Oh, it's even worse than that. Lots of unhappy males leads to fear among the ruling class of where the discontent might lead, which encourages them to pick a fi

Oh, it's even worse than that. Lots of unhappy males leads to fear among the ruling class of where the discontent might lead, which encourages them to pick a fight to start a shooting war, which has the dual benefits of keeping the now-patriotic males busy on the front, and also directly serving to decrease their numbers to fix the original problem. Kind of a big problem if you're the one they decide to rile the masses up against.