One of the wonderful aspects of the biology of women is that they have clear signals of an entrance into womanhood (menarche) and the end of being a birthing mother and opening the door leading to grandmotherhood (menopause).  Male biology has no such events, the transition from boy to man to grandfather it is a more gradual process that, in today’s world, is often unobserved, unguided, and unappreciated.  In a land of perpetually immature or even feminized men, the idea of transitioning from each stage of life is not valued as an important aspect of masculinity.  In fact, some groups have created distorted rites of passage, such as vandalism, theft, excessive drinking, and violence, in an attempt to recover some type of doorway that represents a passage through life stages.  Without direction, boys do not become men or they do succeed, but it requires decades to coddle together some kind of maturation given that we are embedded within an culture that prioritizes self over the collective, privileges over responsibilities, and humans over the earth.