If you drive a vehicle with a manual transmission, do you have trouble explaining to people why ?

Maybe it’s even more difficult for me because I’m a woman, but I just prefer a manual transmission. I love to drive. A manual transmission just makes me feel like I am really driving, like I am more in tune, more connected, more involved in driving. I guess it’s kind of a dying art, the art of driving a five speed (or maybe you have a four speed, that’s what I learned to drive on)... so very sad, I think.