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In his mind, he is being a protective brother.
In reality, he is just being a douchebag brother.
Your brother cares about you, and is fully aware of how much of an asshole guys can be because he himself probably treats girls like shit. It's not a quality that guys will show their sisters, or any other member of his family, and you are probably unaware of what he really does. Guys around 25-30 will meet girls on Tinder or POF, make them feel special, have sex with them, and then move on. Or they cheat on their girlfriends too. But they will do this in secret, never allowing their friends and family (you) to ever know that he's a dishonest, disloyal cheat.
His worst nightmare would be for you to meet a guy, because he thinks all men are like him. They would wine you, dine you, sleep with you, and dump you.
For your brother, no guy you ever meet will ever meet his standards. That's not a good thing, because there are many good guys out there. He just doesn't hang around such people and doesn't know any such people. However, if you gave your brother's girl friends the death stare, and chased away all the girls in his life, he'd probably tell you to take a hike. It's a double standard... he's allowed to be a douchebag to others (because it benefits his penis), but no men are allowed to be a douchebag or a gentleman to you.
Because older brothers like myself care about their younger siblings.
I'm not saying your guy friend must be a bad person, but your brother just wants to make sure you aren't played around with or disrespected by other guys.
I have a younger sister and when she got her first boyfriend I was always suspicious around him, no matter how nice how acted towards me I still didn't like the look of him very much, but my sister always told me not to worry about him. It turned out later on one day he sexually assaulted her, but he dissappeared before I could get my hands on him. But it still makes me unhappy as I wish I could have done something about it.
So again, I'm not saying that is going to ever happen to you with your best friend, I'm sure he's a nice guy, but older brothers are protective because they love their younger siblings and want to make sure they're happy. I'm sure your brother and your friend will get along soon.
Older brothers generally feel a sense of responsibility for younger siblings, especially if they've been engaged in helping to raise those siblings.
With older brothers and little sisters in particular, the brother is hyper aware of what teenage boys are probably thinking about in regards to their sisters because they've recently been in that same position. They don't want creeps taking advantage of them. They've probably seen friends or schoolmates take advantage of others (or be taken advantage of).
Because men are protectors and women are nurtures. Biological hardwiring.
Add the oldest sibling-factor - which is often encouraged even further by parents by telling the oldest sibling to take care of the others - and the knowledge of how dick-controlled boys can be, and you have an overprotective brother.
I don't have a sister, but if I did, yes, I would be protective of her. There's nothing wrong with that. A girl hiding behind the "omg stop controlling me I can do what I want" excuse isn't helping anything, especially since you can't predict the future and what someone might do out of malicious intent.
Being the eldest sibling and brother I am just protective of my sisters especially since they have poor taste in people and hang around with a bad crowd, so generally I make it known without speaking that if they get them into trouble or hurt them they will be dealt with harshy.
I am an older brother and I am not protective. Maybe because I loathe the fact that I didn't get the typical social experience, so if anything I want her to have the typical social experiences that I wasn't given the opportunities to enjoy. She's only 11 though, so that's just my prospective attitude.
I have 2 younger sisters, and I will give a death glare to any of their male friends that they have.
Partially biological I'm sure, I also simply don't trust boys of there age range, and I am very protective of my sisters.
I wouldn't do anything to them unless it was necessary, but I rather keep them on their toes.
Well, one common reason is that he loves you. Boys aren't very good at articulating their love, and his comes out as over-protectiveness.
Older brothers have the same problem as fathers - they clearly remember their mental state when it came to women, and the assume that any man you are talking to has the exact same intentions toward you that they did to other women.
This is probably true, but they just have to get used to it.
Usually brothers have a protective instincts to their younger siblings and don't quote me on this but I believe most fathers teach their son to look after their sisters as they grow up.
You should be glad you have a big brother who loves and looks out for his little sister. If anyone does anything bad to you, you know you have someone who will kick their ass.
My younger brother is 5yrs younger than me, I feel more like a father than a brother... call it male protective instinct... I've seen the big bad world and made mistakes... I want my brother to learn from my mistakes so I'm protective of him.
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