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

Posted by timothy on from the truth-in-action dept.

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."

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  1. Sounds like a Marketing opportunity ladies! by AutodidactLabrat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Tell me ladies, are you not very attractive, given to big glasses and serious introspection?
    COME TO SILICON VALLEY, learn useless coding techniques, give out buggy code and ask the nerdiest soon-to-be-billionaire to help you grow in the profession.
    After the divorce, you won't ever have to work again!

  2. Re:you've got male by misexistentialist · · Score: 5, Funny

    Give every programmer a secretary?

  3. Already mostly debunked... by thatseattleguy · · Score: 5, Informative
    The Seattle Times has already debunked this, pointing out that the author(*) of that original article coflated two data sets that used completely different methodologies for the "number of single men" metric and so cannot be compared. Not that that will make any difference; I sense this will have the same life of its own as the "chances of a woman getting married after 40 are worse than that of her getting killed by a terrorist" meme that went around a decade or so ago, because it provides a convenient external explanation for a wholly internal failure.
    .

    /tsg/

    (*) Said author of the original debunked article also has the same user name as the submitter here - such a coincidence! I also note his last Slashdot submission was the also-debunked "OMG! Skydiver catches meteor falling on camera!" thing that was proven false a few days later. The Force is not strong with this one, fellow Jedi...

  4. Re:We need to fix the root cause by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    My older daughter wants to be a princess when she grows up. My attempt to steer her into mathematics is so far a failure. I still have hope for my younger daughter. I've taken away her dolls and replaced them with legos and erector sets. She cries about it and says she hates me. I guess she just doesn't understand I'm liberating her from the Patriarchy.

  5. Re:But the real question is.. by harvestsun · · Score: 5, Funny

    1,300,000,000 men to every 1,000,000,000 women!
    That's three hundred million men!
    BIG NUMBERS BETTER.

  6. Re:But the real question is.. by immaterial · · Score: 5, Funny

    1.3 men for every woman. Of course, the women see through this - the extra 0.3 he's claiming is typical male exaggeration.

  7. Irony by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    A company called Amazon has a mostly male work force.