@ItsDanny: I actually understand and feel the same. Because I'm transgender, I never identified with being male. But to survive I had to put on a persona of one of the boys. It gave me great insight being around men and seeing how they act. Then trying to put a nice spin to my presentation when I had to be a boy. A lot of "men" were threatened by my softening what thier idea of masculine or manly was.
And today, I don't pretend to be that kind of man at all when I have to be in male guise. And I hate the automatic association by people I come in contact with to treat me or see me as male. All those feelings go away when I walk out the door as Joanie.