More males are born than females. In the age for pairing off, late teens through the 20s, there are more men than women. Women are also pickier, want it less, all contributing to an imbalance which dictates that there will be leftover men. Since the women are in greater demand, and therefore have more market value, their imperfections will penalize them less, and they can get away with being more demanding about other aspects such as income. Men with various imperfections, such as Asperger's, are likely to end up in the leftover group, hence a major cause of distress for them. The law of supply and demand dictates that men will value women generally more than women value men. Nobody is to blame for this, it's just how the numbers work out.
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A boy and his dog can go walking
A boy and his dog sometimes talk to each other
A boy and a dog can be happy sitting down in the woods on a log
But a dog knows his boy can go wrong
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