MEN NEED TO BE PHYSICAL
I'd go so far to say that everyone needs to be. Way too many fat lazy fucks out there who use excuses to cope with their shitty lives.
I wonder if this is becoming more and more widespread because there are so many more jobs that require ZERO physical effort now, and there are a lot of men working them. That's why they feel lonely and unfulfilled and desperate- because they sit in a cubicle or in their home office all day staring at monitors. The heaviest lifting they do is a cup of coffee to their face.
Compare this to the man who works in say, a copper mine. He's fucking strong as an ox. He comes home tired, but fulfilled, having completed a hard day's work. His wife admires him for having the strength and risk-taking ability to get in those dangerous mines and bring home a ton of cash for her and their kids. Meanwhile, the soyboy cubicle guy's wife is fucking some Chad pool-boy while he's staring at a monitor, getting fatter, posture getting more slouched every day.
I believe it's especially important that men in non-physical jobs spend their free time doing physical exercises, lots of it. Men who have worked hard physical jobs for many years don't really need this, they get 8+ hours a day of good exercise while making money to do it. Isn't there a lot of data that shows the guys doing heavy physical labor are generally more "happy" than the people in their same company working the office? Check me on that, but I swear I've read a few studies relating to this.
My husband works one of those hard physical jobs, can concur that he's happier than the vast majority of people. He says that he could never work a desk job, that it'd do his head in.
I have a strange job, where it's very office heavy but at the same time there's a lot of heavy lifting to do. I'm kind of a split worker- I need the brains to understand a complicated company computer system for inventory and invoicing, as well as being able to operate a forklift and move really heavy shit on/off pallets.
The thing I hate most about my job is being out doing the physical stuff, while knowing there's a ton of shit to do in the office. That's more stressful to me than being in the office working on something and knowing there's a huge amount of physical labor awaiting me. I know I can handle all aspects of the job, but it's definitely the networking/communication with off-site people that's the hardest... and typically there's a female secretary in that role for most companies, but my branch is really tiny so everyone on my team is basically doing 2-4 different jobs.
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