I think men are less committed to faith than women.

Jonathan Bailey said:

The "old ladies" notion probably comes from the fact that there many more widows than widowers. Old widowed women use church largely as a social outlet.

Some of these stereotypes are from tracts that I have received from people. One tract showed a younger man in church who was daydreaming about a baseball game that was coming up. The tracts never show women as thinking about matters outside of religion while at church.

At one of my Methodists services years ago, a minister from China visited. He said that Chinese youth viewed church as "for old ladies" even in their culture and the people at church laughed.

Even to this day, the word "church" uttered evokes images of pews filled with old women in dresses and veils or scarves over their heads. The "church" is considered a female entity as is regarded as a "mother" of sorts.

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Jonathan Bailey said:

It used to be said that church is for old ladies. Since I was a little boy I stereotyped churchgoing with old women. Old women gossip a lot at church. The grandma on The Waltons seemed to be the most God-fearing Christian of that TV family. It's usually some old woman playing the organ at piano at a church. The devout Irish Catholic old lady that was my grandmother's neighbor up the street even brought a big wind-up music box which was a model of a church building with a steeple and a bell over to grandma's house. It didn't work however when she wound it up. I think my grandpa tried to tinker with it but couldn't get it to work. I had an old Southern Baptist aunt in Georgia that even had an antique brass lamp with a pair of praying hands as the base!

A guy is likely thinking about the upcoming football game, maintaining the car, calibrating the belt on his sander or the opening day of hunting season if he is even in church at all. He is not likely meditating on any mystery of any rosary.

Please see the tiny neuron of the male brain for commitment.

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