Missed part of your point there. My fat old guy is a neutered male who of course thinks I'm his mommy.
Used to have neighbors who apparently liked to raise males and not neuter them. There's very little difference after a while between a virile tomcat and a skunk. Skunks are less trouble, if anything.
All housecats think people are their mom. That's really the only fully understandable social relationship that cats have.
Some cats have friends, but stable friendships seem rare in my experience. My older tom gets very twitchy when the younger cat stays out late. Sometimes he goes out looking for him. Then he beats him up.