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Hey Men, a question for you bros. (pg. 2)
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| AlphaStarred |
If a woman can do household repairs and I can't, it wouldn't make me resent her, but rather my own shortcomings. Every man should be able to learn to put together some Ikea furniture, if necessary, and shouldn't have to rely on his woman (or anyone else, for that matter) to do it, period.
Haven't met a woman yet who enjoys taking the initative of hammering plywood and assembling large furniture on her own, but if she vehemently insists, I ain't gonna argue with her! |
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| Vivid Boy |
"man work" creates callusoses. I don't want a handy from a pair of worked in rough woman hands that feel like she's wearing a welder's mit. if i close my eyes it'll feel like a dude is doing it. and nobody likes a hand job wit their eyes open. No I want a handy from smooth hands with maybe an oven mit. oven mits are nice and soft and have pictures of soothing deers on them.
i like my women girly. That's mainly because I came from an all male family surrounded by testosterone all my life. So i need a chick with extra estrogen to regulate me. I'm surrounded by dudes daily who talk about cars, football and how many girls they convinced to touch their penis. I like being able to sit back and watch my gf get excited about a special on Peaches at the produce store and having to ask me to open a jar. |
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| Silky Johnson |
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I LOVE building ! But then...former art student. I've always enjoyed working with my hands (lololol) and used to love sculpting. I even did well in mandatory shop class - I enjoyed doing the math and I liked the precise work of drafting, and then building stuff, especially carpentry, no joke.
I used to skip recess in elementary school and hang out in the shop or home ec. rooms, building or sewing, cooking, etc. |
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| Trance-M |
| quote: | Originally posted by Silky Johnson
Be honest, do you find it an affront to your manhood when a woman doesn't "need" you to do "man stuff"? Do you find women who can't figure stuff out for themselves a pain in the ass? Or is it more specific...do you want to be needed in some ways and not in others? |
No, but my wife still doesn't change summer to winter tyres and back at the car she drives. I would love it when she would do it :)
Problem is when things go wrong because she didn't ask for advice, it's even more work for me to fix it. But that's more in general, goes for men too. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| Haha what? I wouldn't do my own tire changeover either, even if I knew how. Imo THAT is man stuff, lol. |
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| DJ RANN |
I am a ing ninja at building .
In fact making anything really and fixing things is my forte. It's super weird - it's like I just understand mechanical and electronic devices just by glancing them. I've fixed every car I've ever owned (up to where it would need specialist tools or parts, then it goes to the garage).
It's got to the point that for anyone that knows me, if they have something that is broken, they bring it to me and I can either fix it or it's beyond repair. I mean anything and everything, from digital cameras to BB guns, to bicycles, to printers, to lamps, to computers, to phones and locks.
I built 20ft x 12ft above ground pool a couple of months back myself. It was ing hard work but got it done in the end and I'd never built a pool before or done pool plumbing and filter installation etc.
I kind of feel you either have it, or you don't. I've had both male a female friends try to teach themselves to be "handy" and you either have a knack for it or you don't.
Personally, I think it's fine if a woman doesn't. There's tons of my GF is good at that I'm ing hopeless at (like drawing/sketching, flower arranging & gardening, cooking/baking etc).
Every woman should know how to change a tire. You do not want to be stuck on a road, at night, in the middle of ing no-where just because you haven;t mastered the 4 minute task of changing your tire. You're a bad boyfriend/hubby if you don't teach this to your woman. |
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| Trancelover03591 |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ RANN
Every woman should know how to change a tire. You do not want to be stuck on a road, at night, in the middle of ing no-where just because you haven;t mastered the 4 minute task of changing your tire. You're a bad boyfriend/hubby if you don't teach this to your woman. |
What if the bf doesn't know how to do this himself? :nervous: |
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| Silky Johnson |
Oh CHANGE a tire, I thought you meant like, do my own summer/winter tire change over each season and hell new I ain't ever doing that. ALL car owners/drivers should know how to do that themselves. It isn't rocket science. And as I told my friend on FB, you can learn anything and everything from the people of YouTube. Heh.
edit// nope, I see you DID mean summer/winter tire change over. Yeah that, lol. Too much work. Man stuff! |
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| Lews |
There are certain things everyone should be able to do. Change a tire (if you have a car), cook a few good meals, build furniture from Ikea (if you like particleboard), etc. I don't think of any of those as being either male or female tasks, they're just general life skills.
Actual car repair, or alliances or whatever, if you like fixing that stuff, that's great. I don't think I've ever been into a girl who knew anything about any of that, but neither do I. That's what repairmen (repairwomen?) and mechanics are for. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by Silky Johnson
Yeah well, you'd be surprised how many men actually do. People lie to themselves about how "cool" they are with stuff like this, not just men...which is why I brought it up. So many people say they want one thing, but their actual behaviour often proves otherwise. |
There are a lot of social pressures that we know are arbitrary and silly but we still feel the pressure of them nonetheless. I know there's nothing to stop a man wearing a pink shirt and the idea that a colour can be emasculating is essentially absurd, but I'd still feel oddly uncomfortable wearing a pink shirt.
However, the idea of resenting my partner for taking away my manly duties just sounds unbelievably petty and insecure to me. I think it's equally stupid to expect your partner to do things just because they're a man/woman. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| I agree. Don't forget, people are mostly clueless. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Silky Johnson
Be honest, do you find it an affront to your manhood when a woman doesn't "need" you to do "man stuff"? |
Not at all.
As a matter of fact, ma petite is a farm girl, so she's way skilled than me anyway.
| quote: | Originally posted by Silky Johnson
Do you find women who can't figure stuff out for themselves a pain in the ass? |
Only if she's my proctologist.
Otherwise, nah, not at all.
| quote: | Originally posted by Silky Johnson
Or is it more specific...do you want to be needed in some ways and not in others? |
Not that I'm aware of. Maybe, but it's not something that has bothered me yet, so I wouldn't know. |
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