Grow Some Balls and Eat the Peanut

This incident happened when I was at a rehearsal for my dance show. One of the dance group members, we will call her H, dropped a peanut on the ground while eating trail mix. She picked it up and tried to give it to someone else to hold, to which a fellow group member, P, responded, "H, stop. Be a man, grow some balls, and just eat the peanut." P wanted H to exhibit stereotypical male behavior of not being picky about what one eats, but it was surprising that eating a peanut that has been on the floor is a "manly" act since there is not anything particularly masculine about it. I guess this shows that we now use "'be a man" to respond to various different situations that may not exhibit stereotypical masculine behavior.