As guys, we have this manly reputation to uphold. And I fear we're going about it all wrong. Just because I know how to sew (yes, it's true), read Junie B. Jones to my daughter, write love notes to my Valentine and like IKEA doesn't mean that I'm soft.
As men, we often use a watered-down, societal idea of being a man that is more about ego than anything else. Being a man requires responsibility, leadership, self-control, courage, self-discipline, etc. Being "manly" just requires and ego so big that you can't be honest with yourself so you overcompensate by doing only manly things.
I'll choose the former. I hope you other men will too.