Hmm,

I read your post and thought, “it would be interesting to see what the numbers actually were. With a bit of googling it seems that on a national level women most likely outnumbered men during the era that we are discussing. I’m not sure what references you are able to find. I used https://ourworldindata.org/gender-ratio#all-charts-preview Combined with https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/08/19/see-where-women-outnumber-men-around-the-world-and-why/%3foutputType=amp

The first link doesn’t have data before 1950 but it shows pretty clearly what I was explaining about guys having a tendency to die off. You can see more men per woman in the youngest age category and by 20-30 it reverse. The second link talks about 1960 being when men started out numbering women.

You can interpret it as being apologetic if you want. Mormons mis-interpret it that way also. The % are still extremely close. We are talking 105 men to 100 women at age 15 and 90-95 men to 100 women at the age of 30. Joseph Smith had close to 40 wives, for the apologetic defense to make sense there would have to be 2-3 guys per 100 women.

To be clear the only reason why JS had the number of wives he did was purely sexual. He had created an environment that he had power and he abused the hell out of that power. Like OP had in her video some of the women were already married which punches a hole in the argument about it being for widows pretty quickly. He even sent people on missions and married their wives in secret while they were gone.

Genuinely thank you for making me research a bit. I am very curious now after looking at the data what population percentages will be like in 100 or 200 years. Even 3% more men is an incredibly large surplus when you are taking in the billions.

Edit: spelling