Comments on: Sri Lanka Has One Million ‘Extra’ Women

By: shammi

shammi — Wed, 16 May 2012 11:59:44 +0000

You missed an apostrophe in girlfriends. Do we add it before or after the “s”?

By: magerata

magerata — Tue, 15 May 2012 02:28:57 +0000

Hey Zak, What did you use to measure, hope not your dip stick :)

By: magerata

magerata — Tue, 15 May 2012 02:28:00 +0000

I think I met some of those single women, when I came to SL with my family :). Pretty much most were introduced, with some ulterior motives. Lucky for me I carry my girlfriends photos on my iPhone and show them to everyone right away!

By: Zak

Zak — Mon, 14 May 2012 12:33:05 +0000

They should marry American men! The ladys of north America are of such low quality… :-(

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By: Jack Point

Jack Point — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 06:20:06 +0000

Pooja is bloody hot, unfortunately she is engaged and is mainly based in India so thats not an issue.

LD is very forgiving so you should be able to manage the one you need to watch is the Puppeteer….

By: pp

pp — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:55:48 +0000

we are already exporting them chavie. to the middle east mostly. have been for a while now.

By: shammi

shammi — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 03:40:02 +0000

Legalise polygamy? No way. Might even confound the problem if it led to more “eka gedara keama” style polygamy, as the law could not be passed in a discriminatory manner.
Making lesbianism more culturally acceptable, and legalising adoption of children for lesbian couples might be another way. Again, males will want the same rights.
I vote for importing a few stud males, better looking/more intelligent ones who could enrich/improve the gene pool, and holding them in a stable to monitor their reproductive health. Women who dont want the encumberance of a husband could pay for their services.

By: Rohan Samarajiva

Rohan Samarajiva — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:28:19 +0000

We don’t know if there is an actual problem until the census results are released. But if there is an actual shortage of men in the marriageable age groups, logically, there are three possible solutions:
1. Make being single a part of the culture; in vitro fertilization can address the needs of single women who want babies.
2. Legalize/restore polygamy. It was legal under Sinhala/Kandyan Law;
3. Encourage marriages with men from countries with a surplus of men. If India arouses one’s ire, one can always marry a Chinese (though the objections re female infanticide apply there too). According to the helpful map in the infographic, even Greenland is an option, though I think the number of Greenland males must be quite small. The general principle of marrying from countries where males outnumber females is what is important; not the country. I mentioned India because it is the closest.

The above three solutions are not mutually exclusive. But it seems to me the third is the easiest to implement.

By: Thulasi

Thulasi — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:17:42 +0000

OhmiGod!!! Sri Lankan women marry Indian men? Perish Forbid.

India is having a female shortage because they’ve been killing off all their baby girls – because of the dowry system. I sincerely hope the problem over there becomes so bad that the tide turns and the men are obliged to pay dowries.

Meanwhile ladies, don’t even consider marrying Indian men – They not only demand huge dowries, they will then burn you in “kitchen accidents” so that they can marry again and accumulate more dowry.

And even if they don’t, they have been brought up to think they are Gods, simply because they are males. They’ve been taught from early childhood to think they are ‘special’ because of their sex and to treat women like crap.

That’s a really sick and misogynistic culture which acts as if it’s bad luck if a girl is born in the household and mistreats the daughter in law who gives birth to a girl as if it’s all HER fault.

Their comeuppance for all this is long overdue – but it looks as if it’s finally here.

By: shammi

shammi — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:18:40 +0000

I’m right here already, but planning to lie low for a bit until you smooth things out with above ladies for me.

By: Jack Point

Jack Point — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 05:00:56 +0000

Thank you for those links, most helpful :D

I shall indeed compensate you, when you do come over to SL some time….

By: shammi

shammi — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:21:40 +0000

Having heard this mournful refrain since last year from someone who’s tall, dark and (self confessedly) handsome, I assume the problem is structural.
Here, let me help you out a bit.

http://magazine.lankahelp.com/2011/10/15/glamorous-stars-seeking-soul-mates/
Very pretty, that first one.

