Men have claimed the earth, called it Her. Men ruin Her. Men have airplanes, guns, bombs, poisonous gases, weapons so perverse and deadly that they defy any authentically human imagination. Boys are birthed and raised by women. At some point, boys become men, dim their vision to exclude women.
All children view things as animate.
As Jean Piaget's work in developmental psychology has shown, children hear the wind whisper and the trees cry. Adult men are convinced and sincere in their perception of adult women in particular as objects. This perception of women transcends categories of sexual orientation, political philosophy, nationality, class, race, and so forth. The boy has a choice. The boy chooses to become a man because it is better to be a man than a woman.