I do hope this is the result of a bad thinking day. Consider the implications of what you've written above. It has nothing to do with what sex one is. It may have a lot to do with ones culture, ones confidence, ones self esteem and ones knowledge. I don't mind if a rooster thinks I need herding. He is probably right. Ask my daughter. Given the mainly female nature of this site, I suggest you reconsider the stereo type you've just painted.I was thinking about this again this morning while watching the rooster move the hens around. Perhaps part of the disconnect between our ways of thinking is because you are a man and view it more like this
and I, as a woman, see it as more of an aggressive and dominating behavior when it's directed at me, such as described here
What happens next if the hen doesn't react to his hackle flash?
ETA- The interactions I've seen between the dogs and roosters is at first a shuffling, then hackles flashes, then if they dogs still haven't moved on, it proceeds to chasing pecking, flogging and spurring.