The majority of prison guards fall into this category. They are "special" people with peculiar needs and unnatural desires. Many have abnormal views about themselves and distorted views about reality. For such poor fellows, the effects of aging are often manic.

The Q Factor is the measurement that doctors use to describe now queer or odd a man behaves in menopause. The factor was named after a Pennsylvania prison guard; Sergeant Qute Querie. He was very strange so he was assigned the Q Factor of 10.

As the prison guard ages, his potency flags. Because he can't stand up the way he once could, he becomes more aggressive, more assertive and generally more silly and extreme in behavior. The first Q Factor is the exaggerated need to attract attention to one's self.

Because people, especially women, ignore him even more than they did when he was younger, the menopausal prison guard becomes even more loud, domineering and ridiculous. He needs to feel powerful and potent again. Because he's sexually limp and lifeless, he needs to feel important. He has to impose himself on prisoners. He has nobody else to impress.

Prison guards always have a lot of trouble getting and keeping women. Almost all are divorced. Women tend to laugh at them. In the typical cases, their wives cheat on them even before they're married. That's one of the reasons why prison guards are so hostile toward prisoners who have wives and female visitors. On the whole (no pun intended), prisoners are much more desirable males and mates than guards are. Normal women simply are repelled by the guard personality type.

Like Qute, many guards start life as bed-wetters and have serious toilet training problems. This makes them feel insecure. As male menopause progresses, the guard has more and more problems coping with the ordinary stresses of life. Admittedly, many guards have problems coping. They feel endangered and at risk in a free environment. To cope they must minutely control everything around themselves. This coping difficulty becomes worse as the guard slips into menopause. Some authorities call it the sphincter factor: got to keep it tight to prevent another accident.

As the guard realizes that he's losing ground, his Q Factors grow. Like Qute, the menopausal guard becomes more negative and effeminate. He must be nasty, so that he feels superior to the people, generally inmates, who are around him. 

While many prison guards behave immaturely and act adolescent, as male menopause progresses, the guy grows more childish, petty and even girlish. He bickers, backbites and bitches like an old maid.

The menopausal man not only acts funny, he even smells funny. He has problems overcoming his inferiority complex and getting peers and women to take him seriously. Since he can't attract admiration, he attracts attention by being disliked, distained and even hated. That way, at least he isn't ignored.

In his defense, it must be said that the menopausal guard is less neurotic than his younger counterparts. He realizes that he's trivial and inconsequential, just another wart in a flood of famous and infamous inmates.