This is an interesting new thing to worry about I think: college gender imbalances. It’s only what, a generation ago (from my aged view point, perhaps two from yours) that we were all decrying the manner in which women were so discriminated against in their not being able to go to college in the same way that the men did.

Now the question is being asked the other way around: women are at most colleges 60% or more of the entry group so how is this going to affect matters?

The fear is that in a society where women (and the assumption is that most women of college age in hte US are either sexually active or at least desire to be: not an entirely outrageous assumption in either my experience or expectation) are in such a majority that the norms of monogamy, even of the serial kind, will fall away. Men find it so easy to get a date that they don’t worry too much about fidelity to such a date: women similarly are so interested in a date that they don’t demand said fidelity.

It all actually sounds rather attractive from the male point of view, to be sure, but I’m not convinced that it’s actually that much of a problem. People do after all leave college and while those young men might be able to make hay (or sow wild oats to switch analogies) while there, boy, are they going to get a shock when they come out into the 50/50 world outside the halls of academe.

Serves them right of course: no one is allowed to enjoy themselves in that manner….well, certainly not from the point of view of one who went to college some decades ago when the sex ratio was 70% male anyway.