you’re only counting the population of an Engineering school or something similar.</p>

<p>I do agree that girls date older guys, and guys tend to gravitate towards younger girls because of the commitment/maturity levels.
So it might be logical to say that there are more freshman/sophomore single guys because they usually date younger and there aren’t many younger girls around, not counting long distance relationships.</p>

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Well you got to keep in mind its entirely possible that men would tend to have sexual affairs with multiple women. Does the term player ring any bells?</p>

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Wrong, there are born more males than females, roughly 5% more. And why wouldn’t that make sense? Why would it have to be 50/50? We aren’t 100% equal no matter what you think.
This graph shows how the male to female ratio varies with age:
<a href=“http://nationalatlas.gov/articles/people/IMAGES/gender-fig3.gif[/url]”>http://nationalatlas.gov/articles/people/IMAGES/gender-fig3.gif&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>^</p>

<p>But remember probably 10-15% of the male population is either: gay, trans, or asexual. I’m not dissing them but just saying that sure there might be say 105 guys versus 100 females… but how many of them are actually going for girls? But maybe 10% of girls are also not heterosexual… so their sexuality is more relevant than the actually population</p>

<p>In the end, the ratio of STRAIGHT guys versus S girls will depend more than fluctuations in sexuality rather than births.</p>

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<p>F/single
ratio is now 1/1</p>

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<p>Maybe I’m looking at that chart wrong, but to me it looks as if Male to Female starts off equal at the under 5, then by the 15 to 24 range, it’s a 50.2 F to 49.8 M ratio.</p>

<p>Why would there be 5% more males than females born if they’re equal in the under 5 on that chart? Is there a mass death of males before the age of 5?</p>

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<p>You are looking at the chart wrong, it depicts the male to female ratio for two different years. 105 means that there are 105 males for each 100 females, and 100 means that there are 100 males for each 100 females. As you can see in the early ages the stats are the same for both years but if you look at the higher ages the males have a little bit better stats than before. </p>

<p>And yeah if you look at these stats ~5% of males die before they reach 30.</p>

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<p>So about 1 in 20 males die before 30? For some reason… I find that a little hard to believe. I wonder what this is from? It can’t be health issues, right? Since I would think people start dying from those in their older years. </p>

<p>Anyways, I’d say the proportion of single males to single females is about the same. The way they approach it though makes it seem imbalanced. There are plenty of single females around, but many of them stay under the radar (remember, girls have some weird thing about not being the pursuer). Also, guys have to do more active work when it comes to these things; they’ve got to be “the hunters,” so when they fail, they tend to start doing things like making threads on CC. Girls are more passive. </p>

<p>As mentioned before, I think the same few guys are usually with multiple girls, leaving more guys out in the dust. This isn’t a perfect example, but at dances I’ve been to, during slow songs guys would have to go up to girls and ask for a dance. So some guys are shy and don’t ask anyone all night to dance, while there are guys who go around dancing with numerous girls. My friends at these dances are usually girls, and they tend to be satisfied because at least one guy has asked them to dance (the same guys that have asked various other girls). This leaves the majority of girls satisfied while many guys aren’t getting any at all (and thus they get depressed and go on CC).</p>

<p>Also, is it possible that, maybe, girls don’t care as much as guys do? Guys factor this stuff into their pride.</p>

<p>And…this is more off topic and just a personal note of mine…is it just me, or do girls have much more unrealistic views of their “dream guy” than men do of women?</p>