How about this one? Single, and comes highly recommended.
http://divine3.blogspot.com/

OK. I’m ready. I’ve got a helmet on for this one.
http://messiahofmadness.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/the-proposal/
You’ll have two whole years to get ready, unless you manage to snag one of the akkis.

And that was just from kottu. Remember I’ve put a lot of thought and effort in to this. Hope I will be suitably compensated if anything works out.

By: Jack Point

Jack Point — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 04:09:05 +0000

Dilroy, I think the answer to your question is “Yes”

By: the way of the dodo

the way of the dodo — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:39:45 +0000

i don’t think a gap of 1.1mn can be explain using the past conflicts in this country. i think we have lost a maximum of 150k people to all insurgencies.

By: Rohan Samarajiva

Rohan Samarajiva — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:19:54 +0000

You should go to the HIES (http://www.statistics.gov.lk/HIES/HIES2009_10FinalReport.pdf) and check out the actual numbers. The male-female imbalance is not markedly high in the Northern, Eastern, North Central and North Western provinces that bore the brunt of the war.

More interesting is the gender breakdown by age deciles that is not given in the HIES. The most reliable data on this will come when the census results are released. I am guessing the gender imbalance is most pronounced over 50 years, because women outlive men by 6-8 years now.

India has a shortage of women, we of men. If there is a real problem (we will not know until the Census is published) the logical solution is marriages across the border like Murali’s, but between Indian men and Sri Lankan women. This is how these imbalances are being dealt with in China; Chinese men are marrying Russian women (Russia has a surplus of women).

By: sach

sach — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 14:12:16 +0000

This is can lead to a population crisis in SL, which is less talked about even though this needs concern of the gov and social institutes. The gender imbalance that we see in the country today is a result of war. We had a war for 30 yrs and SL men have died in the war front. Also the JVP insurgencies in 70s and 80s lead to a huge human cost. The men in SL have been wasted in the war front.

We should legalise single parenting where even single women can adopt little children and raise them as thier kids. So that they would have someone to care for them in their old ages. Or we can have a system like sperm banks under strict regulation.

Another thing is having celibate monks in such a situation is not a good idea at all and with an emerging gay movement in SL society the problem of having less marriageable men can worsen.

By: Rukmani Devi

Rukmani Devi — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:09:08 +0000

@angel…like it :-)

By: dilroy

dilroy — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 06:53:00 +0000

In a twisted way Sri Lanka has been exporting women to the Middle East as “‘Maids”‘. Sadly nobody cares to find out how much they suffer just working hard to provide for their children, husbands, siblings & parents.

The only mention of this is when the annual budget is around the corner, when the gov is very proud to say that the biggest generator of foreign income $$$$ is our expatriates in the Middle East.

The new trend is to send the women to the Middle East and send the yound men to Korea!!! Great, only the old will remain in Sri Lanka, may be we could employ some expatriates to do work in Sri Lanka.

Strangly, why can’t the Gov. use all these people for the development of the country.

Is the Middle East and Korea the easy way to reducing the unemployment???

By: Angel

Angel — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 03:26:57 +0000

They are busy barbecuing Chavie’s sorry a**

By: Jack Point

Jack Point — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 02:07:27 +0000

I have the same bloody question. Where are they???

By: Chavie

Chavie — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:00:58 +0000

No dude, that’s the percentage of female heads of households who are above 40 years. :)

Also, nice work with the infographic Indi. Maybe we could export women like we exported tuskers in the ye olde days. ;) *gets barbecued alive by the feminists*

By: Binku

Binku — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:19:34 +0000

That’s what I thought too.

Oh, never mind. it says that 80% of them are over 40 years. :(

By: ppt

ppt — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:12:45 +0000

It’s the other way round dude… the question is, “where are all the single women”?