Fun fact: Maybe he’s not mad? I bet you read that meme as a male speaking, too.

It’s been shown in studies that due to “be tough” mentalities, boys do not learn the appropriate associations to vacabulary when expressing their feelings, and thus fall back to describing anger at older ages, even if what they are experiencing is something else.

This study hits on this some, I can’t find the better one: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4469291/