This is a myth. Female cheerleaders are cute, sexy, fresh, and all-American. Male cheerleaders are scary. Men wear sensible socks. They wear standard white sweatsocks.
Women wear strange socks.
They are cut way below the ankles, have pictues of clouds on them, and have a big fuzzy ball on the back. Then, when they reach the age of 11 or 12, they lose interest. Men never grow out of their obsession wih toys. As they older, their toys simply become more expensive and impractical. A woman asks a man to water her plants while she is on vacation.