you also sound like my wife.
She loves to see me work sweat hard, not cry on her shoulder if I get hurt and be a man not a pansy fairy like the left are.
Go to Boston or a college and see the male students. most are pansys who probably never had a fight ion their life and probably can;t even change a lightbulb, wear spanex, a helmet etc.
You sound like my husband. He has his pains I am know, but he rarely shows it. He was infantry in Vietnam. Bronze star, but he won’t tell me what is was for other than “doing my job”. That was a growl. LOL
I think all of you are really pushing this metrosexual thing a little too far. i.e "generalizing". Most young guys today my age are not pussies or pansies.
I guess I would be a metrosexual in your eyes....
Spandex..I wear it when I road bike..go for a 100 mile "Century ride" and your inner thighs will look like it went through a belt sander/cheese grinder if you don't.
Helmet? Same thing. I had a nasty accident some years back several broken bones etc and the helmet definitely did it's job.
Change a lightbulb? I grew up on a farm and rebuilt/repaired farm equipment/mucked out cow s**t all the time.
Fights? A few over the years
And horror or horrors...I use a woman's hair conditioner (Garnier)....Have to. Take two showers every day (work out 2-2.5 hours at the gym every night with my gf) and we work out hard-weights and cardio. Come home drenched in sweat and have to take a shower or else the sheets get funky after 2 days. Use the conditioner because my hair gets really dried out due to washing my hair 2 times per day..don't want to use it but it is a necessity.
Do some other stuff you would laugh at (but don't prance or preen LOL) but my girlfriend could tell you I am not a pansy or a fairy...
I know guys who work on utility line crews and many if not most are now using moisturizers on their faces before going out to work because they don't want to look like the older guys before them who at age 45-50 faces are so grizzled and wrinkled from the sun. These guys are far from being metrosexual but don't want to look like a 95 year old man at age 45.
Times are changing and what men and women today are doing that is outside what you may have grown up with is not all bad.