1, if you make stuff rare to people, they tend to react differently about it than what they would if they had it all the time. And also making a joke about it or being playful with it is nothing to attack a person over.
2, for the one doing the attacking and throwing things out their about gentlemen, like it is sex related only thing, as in males only act that way but females don't... Women act just as bad and as shallow as men. I hate when women want to attack men for the same thing their own sex is capable of doing. I have seen many women go on about male character models or have had them yell at me in sexual ways while I go for a walk just like pig men will yell at women. It isn't a sex related thing, it is a human related thing and how people respond in general.
So this has nothing to do with him being a male, just him being a "person" being playful. Men talk about lumps in the shirts and women talk about lumps in the pants, that is some do and some don't...