MilSpecs wrote: ↑Fri Dec 14, 2018 3:21 pm
Ph64 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 14, 2018 3:00 pm
MilSpecs wrote: ↑Fri Dec 14, 2018 2:35 pm
You're assuming most men have an interest in manual labor and that women can't learn the trades.
OMG, not at all, I think women can learn all those things. But it certainly seems like they don't/aren't to a large degree. Why is that?
I'm just thinking if you're planning on taking over the world you might want to think about having more women take up those roles that make modern society function. If you want to alienate/blame men don't be surprised when they just "turn off, drop out", which according to the news is already happening to a degree... you might want to plan on taking up those things yourselves.
The sad thing to me is that with all the modern instantaneous communication we have we haven't at all grown more together and cooperative, but rather more at odds. Somehow it seems the thinking is the only way to "be happy" is to be on top, to have control and run it all. I'm honestly glad I probably won't be alive in 40-50 years to see what the world is like then at the rate we're going.
We may be alive in 40-50 years the way medical advances are going. That said, it's obviously a time of great upheaval. I'm cautiously optimistic and think we'll work it out.
I think women don't learn the trades because they weren't 'apprenticed' like their brothers. My dad learned plumbing as a child along with his brothers, but his female cousins weren't taught. It just wasn't done. I wasn't taught any trade skills at all, but my brother was. Tasks were gender segregated.
I can see that. of course, were your dad's cousins interested/asking to be taught/learn? So have you learned plumbing since? Are you teaching your daughters of having their father teach them? And... If not, why not?
My dad never taught me plumbing, but I learned once I was a homeowner. My grandfather was a TV repairman (back in the days), so I learned some electronics there, but mostly taught myself digital electronics/computers/programming reading his 73/radio-electronics magazines, plus a lot of other tech stuff in popular science, and just reading the databooks on tubes/transistors/components/theory he had, on my own. Most of what I know about car repair is self-taught (reading/researching). Seems to me if you're interested in something you'll make an effort to learn more about it?
We have the power of the internet, millions upon millions of pages of information on every topic imaginable *if* you want to learn. It's not my fault if you're only interested in cat videos and texting people.
