I don't know where the word "threaten" was used. But in any case, the immemorial custom of the Church stood for 1995 years. Customarily, the acolytes who served Mass were a minor order step to the priesthood.
Psychologically, when 10, 11 and 12-year-old girls take over from 10,11 and 12-year-old boys who have to be encouraged to serve anyway, then the boys disappear. There are very few activities of responsibility left anywhere any more where boys can have responsibility and comaraderie to development their manhood without girls being foisted on them.
And then later on, those dioceses which have a vast majority of altar girls have no priets. Voila!!! Then we get into debates about why we should allow married men to be priests and women priestesses. All because we ignore the root cause of the problem.
Well spoken on the "altar girl" nonsense afflicting the Roman Catholic Church, M. I am Orthodox myself but many of my friends and family are Catholic and I often attend weddings or other services in their churches. I have always sensed a truly nasty "Hey, lookit me!! I'm an altar girl!!" spirit of pride and an idiotic worship of modernism in these imps and their supporters. I hope the next Bishop of Rome will be able to restore order on the "west side" of Christendom. Sure, we have our problems in the Eastern Church but oh brother do I feel sorry for you guys...