Simple things that men are unable to do!

Opal

Seriously? Have we all completely lost our sense of humour? Can we really not have any light hearted banter between the sexes any more?
I can parallel park, I've never tried to put up a shelf, and if someone wants to joke about it, it's fine by me, I give as good as I get. Are we all turning into a nation of easily offended snowflakes?

Being divorced I have learn't /forced myself to DIY jobs I'd rather not. I still do them badly.

Sorry, that was directed to Foxygloves, not the OP.

Seriously? Have we all completely lost our sense of humour? Can we really not have any light hearted banter between the sexes any more?
I can parallel park, I've never tried to put up a shelf, and if someone wants to joke about it, it's fine by me, I give as good as I get. Are we all turning into a nation of easily offended snowflakes?

Feigning incompetence is the best way to get away with murder

Match it with gender roles and proper genitalia - bingo!

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Foxygloves

With all due respect, this makes me so cross.
My DH absolutely did not have the sort of shortcomings OP itemises, but to extrapolate from her personal experience that men are unable to do these is not light hearted banter but every bit as sexist as those dinosaurs who tell us not to “worry our pretty little heads” or claim women can’t parallel park or insist that only they can put up a shelf straight.
What century are we in for heavens sake?

Absolutely agree!

Foxygloves

With all due respect, this makes me so cross.
My DH absolutely did not have the sort of shortcomings OP itemises, but to extrapolate from her personal experience that men are unable to do these is not light hearted banter but every bit as sexist as those dinosaurs who tell us not to “worry our pretty little heads” or claim women can’t parallel park or insist that only they can put up a shelf straight.
What century are we in for heavens sake?

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I couldn't work DH's iPhone at all until I got one of my own several years later and found out how to do it

Thank you 'foxygloves'. As a grandfather I recognise the stereotype but do not conform to it, neither do any of my male friends. Never had a shed or a garage either.

Foxygloves

With all due respect, this makes me so cross.
My DH absolutely did not have the sort of shortcomings OP itemises, but to extrapolate from her personal experience that men are unable to do these is not light hearted banter but every bit as sexist as those dinosaurs who tell us not to “worry our pretty little heads” or claim women can’t parallel park or insist that only they can put up a shelf straight.
What century are we in for heavens sake?

Very well said Foxygloves, this type of thing has to stop, maybe change it to things some adults cannot do.

Im sure there are many things that many men are able to do, such as:

Hanging up clothes as opposed to dropping them on the floor
Taking their fair share of parenting/childcare duties
Shopping
Cooking
Generally tidying up
Life admin/keeping track of bills
And so on

Yet if the majority of the women on Mumsnet are to be believed men routinely avoid these tasks and duties by being (or appearing to be) useless at them. Or by "faffing about" in the shed/garage/bathroom to make time pass.

My DH, sadly now deceased, was just like yours Quizzer. If I was looking for a screwdriver, I had to look at the last job he had tackled and find an assortment of tools. I always had my own personal tool box!

With all due respect, this makes me so cross.
My DH absolutely did not have the sort of shortcomings OP itemises, but to extrapolate from her personal experience that men are unable to do these is not light hearted banter but every bit as sexist as those dinosaurs who tell us not to “worry our pretty little heads” or claim women can’t parallel park or insist that only they can put up a shelf straight.
What century are we in for heavens sake?

Mine is very adept at claiming he is no good at something...