[orwin]

Like I said in a sister comment, you have 108 male to 100 female at birth (correction: 105 to 100[0] in the US), so what do you do with the 'leftovers'?

And if some females don't want to play house now that they can survive on their own, do you force them to play?

[0] https://www.who.int/data/maternal-newborn-child-adolescent-a...

[throwaway290]

Excess at-birth human males die way younger than females. From other males and higher genetic variance. It evens out and even skews the other way.

[bradlys]

Just look at age bar charts and you’ll see this isn’t accurate for developed countries…

[throwaway290]

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/sex-ratio-by-age?time=195...

Seriously, assuming the problem of loneliness is 8% extra males born is naive to the point of harmfulness. The notions of "pairing" and "leftovers" have died decade ago, not to mention people come in and out given country. The problem in Korea is cultural, mental health stigma is strong, classism and the pressure to succeed is beyond ridiculous, your worth measured by how expensive a cat you drive, etc.

[foobarian]

Maybe it's an adaptation that arose as a result of the constant state of war, which is now gone.

[virtual_void]

Not everyone is heterosexual…