Leg warmers are sexy. A woman, even if walking the dog or doing the dishes, is allowed to wear leg warmers. She can wear them any time she wants. Men say they love cats, but when women aren't looking, men kick cats. Women use garages to park their cars and to store their lawnmowers.
Men use garages for many things.
They hang license plates in garages, they watch TV in garages, and they build useless wooden things in garages. When a woman reaches menopause, she goes through a variety of complicated emotional, psychological, and biological changes. The nature and degree of the changes varies with the individual. Menopause in a man provokes a uniform reaction. He buys aviator glasses, a snazzy French cap and leather driving gloves, and goes shopping for an expensive foreign sports car.