I'm not the girlie man this weather guy looks like, but - even though I am a natural born Texican - I hate cock roaches. A couple years ago, while pulling the shower curtain close, a cock roach that had been hiding up there ran across my fingers. I freaked and my wife laughed at me - for weeks.
But years back, when I first left the Army and hit the job market, I lived in a small, cheap apartment by myself; with a 9 inch B&W TV, a card table, and a foam mattress from our camper. Each night - for 3 months - cock roaches crawled on my body and face as they roamed about. I got used to it and thanked God when I was able to move out and move into a home with my wife, kid, and dog.
My guys, both husband and son, are not "girlie men"...they pick up snakes, will kill roaches, have been known to chase down a fruit rat out of our fruit tree and kill it with a stick, BUT....if there is a spider, anywhere in their vicinity, they tend to freak out. I have averted many a car wreck by reaching over and killing a spider that happened to crawl on my husband while he was driving. I think it must be a genetic thing because they both make the same sort of ungodly sound when a spider crawls on them or near them.