Of you grow up in the west females are everywhere. From workplace school and homeBasra people grow up differently.
If you grow up not interacting with females that often you can become socially awkward towards them.
Boy the threads I seen on ummah forum had me confused sometimes. I’m use to being in mixed environments so I was caught off guard when I saw dudes making threads about not wanting to go to public gyms because of the sights of women wearing revealing clothes. Or going to the beach because of women in bikinis.