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All mothers will do it when afforded the opportunity. Women are always trying to control men and a son is a man she gets total control over early on. Some may be worse than others but all of them instinctually infantilize their sons; the biggest disappointment in every mother's life is when her son turns out to just be a big boorish man like the rest. They raise their sons according to their surface level thoughts about what a man should be, rather than what men actually are and what women (including themselves) respond to, rendering incels out of their son with regularity. Often it's not consciously malicious. They're simply mistaken.
The only solution to this is for boys to be initiated into manhood by older men, who can teach them what manhood actually is and effectively give them permission to become men. Men can only become men by being initiated.
The trick is that initiation usually requires total separation from the mother, which doesn't happen in the modern day. If a father is even around he has no time to do that. Even if he did, the mother won't allow it, and she has the chilling effect of divorce threats. Most men simply can't overcome their wives on this; not enough clout, not enough time. So instead boys are just never initiated, and they remain boys in the hands of their mothers.
The Apache (IIRC) were actually so aware of this psychic incest between mother and son that mothers were not allowed to give anything directly to their adult sons. If they weaved a blanket, they would give the blanket to someone else, and that someone else would give it to their son, saying
>Your mother made this.