I was confused too.

I have a tough personality, first to admit, but I don’t know how it’s “man-like”. My husband is much milder mannered than me, is he “female-like”? People are just people. This lady is just not flirtatious. I can relate but it’s not “man like”. Some men are big flirts actually .

I think this comes from a very old fashioned standards of behavior and I suspect maybe OP comes from a very traditional culture where men and women follow certain behavior patterns befitting particular gender. Some things he shared in the past made me think so.