Yea - it was the macho thing that surprised me too. I think in more ‘western’ cultures there’s like a conflation of ‘machoness’ with being sexually aggressive, but that idea is absent in Croatian/Serbian/Bosnian notions of masculinity.

If you think about it - its actually fairly logical - its less ‘masculine’ to be so desperate that you have to chase/beg/harrass women for attention, and using force against someone who is just physically smaller than you is quite pathetic.