I ended up doing drafting as well as woodshop on top of it. It wasn't really a "reclaim my masculinity" thing so much as wanting to be well-rounded and trying things that I wasn't already good at.
When I had to do some photography on appointment and sometimes videography, well, nervous people can mess up their clothes. A number of women were surprised when I whipped out a needle and matching thread to briefly repair a tear in their clothing when time was tight.
I felt pretty annoyed at having to defend these kinds of choices, and a surprising amount of the pushback came not from boys my own age, but girls and women.
"But you'd be the only boy in the class, everyone else in the class is a girl!" was the general objection from the staff doing the timetables.
Yes. That is rather the point, isn't it?
Anyway I did Technical Drawing instead because either they couldn't see what the plan was, or they could see it all too well.