Hmm, idk really.

Because they also call it girlfriend instead of womanfriend? 🤷

My first impression is because manfriend is more of a husband thing...
Whereas boyfriend is the early stages of a relationship prior to marriage...

Maybe ... I dunno 🤔

How about just friend if that's all he is or more serious might be significant other?

Why not womanfriend instead of girlfriend?

Have fun tilting at those! 😉🍿

because it's a misuse of the word

there's not supposed to be a romantic connotation with the word boyfriend

but dudes are too scared to be called gay to say they have boyfriends when that is EXACTLY what they have!!

and won't a girlfriend...get you on a list somewhere?

Association of romance with the young at heart.

Right, mature relationships