abstaining from meat alone would not qualify as fasting anybody that I know of ... If you insist on misidentifying our relatively mild discipline of abstinence from meat with our much more strict discipline of fasting, you're going to cause confusion and misunderstanding.
As for 'sissies' ... whatever. Catholics don't fast or abstain in order to prove how 'manly' we are. That would be a sin of pride and of 'self-esteem'. We do it (among other things) as a mortification of the flesh; a way of allowing God to draw us away from the things of this world.
I'm sure your real reasons are similar ...
AB, I was kidding about the sissy stuff.