[reducesuffering]

It's a bit more nuanced than that. While there are more woman than men, that's because of women outliving men by many years. All of that abundance is due to women in their 50's and up. For people of a more typical dating age, under 50, there are more men than women.

[cheriot]

Yep, age is a big factor here. The gender ratio reaches parity around age 40[1]. After that there's more women than men. The point being that gender ratio is not a viable explanation for incel communities.

[1] https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-03.pdf

[mikeyouse]

I don’t think that’s necessarily true either - Young men have much higher mortality rates as well - up to 3x in some age groups:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/241572/death-rate-by-age...

Primarily from accidents and violence if I recall correctly.

[reducesuffering]

While true, that's still data that is secondary to the main point. These are the real stats that reflect the disparity.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/241488/population-of-the...