The opening post and the choice of words in the title is the difference, the other thread was lockable.
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If you locked The Thread That Shall Not Be Named, then you gotta lock this one too. Otherwise, you're being prejudiced, biased, and discriminatory.
Oh, wait. Only denigrating women is bad. Denigrating men is OK. Never mind. Carry on.
I would like to remind people that this thread was not started by a woman as an attack on men, but was started by a man who was wondering why, from an evolutionary standpoint, does there need to be so many men, and who was reflecting on his sentiments that he is not a desirable mate.
The other thread, which shall not be named, was posed by a man as an attack on women.
So they were not equal and opposite threads.
To the original poster, to answer the question as to why there are so many men, when one man could theoretically impregnate as many women as he could have sex with, there are number of likely reasons for this.
1. In mammals, there is nothing in the biological process that compels males to produce sperm of one sex over another, so on average, the sex ration in sperm is 50/50.
2. In most mammals, males tend to fight with each other, and this does reduce their numbers, however in humans, though males also have an increased tendency to fight with each other, the sheer amount of resources needed to successfully raise human offspring means that a female with a dedicated male mate is more likely to see her offspring thrive, than a female without a dedicated male mate.
So men are actually quite important.