Unpopular opinion: We should. Obviously as someone who builds and fixes things for living I’m a little biased but I do look down on men that lack any handyman skills (and so do many women). I think doing things like being able to change a tire on a car is about the bare minimum a man should know how to do. I’ll cut you some slack if you don’t own a car or a licence.
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Kaiyoto@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That men should be able to fix things and be mechanically inclined.
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
sanguinepar@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Why a man though - why not just a person?
What is it that means that men ought to be able to do those things, but not women?
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Because in general men are good with things and women are good with people. There’s a good reason the vast majority of construction workers, mechanics and engineers are men and it not (only) because women aren’t welcome on those fields.
exanime@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
Because in general men are good with things and women are good with people.
Dude, you’ve been thoroughly brainwashed
There’s a good reason the vast majority of construction workers, mechanics and engineers are men and it’s not (only) because women aren’t welcome on those fields
…and you double down
sanguinepar@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I think that’s a massive over-generalisation to be honest. Women are just as capable as any of those things.
I’m not sure why you would want to look down on people who don’t know how to do a thing, but at least do it equally.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
Cause in thier minds why is she not in the kitchen pertpually doing chores. Women aren’t people to them. Took so much effort just to give women the right to vote.
FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
All my best workers in shop and on site have been women, hands down. No egos; they listen and learn super-fast; they take great pride in acccomplishment and quality; they don’t tell me how their dad did it or that they’ve “just always done it this way”.
Graphy@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yeah I think men and women should all have some basic level of repair skills. I feel like somewhere along the line everyone got too afraid to break things or hurt themselves.
GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’m a little biased but I do look down on men that lack any handyman skills
That is a lot biased to the point that you can’t even see that other men’s lives may have put them in a position of not learning those things or even wanting to learn those things. It’s great that you know how to do those things but just because someone has a penis doesn’t mean they have to learn how to be handy. That doesn’t make them any less of a man, just different from you.
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Yup, I have an essential tremor and fucking hate that one. I don’t mind strength based tasks… but if I try and screw in a light bulb I’ll probably crush it accidentally… don’t even get me started on appliances like blenders and shit - in the best case scenario I’ll brick the device… but I’ll probably injur myself.
NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 4 weeks ago
I mean no offense at all, and feel free not to answer, but how do you type?
Is it like a special keyboard, voice to text, or do I just completely misunderstand what you mean?
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
At the moment it comes and goes with stress, as my dad aged it became more and more common but I can usually manage to type (with a lot of autocorrect help and backspace). It also varies with hand posture and that sort of clamping grip really makes me unsteady (for this reason scrubing potatoes is actually extremely difficult for me).
It’s a neurological thing - almost certainly - so I only know what I’ve observed.
ikidd@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
A friends son has this. It’s a little disconcerting to watch a 25 year old shaking like they have Parkinsons. He seems to rely on large muscle movements and catching things as they go by rather than steadying in on something.