anything to do with sewing and so on

I’m not arguing with your point at all, which is a good one, but this one hits me kind of funny. In Coast Guard aviation, the Rescue Swimmers (the guys who jump out of helicopters to save people, are in incredible shape, etc) have two main jobs when they aren’t actively flying: work out, and sew. Their shops have several industrial sewing machines in them, and they are excellent with them. You rank up and need new patches on your uniforms? Leave them in the swimmer shop with a six-pack, they’ll get done better than any shop you might take them to. A lot of the survival gear gets made or repaired by them, so they have to be good.

So it’s just funny that the most hardcore, masculine men (and women) in the Coast Guard all sew for a living.