Since only 25 percent of cell-phone customers are women, industry figures show, this may still be a male thing.

For me, the guitar seems such a male thing.

Would you call each one of these men strange, or every male thing on earth strange?

With him and Sam it was that male thing.

It's about keeping people out, and that's a male thing.

That would mean tail cracking had been a "male thing."

When I told him to take a hike, he launched into that male thing.

It must be some male thing, like he has to be a hero.

"The role satisfies a lot of male things in me," he says.