Salon.com > sex selective elimination http://www.salon.com Sun, 19 May 2013 01:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Sex (ratios) and the single girl http://www.salon.com/2013/01/16/sex_ratios_and_the_single_girl/ http://www.salon.com/2013/01/16/sex_ratios_and_the_single_girl/#comments Wed, 16 Jan 2013 22:57:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13173362 Amid all of the current Internet chatter about the perils of being a single woman, a recent piece in the New York Times shines a light on a different, more sinister, hazard.

The Times' John Eligon reported on a small oil town in North Dakota where “men are many, and women are hounded." The oil-rich pastures of Williston have attracted hordes of young men to work the lucrative, labor-intensive jobs that get the wells flowing. As a result, there are 1.6 single men for every single woman in Williston, a gender ratio that has created a stifling and dangerous environment.

According to Eligon:

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