Partly because of the whiskers, facial skin on men tends to be thicker than on women, and the skin doesn't hang and cause jowling as early or as severely as it often does in the female face.  On the other hand, the male's heavier skin is grabbed by gravity more firmly, and it's difficult to obtain a long-lasting face lift improvement in men.

Still, the operation works, and often a great deal of excess skin is removed during a face lift on middle-aged men.