A short excerpt from a YouTube monologue ("Men are TOTALLY different to woMEN") where the speaker notes that 25 men attended an event and reflects on gendered social behaviour: women often attend events with friends, while men more commonly attend alone, which the speaker frames as requiring more courage to do when unfamiliar. The tone is conversational and observational.
Had 25 guys that came along to it and I honestly wasn't sure if anybody would turn up because you know what men are like at coming to things. And men, of course, are very different to women, but often women, when you knowing women that go to events, they'll often take friends with them, whereas men would often just, I mean, very rarely turn up with their mate. They just turn up on their own. And I know that takes a lot more courage and balls, let's say, to go to something on your own when you've never met anyone, it's not something you've gone to before, whereas.
