You've Got Male: Amazon's Growth Impacting Seattle Dating Scene

reifman (786887) writes "San Francisco's gender imbalance is so bad that a startup recently proposed flying women in from New York City for dates. But, if you're a straight male thinking of moving to Seattle to work in technology, think again. Seattle's gender ratio is even more imbalanced and it's about to get much worse for men. Amazon is building out enough space to employ 5% of the city population and its workforce is 75 percent male. By the end of 2014, Seattle will have 130 single men for every 100 single women."

Comments

Re:We need to fix the root cause

[tysonedwards]

Perfect solution...

Tell little boys that they're pretty, and that they are a perfect little prince...

Hold boys beauty pageants and have them televised on the local PBS affiliates.

Ostracize them for wanting to play outside or participate in sports.

Tell them that one day if they try hard enough they too can marry someone rich and live happily ever after.

While we are at it, we need to get Disney to have a movie with a "prince" as the main character... They've already shown that they care about maintaining appropriate diversity with their last few films focusing on a black princess, and a ginger princess, and a chinese princess, and a native american princess, and an arab princess ... Where is the boy who gets his own "don't talk to strangers, unless they are hot!" storybook ending?

Re:you've got male

[wxjones]

Umm. I'm a physicist and we have more women than CS. I suspect you guys are just assholes.