When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box.
When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction.
You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons.
The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no "he" and "she." A human being is a human being.