Toni
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There are more male babies born than female babies. That slight advantage in numbers diminishes with age and reverses by 40.Demographics!In The US, there are more adult females than adult males.The problem here is that to some degree they are an amorphous commodity. The reality is there are more men than women. Fewer are getting killed off in various ways, increasing the imbalance. It's a pigeonhole problem--more pigeons than holes, some will be left over. The standard reaction to pigeonhole problems is to tell people to better themselves--that can change which ones don't fit but it can't fix the fundamental issue that some won't fit. Dating, jobs, whatever, the bar is always going to end up rising to the point that some don't make it.
We see the same thing the other way around with the elderly, there's not enough men to go around. There at least we have the sense to not pretend they can solve it by bettering themselves.
I do not have a fix and I suspect there is no fix, but that doesn't mean there isn't a problem. Dismissing it just turns the ones that fail against society and provides an easy target for radicalization.
There are more young males than young females. There are more old females than old males. Both groups have problems. And, yes, that suggests a solution of men dating women that are older than they are--but society tends to look down on this, and the older women don't want the younger men.
You wanna start telling women that they are old at 40?