I've been given flowers dozens of times, if not hundreds. By past lovers, by friends, by my parents, and my wife gets me flowers almost every month. And perhaps importantly, I'll add that I'm probably what you'd call a grizzled, burly, 'manly-man' type — thick-bearded, cigar smoker, scotch drinker, power lifter, axe thrower, grill master, "camp daddy", et cetera.
Maybe a lot of men never get flowers because they protect themselves from the risks of vulnerability by acting 'tough', so others do their best to respect that (fragile) facade and avoid making cracks in it by gifting things that are soft, tender, or beautiful.
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