Usually I'm proud to be a man, but sometimes I'm not. Read this. For the record I drive an economical sedan and oppose the war.
http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/050802_masculinity.html
This is important because the GOP is using things like this to garner votes. I strongly suspect that in the red states being a liberal or a democrat is tantamount to being a "sissy." A lot of this probably started with Reagan's cowboy image. It sells cigarettes, it sells politics.