Why do guys (younger) act so macho and immature (especially around women)?

I’ve seen groups of women play the damsel in distress card too at times. It’s just a sign of that person’s maturity and self-control. I do think some of it goes back to primal urges (like the alpha male thing). I also think some of the behavior goes away with age and maturity, but from my experience, the primal urges to provide for and protect stick around.

you kind of answered your own question in your explanation “performing for the woman like primitive animals.” It’s the male’s natural instinct to act macho and to show that they can provide fro and protect the female. To our cores, we are still animals, and just because we have a higher mental capacity than the rest of the animal kingdom, does not mean we are exempt from years of ingraining primal instincts.

It’s not just a young male thing, it’s generally a male thing. Sometimes, after time, certain men tend to either quite these instincts and change their behavior, but it’s still there I believe. As far as women propogating this, some do, some don’t. Just like it is primal for men to act this way, it is primal for women to gravitate towards it. So just like some men grow out of it, some women do as well. I never fell for that “Me Jack, You Jane” mentality. But that’s maybe because I can protect myself as a strong and mature woman and wasn’t looking for that kind of man.

There is also the little aspect that maybe the men who still do this are covering for serious character flaws and this is all they have to offer a mate, macho-ness?

Neanderthal tendencies.You can take the man out of the cave but you’ll never take the caveman out of the…..err… ahem… well you know what I mean.

The thing I have noticed is that women (girls) grow much faster physically than boys. In my class I just think all guys are jerks! We are all the same age but they are more unmature than us girls.

I’ve found that most women get bored with that pretty quick. Some don’t. Some gravitate toward those guys for as long as they’re in the game. Real self confidence isn’t expressed by flexing and posing, or relating stories about fights you’ve been in. Having said that, if a true damsel in distress situation arises. We all know that if you slay the dragon, you get the prize.

First, not all young men do this. Second, women don’t really like it.

It has to do with making points in front of the other guys more than anything else.

Typical Alpha Male traits. . .

You don’t need those qualifiers like ‘younger’ and ‘around women’ as plenty of men dont’ grow out of this phenomenon and do it just as much around other men….People are good at performing the gender norm they think makes them most attractive to the people they want to sleep with…in many cases, what they’re performing is not actually attractive and they got the wrong lesson from their parents/peers/dumb-ass magazines/websites, etc.

I wasn’t aware that it was an act….

I believe it a fake it til you make it thing. Until they feel comfortable in their skins and with their experiences then they’ll be trying to feel out the boundaries of their personas, see what feels right and what works to their advantage. It might take some of them close to their 40’s to wake up one day and say to themselves, “geez, I’m an adult now, I finally feel like a real man/adult.”

Yes it’s a young male thing. And they don’t really mean it usually. But it is very stupid, and it’s a combination of culture and hormones. The hormones are unavoidable. The culture part, is the stupid part.

This behavior isn’t especially around women though. It’s probably slightly tamer around women, even. Just read the spontaneous chats of any massively multiplayer online action game…. you’ll see the monkeyest, apest display of testosterone fueled neanderthals.

Its just natural. Animals do this all the time. They “show up” each other trying to be the alpha male. Alpha male gets the mate.

@Kraigmo Oh definitely, I mute other players when I play MW2 all the time.

I mute & own simultaneously, it’s a gift I know.Ha ha ha in me power.