Gays arrested by Moscow police for leaving flowers at US embassy

[Hammerfest]

I read somewhere that Russia is having a population problem and Putin instituted some sort of fornication day in the hopes that pregnancies would occur. That being the case, I can understand why there'd be anti-gay sentiment there on the governmental level.

[Kujako]

I read somewhere that Russia is having a population problem and Putin instituted some sort of fornication day in the hopes that pregnancies would occur. That being the case, I can understand why there'd be anti-gay sentiment there on the governmental level.

Russia has a shortage of men. Ratio is something like 1.8 to 1, female to male.

[Wingerie]

Why do you think they were arrested? I've heard you can be arrested if you're holding hands or kissing if you're gay.

Not really. You won't get arrested, but you'll face aggression from some conservative men. Some may threat you with violence, some may assault you.

[Hammerfest]

Russia has a shortage of men. Ratio is something like 1.8 to 1, female to male.

That's too bad.

[ls-]

That's too bad.

That's bullshit, it's 0.86:1 (1:1.16) male to female, and mainly cuz Russian men die quite early, like late 50s. At birth rates are almost 1:1.

[Ripster42]

That's bullshit, it's 0.86:1 male to female, or 1:1.16 female to male, and mainly cuz Russian men die quite early, like late 50s. At birth rates are almost 1:1.

You mixed them up on your second one. It can't be 0.86:1 male to female and 1:1.16 female to male. It's still a pretty huge discrepancy.

[ls-]

You mixed them up on your second one. It can't be 0.86:1 male to female and 1:1.16 female to male. It's still a pretty huge discrepancy.

Oh, yeah, messed up. Fixed it.

TBH, it's not a biggie. >60yo grannies are ruining the ratio.

[wowaccounttom]

why does it matter if the russian gays "mourn" for some random gay?

anyways.. . wtf would flowers do a building a world away???

[Wingerie]

Oh, yeah, messed up. Fixed it.

TBH, it's not a biggie. >60yo grannies are ruining the ratio.

Yupp, on average women tend to live for 20 years more than men here.

[Koji2k11]

im so glad my parents decided to leave this shit country 22 years ago

[Ripster42]

Oh, yeah, messed up. Fixed it.

TBH, it's not a biggie. >60yo grannies are ruining the ratio.

That's not really how that works either. It's not like the discrepancy all of a sudden jumps unless countries are involved in huge wars that wipe out a generation. Life expectancy numbers don't really mean that people die at a certain age. It's not how that statistic works. It's a metric that takes into account deaths all along the age spectrum. If you've got a few young deaths that will skew numbers more than the same amount of people dying just 5-10 years before the average. You can usually infer that the gender gap widens fairly early (wars/immature males doing dangerous things) then steadies.

[wowaccounttom]

Not really. You won't get arrested, but you'll face aggression from some conservative men. Some may threat you with violence, some may assault you.

neat, its not the government doing cleansing... its the people....

[Ripster42]

Yupp, on average women tend to live for 20 years more than men here.

That is a pretty crazy divide.

[Hammerfest]

That's bullshit, it's 0.86:1 (1:1.16) male to female, and mainly cuz Russian men die quite early, like late 50s.

That's too bad.

[dacoolist]

That's bullshit, it's 0.86:1 (1:1.16) male to female, and mainly cuz Russian men die quite early, like late 50s. At birth rates are almost 1:1.

I thought it was the radiation #tinfoilhat

[ls-]

That's not really how that works either. It's not like the discrepancy all of a sudden jumps unless countries are involved in huge wars that wipe out a generation. Life expectancy numbers don't really mean that people die at a certain age. It's not how that statistic works. It's a metric that takes into account deaths all along the age spectrum. If you've got a few young deaths that will skew numbers more than the same amount of people dying just 5-10 years before the average. You can usually infer that the gender gap widens fairly early (wars/immature males doing dangerous things) then steadies.

Nonono, Russian case is quite simple, on average women live really long lives, but men die relatively early, and more than a quarter of men die before reaching 55. IIRC, Russian men have one of the shortest lifespans. It's been this way for quite a long time, >60 years.

[Ripster42]

Nonono, Russian case is quite simple, on average women live really long lives, but men die relatively early, and more than a quarter of men die before reaching 55. IIRC, Russian men have one of the shortest lifespans. It's been this way for quite a long time, >60 years.

You're saying things that you don't know how to analyze.

On average women live really long lives. On average men die relatively early. But actuarially, you see a huge spike in male deaths early and then leveling off. That 1/4 of men dying early; a lot of that is young males. The gender divide starts early because of the behavior patterns of males. Almost always more male children are born than female children. Almost always there are more women than men by the time that generation hits their mid 20s and only exacerbates from there.

[Wingerie]

neat, its not the government doing cleansing... its the people....

Yeah, that's exactly my point

[dacoolist]

Here in the US, we have the respect that Men & Women in MotherRussia are pretty hardcore when it comes to hand to hand combat, guns, and not playing around. This whole political stuff I wish would go away, I wish we would have better ties with Russia, but I guess their is a lot more that goes into that, I'm sure we've pissed everyone off there at this point

[sethman75]

Why should an intolerance of oppression be bound by borders?

I will listen to you when Russia's civil policy is enforced on your country until then it doesn't concern anybody except Russians

Deal with it