I cook more often and better than Mrs. WI. I do it because I love to cook and she's perfectly happing letting me.

I have always done my own laundry, since I was old enough to reach the knobs. If something needs to be done, there's no benefit in waiting for someone else to do it for you when you're perfectly cabable.

I've always been mechanically inclined, and that's something that my mother took advantage of. When the wire attached to the heating element in Mr. Coffee corroded & broke off, I had to fix it. When the clothes drier needed a belt replaced, I had to fix it. When the portable mixer smelled funny, I had to take it apart & clean the caked on powder from years of recipes out of it. I was but a wee lad at the time, but that's an excuse and excuses are not allowed.

Now that I own a home, I'm somehow magically supposed to know how to do everything just because I have a penis. I should "just know" how to install windows, cut holes in the roof for a dormer, replace brakes, lay down a tile floor & build kitchen cabinets from scratch. Well I have news for you, when things don't come out perfectly...it's because I'm not an expert and I'm learning this stuff as I go. You saved a boatload of cash by having me do it, and you got what you paid for. It leans a little to the left and there's a slight squeak. Get over it.

Wow...I musta needed to say that. ha ha

Mr. Eastern does most of the cooking as he is soo much better than i am.. I can do simple meals but he can watch the cooking shows and repeat the meal. I do the laundry and picking up the girl child at day care and put her bed.Why becuase i can do this.. We are a couple i guess that do not believe in stereotypes.. I guess its a good thing to say the least as we are good couple.
He is 9 years younger than me so hey it works. :thumbs:

necessity is the mother of invention

Have a whole collection of thoughts on this one, but I'm gonna need to save em for when I can come back with a little more time on my hands...

Excuse him ^^^ :) I think he's busy trying to get the door open on the service panel. :D









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at least he was able to FIND the service panel PF!

I did that with my daughters. I had them actually change a tire so they'd have the experience ... just in case. Still, I would hope they wouldn't have to unless they simply wanted to.

Of course, being old fashioned, I still hold the door for my wife (most of the time) when she gets into the car. It just feels right to me to do that. I guess if she complained, I would stop, but would probably feel a bit uneasy about it. In fact, I generally hold the door open for ladies entering a store or offer my seat if I'm sitting in a waiting room and notice a lady standing because no chairs are available.

I guess I don't think about that being gender bias. What do you laides think?

Some things are to do with physical strength and capabilties. He mows the lawn because his upper body strength means he can actually push it along without killing himself. He also does the electrical stuff because he has the diploma in electrical and electronic engineering. For the same reason he does the computer stuff.

However, we've both been a parent for exactly the same amount of time and in fact he's had more contact with babies and children than me, so how come, when the baby needs something other than food (the only job he physically can't do) it is me who has to assess what that need is, communicate it to him and then specifically ask him if 'he minds' taking care of it?

The lack of inequality in life works both ways and always will. A lot of it is to do with necessity, differences in brain physiology and biological programming. I am programmed so that I can't ignore the baby cry, I notice the second he stops and I can't think of anything but his needs when he is in distress. He is programmed not to be able to live without the home theatre system, therefore he knows how to hook it up to the TV!

OK, so I chose a trivial example but it's true.

After a read of the previous posts and a little laugh at some I have to have my say on this. Girls what I am about to say is in no way a slur at your gender, but it hints at something that one of the other's said about tyre changing. I was going to blockbuster one day and as I traveled up the road I noticed a parked car with a flat tyre. I thought nothing of it as I am sure that we have all seen flat tyre's on cars before. Anyway after I had finished at blockbuster and I was on my return home I saw the owner of the car who was wearing a red dress and heals, clearly going out somewhere notice that she had a flat tyre. During this observation of mine, I saw an RACV service van parked nearby and the guy going through the job of changing over the tyre.

Now it annoys me when people do this. Changing a tyre doesn't require strength. It comes down to correct leverage to undo the lug nuts that are on the tyre. Once they give the rest is easy. I think most males can change a tyre and there a quite a few women who can as well. What makes me laugh are the ditzy ones who just have no idea why their tyre is flat and expect it to change over on its own.

Another thing is fluid levels. Now we all know that their are important fluid levels that we are suppose to check in a car. They vary depending on the type of transmission and if the car has power steering or not. Just a quick run down:

Oil, water for the wipers, radiator fluid, brake fluid, power steering fluid, if it has an automatic transmission then their is the transmission fluid to check as well. Some manuals or stick shifts to those americans here also require transmission fluid as well.

The average person can read and in the owner's manual it shows you where these points are and what to use. It even shows you how to change a tyre and where to find the necessary components for this, i.e. jack and spare.

But alas people don't read and wonder why they have problems with the car. I have seen girl P plate drivers here, with a flat tyre on the phone ringing their boyfriend or dad to "come fix it".

These are just observations that I have seen nothing more, so make of it what you will.

I have never had a flat tyre or been in a car when someone else has had one, therefore have never had an opportunity for anyone to show me how to change one. I can do most things once I've been shown how, but if I were on my own with a flat tyre I'd call the AA for help.

I think there are more men out there who eat 3 meals a day, who don't know to cook, than women out there who have flat tyres on a regular basis and don't know how to change them.

As I said before though, I think men are interested in 'how things work' and women are more interested in 'how things make them and others feel' which means kids go to Dad when their bike needs fixing and Mum when they've scraped their knee.

What BOTH sexes tend to forget is that the other gender doesn't spring pre-programmed from the womb knowing how to do gender specific tasks, but that a lot of people come pre-programmed with a propensity to learn those tasks.

I guess the answer is "It shouldn't, and doesn't always, but sometimes still does."

I am another woman who would have no clue how to change a flat tire. That said, my boyfriend would have even less of a clue than me. When we are together, I am the one who does the "how things work" stuff - he just doesn't pay attention to detail enough to want to bother with it, or he's never been faced with a problem of that nature before and isn't interested in solving it. I usually end up phoning my dad to know how to fix things since Lake would rather hire someone to do it than do it himself.

As an archaeologist, I am studying in a field which for a long time was dominated by men. However, more and more women are studying archaeology. In fact, my professors (most of which are male) are wondering what an archaeological excavation will look like in 10 years. They worry because there will be less and less men to carry buckets and do the heavy lifting, which is a big part of the work. I admit that in general, the average women are not as physically strong as the average men, and that my professors may have a point.

:eek: I didn't even know "P plates" had wheels.

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We need better roads over here!!! :banghead:
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Thank you, Loulabelle.:) THAT... is exactly what this thread is about.:thumbs:

:D Glad to be of service sweetie! x

Don't tell that to Mary Leakey or Margaret Mead. ;)
(Yes. I know Peggy was an anthropologist, but she did a lot of "heavy lifting" in her field work. :) )