Why don’t men (males) get more info?

Because we just do not care. I don’t listen to gossip (for the most part) and don’t care about it one way or the other. Most men are similar. Women are raised in a totally different social milieu where gossip is prized. Men are not, for the most part. It just means little to us therefore.

Relatedly, I had a couple of fairly close friends in the army and I didn’t even know their first names (everyone uses last names or army nicknames there). No idea if they had any siblings or much else about them. Not uncommon for men at all. Can’t even imagine that with a woman.