Because young men like being men. Old men do also. The small percentage of men who do not like being men are mentally ill. It’s that simple.
I couldn’t have said it better.
And women were women.
A few years ago I had a female employee with a son who was a young teenager and she was a single mom and he had little to no man in his life, to her credit she was not bringing in the flavor of the month boyfriend, I respected her for that and wouldn’t introduce him to anyone she had a date with.
She asked me if that could be a problem having no male in his life and I said well, yes he needs to know how to act as a man, be a gentleman, be protective, but to rein in aggression and control it. She said I just don’t have any male figures around and I suggested if she could to get him to watch old movies with strong men in the roles, westerns came to mind. I don’t know how he turned out, she took another job a few months later.