What a man may find, if he was to step back and reflect on his life, is that, in general, his relationships with women have been anything but harmonious. Therefore, when the ‘battle of the sexes’ is mentioned, he probably won’t find it hard to relate to what is being spoken about.
When it comes to his relationships, then, this area of his life will have often been filled with drama and highs and lows. So, as opposed to a woman complementing him, she will have rubbed him up the wrong way, so to speak.