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Five Girls for Every Boy

In the International Herald-Tribune, there’s an article on the social situation in Beirut, where young women outnumber young men by a ratio of five to one. The sex ratio skew is the result of the dire employment situation in Lebanon: the educated and ambitious men to seek their fortunes abroad while the women stay home (apparently the guys who stay behind are the dolts, the shiftless and the local equivalent of Ned Flanders.)

The practical upshot of all this is that when the men come home, they return to “one of the world’s most aggressive cultures of female display”. Simply put, the entire place turns into Coyote Ugly.

Joey deVilla

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