Usecase for a USB cable that's [A Male] ↔︎ [A Male]
Not that this particular cable is expected to be used for this purpose, but I have a similar cable which is used to connect a Chinese-made laser cutter to the USB port of a computer. The connection on the cutter is to a controller module, which also has a different USB port dedicated to use with a flash drive. This would imply that the PC connected port is configured differently than the flash drive port. Host to host perhaps.
You can use your cable as an extension, for example, with these reductions:
USB cables are not (one)directional.