And the higher they are on the socio-economic spectrum, (white, straight, cisgender), the more likely they are to engage in this kind of nonsense. They get worst as they get older, because all men start to feel their mortality and/or their manhood waning. They begin to have less social influence than when they were in their prime, and start feeling irrelevant and ignored. When that happens, some of them start getting louder and (if possible) even more insensitive. They start yelling at clouds and complaining louder and louder in an effort to be heard.

That's tolerable when it comes from my beloved uncle, because he at least loves me, and wants what's best for me. It's not okay coming from strangers who only want to feel as if they're opinion still matters, when frankly, it never did'