Chicktoria Disease. - An educated, fit, employed, single males survival guide......

Nothing tugs at the heart harder or sweeter than a tragedy. If one can make a montage movie about the lack of love and true happiness, there is no better place to showcase this than Chicktoria, BC. Victoria a city of 350,000 people, nestled on Vancouver Island is the jewel of Canada. Of cities over 100,000 residents, it has the most severe imbalance of women to men earning it the nickname of Chicktoria.

I remember being young and single in Victoria during the late 80's and early 90s. I was of average looks, average shape, worked for Price Waterhouse, wore suits, drove a car, lived with my parents and had no trouble finding dates/girlfriends. The ratio of women wanting a man like me to available men like me,,,,,,, 3 to 1. A wonderful youth, a great place to talllywhack, amazing how many of my friends had two girlfriends knocked up at once....

Here I am, 44 years old suddenly single and in by far the best physical condition of my life. I have a wonderful job, am an excellent cook, drive a nice car that shows I love the planet, own a home where don't have to commute in from Langford... The ratio of women wanting a man such as myself to available men as myself is at least 20 to 1 and probably far higher..... You would think this city Chicktoria is a paradise for a man such as myself, but its a tragedy..... At 44 the body does not produce near enough testosterone to take advantage of the situation. It's like finally being selected as the winner of an all you can eat Rogers Chocolate contest the day after you find out you are a diabetic.

This gender imbalance makes women behave in a very odd manner in Chicktoria, and it t follows the progression of a disease, hence the new name Chicktoria Disease:

Stage 1: - They notice that if they are dating someone he is a jerk, and they suspect he probably has several other women on the go. They also realize that the really nice men are married, while the really hot men are gay.

Stage 2: - It dawns on them that this only being able to find jerks is due to a gender imbalance. There just are not near enough decent men to go around. They realize that if they are to find a decent man in Chicktoria, they are going to have to get aggressive.

Stage 3: - They realize being aggressive is a failure, because all the really desirable men they hit on are either married or gay. At this point they will settle for anyone, hence you see beautiful 40 yeaar old women with graduate degrees, supporting 50 something year old geldings.

Stage 4: - They just plane hate men. Years of rejection and dating only losers have made them very bitter. The most perfect man imaginable from when they were at Stage 1 or Stage 2 of their disease asks them out....... THEY TEAR THE POOR GUYS HEAD OFF.....

As a single guy, it is important to develop personal security procedures where you prepare for any situation by performing an environmental analysis. For myself I have developed a Threat Assessment Checklist based on; the environment I will be in; relative weighting of the stages of Chicktoria Disease in the population of threats to be encountered; and finally the weather and the social context.

I will be explaining in subsequent posts how to perform a Threat Analysis properly, and outlining the preparations that will help one survive any social situation.

To be continued