Are there more women than men in Taiwan?

Life Dating & Relationships
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I seem to get the impression that Taiwan has a lot more women than men. From looking at the crowd outside, in mrt stations this seems to be the case.

So if so why is it, from hearing other Taiwanese men talk that Taiwanese girls are extremely demanding, asks a lot (typical condition for marriage in Taiwan is an overpriced house of their choosing) and are completely useless in the house (as in can’t cook, don’t want children, etc) like they have plenty of fish to choose from. I know this isn’t true based on your experience but perhaps the women you see are more international.

Are there a glut of women but they don’t want men unless they are treated like a princess?

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I presume you mean single women?

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I get the impression some men here really suck at relating to women or understanding their needs. They’d rather be playing vide games than making the effort to go on dates. Or on the other end of the spectrum, some men take their girlfriends/wives for granted (eg: cheat, drink too much, verbal abuse, etc).

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Maybe they are all inside either working or playing.

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There are more males than females in the populations younger than 35, and the reverse is true for the populations 35 and older.

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Young people in general are terrible at social interaction. When I teach half the lecture theatre will be boys and the other half girls.

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Have you heard of “hikikomori”… men who just stay inside their bedrooms for twenty years playing video games? I think all these modern distractions have screwed up our reward/ pleasure centers. Today’s youth don’t make the effort to go out and meet women, because they can just look at the most extreme kinds of porn. They live vicariously through the characters they play in video games or watch in anime. They’re shut-ins and they like it that way.

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If by Taiwan you mean Taipei, then yes.

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So women don’t do the same?

After all relationship is 2 way and if women don’t make an effort neither will men. If they think they deserve special treatment for being woman then they are mistaken.

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Of course women deserve special treatment. They do the laundry and they let you put your willy in them.

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Women hardly do that anymore, at least in Taiwan. Plus I do my own laundry and don’t like others doing them for me.

If women wants equality then they should be conscripted along with men.

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There are more single men than single women in Taiwan across the board.

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You should know people with girlfriends are counted as single and it’s extremely common for couples in Taiwan to not marry, as culture demands far too much for marriage, when housing price is at an all time high.

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True for most capital cities/business centers I think, because of the preponderance of office jobs.

Well, they’re working on that from the other end, by abolishing conscription. Though when I used to bring it up in high school classes I taught, the girls would always say “Boys don’t have to have babies.”
Maybe that’s what the Seoul city government was talking about?

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So how does that change anything? Unless one woman is dating multiple men, there are still more available men than available women.

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The world is becoming extremely insular. People live within their fantasy worlds online while locked inside their bedrooms.

I have seen too many cases of “Taiwan Princesses” to not think that this is a common thing among women here. Then there is the number of single women still living at home well into their 40s waiting for their soul mate or Taiwan Prince to turn up in a Merc and fall in love at first sight.

You can blame all those ridiculous Asian soap operas and the reworking of the Chinese Classics for this conundrum.

Taiwan is no different to most other places. Whoever has the most amount of money wins in a “Who sucks less” competition of mediocrity at its finest.

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I might not be completely up to date with my Japanese subculture knowledge, but I guess what you describe might more likely be called Hikikomori.

Otaku, as far as I understand, are “simply” nerds. People who are very much into something nerdy. But not necessarily social recluses.

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I’d believe there are less girls (by which I mean female children, under age 18). The closest thing to 50-50 split of boys to girls in a public school class that I’ve had is 13 boys to 10 girls. Most of my classes have been more like 13 boys and 6 girls. Now I teach at a private school and they can control incoming students. They try to do half and half but we’re still at 11 girls and 15 boys.

I think enough people have a lot of “miscarriages”, by which I mean definitely not abortions (:wink:) once they find out they’re pregnant with a girl, to skew the population, which should naturally balance out to 49/51 every few years.

I have noticed much more young women on public transit than men. It aways gives me pause because husbands tend to expect the wives to raise the children, which makes me wonder how many of these women are single or don’t have children.

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Sometimes the truth hurts.

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Women have a different set of issues and yes, some are high maintenance or think their shit doesn’t stink. But generally, they aren’t socially retarded (sorry, can’t think of any other word) hermits who don’t know how to interact with the other sex on even a base level. There are exceptions, of course. But hikikomori skew heavily male and it’s a big reason for the declining birth rate in East Asia.