[Teh_Bandwagoner]

http://www.vanmag.com/News_and_Featu...ouver_Men_Suck

Though these are some interesting points of view from a few women who live in Vancouver, my primary purpose for posting this article is because I find it hilarious!

Originally from Halifax, Marci moved to Vancouver in her early 20s and lived here for 16 years, working in database management. She traces the city's dating problems to a culture where "masculinity is not celebrated or desired, so the manly men go underground." Vancouver's values-the importance of image, self-actualization, enlightenment, and personal fulfilment-are feminine ones, she says. Even the city's obsession with sports and the outdoors is feminized: it's mostly about play in a posh, manicured landscape. When you add a plethora of stunningly fit, beautiful, and successful women onto that background (many women I spoke with were impressed with the fabulousness of Vancouver women), men retreat in confusion. Because image is so important, they don't want to be seen as trying. Women have to tone down their success or competence to assuage a man's ego, Marci says, and as a result Vancouver has many mismatched couples.