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Envisioning a not-so unlikely scenario (given all that's happening with Trump, Russia, North Korea etc...) where a biological disease wipes out a small town in somewhere like the US or UK and only 20 young white women between 15-25 are left along with 1 boy who's is aged 18, what would the gender dynamics be?
No, it's beyond unlikely.
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Assuming that infrastructure doesn't collapse instantaneously (food in stores remains fresh, electricity runs) and the town does not receive any more inhabitants coming to rescue or settle there, how would more than a dozen women and only a single male cope?
A large-scale die-off means that the social fabric would be gutted, which means that the intricate industrial system would fail as many of its maintainers are dead.
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I know from evolutionary biology females are more important in reproduction than males (1 man can impregnate 10 women but not vice versa) and with this situation, the group could theoretically survive the apocalyptic scenario but I'm more focused on how this society would function with 'roles'. I assume that those who consider post-apocalyptic scenarios rarely focus on how massive gender differences specifically with a deficiency in males impacts on roles.
Or, they'd just hop in a vehicle (there would be plenty lying around, and regular gasoline won't go over for a year or so, diesel much longer) and drive to the next small - or large - town where the sexual disparity doesn't exist (because, statistically, it won't).
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Am I wrong to believe that the females would be the 'dominant' ones in this group not just for their numbers but for their desires and ability to gather resources? People say the women would elect the male as their leader and submit to him but if he refused to 'man up' and either provide them with their sexual, romantic and intimate needs then they would coerce him with loss of basic needs and physical discipline ? Could one scrawny 5ft 5in 18yr old boy overpower 20 girls who are mostly same and and height but have athletic skills along with street smarts ?
Again... you think the electrical grid is going to be up and functioning, yet people will be stranded in a small town... why, precisely?
Nothing about this scenario is remotely plausible.
A large-scale die-off means that the social fabric would be gutted, which means that the intricate industrial system would fail as many of its maintainers are dead.
Or, they'd just hop in a vehicle (there would be plenty lying around, and regular gasoline won't go over for a year or so, diesel much longer) and drive to the next small - or large - town where the sexual disparity doesn't exist (because, statistically, it won't).
Again... you think the electrical grid is going to be up and functioning, yet people will be stranded in a small town... why, precisely?
Nothing about this scenario is remotely plausible.
You seem to have misunderstood my post.
This was NOT about the GLOBE but a SINGLE CITY.
Assuming that the power could be kept on for 6 months to a year, how would a scenario with 1 petite black male and 20 young white women between 16-30 pan out.
Sexually speaking, if the kid gets 'too excited' and tries some frotteurism or sexual assault on the hot girls, would the group as a whole punish him with violence and/or ostracism or give into him?
If they want to repopulate Earth it would probably go badly.
If they just want to live their lives and the bro is forced to be among them, I think he'd have a pretty easy time if he actually falls in love with one woman. The rest of the group could learn to satisfy their sexual urges the way straight women without a man have been for thousands of years. Lol.
Regardless of gender dynamics, they'd all be dead soon enough. Humans generally lack the skills today to survive on their own with such a reduced population numbers. Note that's not condemning humanity - it's simply a fact because of the highly specialized roles in which we must all operate.
As for who's in charge, if they wanted any hope of surviving, they'd pick rational leaders, skin color and gender be damned. Unfortunately, they'd have to be really desperate - or smarter than average - to put the usual stupidity, assumptions, and bigotry behind them to act on that concept.
Finally, when it comes to sex, yeah, it might sound like fun at first to have 20 women to choose from, but does it really play out that way? I mean, it's not going to be much fun at all with the whole apocalypse thing going on, and, honestly, while everyone loves portraying men as dogs who just want to hump things, if the guy in question is actual MAN - or at least wants to be one - he'd end up with an emotional bond to only a few of the women, even if he feels a duty to sire children with all of them to continue the species... and even that isn't as good an idea as it sounds since who the heck is going to care for all the helpless children born 9 months later in this doomed wasteland?
Apocalypses are rarely as fun as people make them seem - prepper types in particular who seem to be itching for them to "prove" themselves - and I'm reasonably sure the sex sucks.
Assuming that the power could be kept on for 6 months to a year, how would a scenario with 1 petite black male and 20 young white women between 16-30 pan out.
Sexually speaking, if the kid gets 'too excited' and tries some frotteurism or sexual assault on the hot girls, would the group as a whole punish him with violence and/or ostracism or give into him?
If it's just a single city, why wouldn't they just leave and join the rest of humanity?
If it's just a single city, why wouldn't they just leave and join the rest of humanity?
It was a Belgian TV series Cordon remade as Containment in America, the Army would quarantine the town. There will be no leadership, perhaps the man will pair off or have a few sexual partners. They will simply survive while the rest of us airdrop food to them.
Now if it was a 1 for every 100 males and 20 of every 100 females as survivors inside of the hot zone there still would be many who just live off of the air drop dole. If worldwide the number of deaths would still be probably too high then to do anything except scavenge warehouses while some learn to survive
Assuming that the power could be kept on for 6 months to a year, how would a scenario with 1 petite black male and 20 young white women between 16-30 pan out.
Sexually speaking, if the kid gets 'too excited' and tries some frotteurism or sexual assault on the hot girls, would the group as a whole punish him with violence and/or ostracism or give into him?
I am 100% sure that in your scenario, most dominant will be the oldest or the smartest woman. She will find a way to gain support from the strongest women and establish the rules. The "kid" will become a commodity.
Assuming that the power could be kept on for 6 months to a year, how would a scenario with 1 petite black male and 20 young white women between 16-30 pan out.
Sexually speaking, if the kid gets 'too excited' and tries some frotteurism or sexual assault on the hot girls, would the group as a whole punish him with violence and/or ostracism or give into him?
Oh, now it gets even better! The 1 surviving guy is Black and by some strange coincidence, ALL the surviving women are not only White, they're all young! Oh, wait, they're not only all young, they're also "hot"! (OP, are you aware that not all women between 16 and 30 are hot? How old are you, anyway? Are you out of highschool yet?) AND, to top it all off, you're proposing that the 1 male, who happens to be Black, would turn into a rapist in this scenario!
You sound like you've been reading too many underground comic books or playing too many video games.
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