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Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by letonmorri on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @07:07PM (#27043983)
The ratio of older women to men: historical perspectives and cross-national comparisons

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10902048/

This paper seems to disagree heavily with you.

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Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by coronasaurus on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @08:06PM (#27044452)
Just going by the abstract that you linked, that study seems to only relate to the past 100 years.

And extrapolating this to the middle ages and earlier:

In general, countries with a lower overall life expectancy had a lower number of women per 100 men aged 75+, while countries with higher overall life expectancy had a higher female to male ratio in this age group. A hundred years ago there were nearly equal numbers of women and men aged 75+ in many countries.

It doesn't seem to disagree with me at all.

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