Here are a few of my ideas. I'm wondering about everyone else's thoughts on this very interesting question. Food for thought: * men could be more active (say: responsive and hypervigilant) * men could be more dominant (say: prioritizing controlled speech over natural subconscious speech) * men could be more aggressive (say: negative coping mechanisms like forcing to try getting past speech blocks) * men could hide and bottle up emotions * men could be more logical and analytical (say: overthinking about stuttering) * men could be too rational or realistic - leading to feeling more inner pressure and the need for too high expectations * men could face social expectations towards being perfectionistic. For example: * men could often face significant social expectations to exhibit qualities such as confidence, protectiveness, sociability, assertiveness, and independence. Men could face more pressure to live up to standards of aggression, and to make use of their greater ability to provide and take action * men could self-impose too high expectations like trying to solve emotional struggle * men could self-impose the need to speak more perfect or error-free, and thus, implicating their defensive mechanisms that decides when they say feared and anticipated words. So, a sort of **panic response** * men could more often have the tendency to fight against this defensive mechanism rather than letting go * men may focus more on controlling their speech rather than speaking naturally and subconsciously, and thus, men overthink and worry more about stuttering * men could have an increased tendency to rely on forcing/freezing as a defensive behavior. This is evidenced by boys (but not the girls) showing higher variability in articulatory coordination patterns and differences in basic movement parameters, such as movement amplitude and velocity. Whereas women exhibit a greater repertoire of defensive behaviors beyond freezing. In other words, women may confer a long-term protective or adaptive state that promotes increased cognitive flexibility (which is the ability to alter goal-directed thoughts and behaviors when needed, that is essential for cognitive control and is more impaired by psychosocial stress in men)