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UNC's Magical '60-40 Ratio': It's All Crap

But it's more or less just some statistic we can throw around to other schools who claim they're better than us. "Well, we have more women than you" is usually our response. The 60 percent of females here are just some sort of eye candy for guys to obsess over.

However, my real beef with the ratio is that women at UNC seem to exaggerate it even more than us males. To them, the ratio is more like 80 percent to 20 percent, apparently. Of course, guys at Carolina are either gay or taken, right?

When I offered last week for people to respond with their Instant Messenger screen names, did I get a response from any of these women who have found it so challenging to find a good guy here? HELL NO.

I guess people didn't respond because they didn't have the technology to do so. (For those of you who don't catch my sarcasm, in other words, I believe that's a bunch of B.S.)

Perhaps those females don't know a good guy when they see one.

Can they really justify complaining when they all seem to go after the same Abercrombie-wearing, SRC-obsessed economics majors from Charlotte?

I know I'm generalizing, and I believe most of my close girl friends do look beyond that (note: I had to cover my butt so I wouldn't get chewed out by them later or not invited to any more of their AWESOME parties).

I'm really speaking to those two-faced females out there who have to audacity to complain about the ratio here, even though several of my friends couldn't find a date for Valentine's Day last week.

How can there be so many girls to choose from, but many of us guys get nothing?

Of course, too much may be better than what little guys ask for when they are happy just ordering out for two breasts and two thighs, so to speak (again, note the fact that I'm covering myself from verbal abuse later).

I suppose what I'm trying to suggest is that there has to be a happy medium. There should be some compromise between superficial guys and shallow women.

I was hanging out in a friend's room last semester. She had one of her girl friends over who apparently wanted to use the room as her own personal forum to berate guys for their total insensitivity and complete incompatibility with her.

For future reference ladies, guys don't respond well to over generalized criticism of their manhood. If some guy treated you poorly, don't take it out on me. Believe me, I couldn't be him, because you have not given me a chance to be him.

Of course, that doesn't matter because some of us, males and females, seem to hold a personal vendetta against the very people who support us.

(This means you, Johanna Costa. I mean, gosh, 100 of my closest friends and I dress up in blue and go out of our way to watch you sit on the bench at several women's soccer games over the year and I get no love. What's up with that? I guess that's just it, some people just don't appreciate applause.)

I think it comes down to the fact that a lot of you females out there who complain about the ratio are victims of your own insecurity and unwillingness to realize when you're being lauded for what you do.

My final appeal is to say that there are those of us guys out there who seek stability, and there are girls out there who do look beyond who spends the most hours at the SRC.

My intention is to raise awareness of those women and men who only look at material things and get them to realize that if they want the ratio to work better for them, it can. Can you really expect males to see past the breasts and thighs if you females aren't looking past the vests and polo shirts?

I think not. Erica, Liz, Sarah and Emma, et al., you know those parties are truly great, by the way. Don't worry, though. I tend not to generalize -- unlike certain female athletes out there.

Ken is still accepting Instant Messenger screen names from all those women who aren't angry at him after reading this column. Reach him at kchandle@email.unc.edu

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