It’d be interesting to make a diagram with expected skills or skill sets for the two sexes over time. Changing a tire is definitely on its way out with fix-a-flat compressed air goop cans and “drive while flat” tires…but it’s always more attractive (regardless of your sex) and convenient to be able to DO THINGS rather than be ignorant/in…
It’d be interesting to make a diagram with expected skills or skill sets for the two sexes over time. Changing a tire is definitely on its way out with fix-a-flat compressed air goop cans and “drive while flat” tires…but it’s always more attractive (regardless of your sex) and convenient to be able to DO THINGS rather than be ignorant/incompetent.
The fighting bit shows Adam’s age. He doesn’t realize how many people are carrying concealed these days—the time of public macho confrontation is over. You are likely to get shot if you get out your car and shove someone.
As a 50 year-old man, my wife expects me to be able to do “man stuff”—build/remodel our house, basic car stuff, cut down trees, back a trailer, hunt (yes, skin and quarter a deer), confront a burglar, etc. And while she would be embarrassed for me to get into a stupid physical confrontation with a stranger, she would be appalled if I was not prepared for violence if it was necessary to protect her and/or our kids.
If I fail to pass on these skills to my kids (son and daughter) isn’t that on me? I wonder if Adam’s kids know how to change a tire or jump a car? It’s hilarious when people our age complain about “kids these days”. Didn’t we raise them?
It’d be interesting to make a diagram with expected skills or skill sets for the two sexes over time. Changing a tire is definitely on its way out with fix-a-flat compressed air goop cans and “drive while flat” tires…but it’s always more attractive (regardless of your sex) and convenient to be able to DO THINGS rather than be ignorant/incompetent.
The fighting bit shows Adam’s age. He doesn’t realize how many people are carrying concealed these days—the time of public macho confrontation is over. You are likely to get shot if you get out your car and shove someone.
As a 50 year-old man, my wife expects me to be able to do “man stuff”—build/remodel our house, basic car stuff, cut down trees, back a trailer, hunt (yes, skin and quarter a deer), confront a burglar, etc. And while she would be embarrassed for me to get into a stupid physical confrontation with a stranger, she would be appalled if I was not prepared for violence if it was necessary to protect her and/or our kids.
If I fail to pass on these skills to my kids (son and daughter) isn’t that on me? I wonder if Adam’s kids know how to change a tire or jump a car? It’s hilarious when people our age complain about “kids these days”. Didn’t we raise them?