Simple things that men are unable to do!

Re ‘man-looking’, my father specialised in long, alliterative curses, and one memory from way back was of him trying (evidently unsuccessfully) to find something in the glory-hole that was our cupboard under the stairs.

Loud expletives of ‘Crap and corruption! Shit and seduction!’ reached me and my mother in the kitchen - she unsuccessfully pretended to be shocked, while actually killing herself laughing.

I don't think it as anything to do with unable do it.

This applies to both men and women, they can't be bothered about doing it.
If something is not important to someone they wouldn't even think about it.

Re being unable to find things, dh once came home from a shopping trip to a big Asda, saying they didn’t have any loo cleaner.
No, none! No Harpic, no Toilet Duck, nothing. Yes, of course he’d looked! Yes, of course he’d looked properly!

To be entirely fair, he’s red/green colour blind, which doesn’t help, but after that little episode (resulting in hoots of incredulous laughter from me) he now asks staff if he can’t find something which is 100% bound to be there somewhere.

Dh drives mine more than I do*. I love my bus pass - no bother about parking, and if I have to wait more than 5 minutes for a bus, I get a bit miffed.

*he always asks, though.

Callistemon21

Grammaretto

Too true Lizzie and Callistemon at least things have improved since the days when an acquaintance, to whom I had offered a lift, asked me if my husband let me drive the car!.

I remember an orthopaedic surgeon advising me 50 years ago to "Get your husband to buy you a car".
I looked at him and said "If we need another car, I'll buy my own".

And I very occasionally let DH drive my car 😂

Grammaretto

Too true Lizzie and Callistemon at least things have improved since the days when an acquaintance, to whom I had offered a lift, asked me if my husband let me drive the car!.

I remember an orthopaedic surgeon advising me 50 years ago to "Get your husband to buy you a car".
I looked at him and said "If we need another car, I'll buy my own".

Unless it is producing babies you should never divide the world by gender. There are a very few exceptions but having faults is not one of them.
Both me and my partner would always tackle jobs that were considered the others gender just to show to people it could be done.

Too true Lizzie and Callistemon at least things have improved since the days when an acquaintance, to whom I had offered a lift, asked me if my husband let me drive the car!.

lizzypopbottle

It annoys me greatly when, while cutting the grass at the front of my house, people stop me and ask how come my son doesn't do it for me. Last time that happened, I was a little less patient than usual and told the person that while I'm perfectly capable of cutting my grass I will continue to enjoy doing it. I added that, if I asked him, he would do it but I like doing it!

People do have preconceived ideas about what's a 'man's job' and what's simply not fitting for a woman to do. 🤔

I used to do the scarifying, now a man wants £250 to do it 😲

It annoys me greatly when, while cutting the grass at the front of my house, people stop me and ask how come my son doesn't do it for me. Last time that happened, I was a little less patient than usual and told the person that while I'm perfectly capable of cutting my grass I will continue to enjoy doing it. I added that, if I asked him, he would do it but I like doing it!

People do have preconceived ideas about what's a 'man's job' and what's simply not fitting for a woman to do. 🤔

Things that men, that I can’t/don’t do. Get tops of bottles and jars, can’t get any device to work , change my tyres and put air in them without letting them down, open the petrol lock on my car, remove spiders without hurting them, the list is endless but somehow I manage, so there’s an awful lot this woman can’t do either.

😂😂😂

DH is good at "pink" jobs too.

Can I paint a ceiling? Of course but my hair ends up streaked with white. I'm not the tidiest painter in this house.

Play to your strengths.

Hetty58

Callistemon21, I wouldn't dream of dragging a monster bin anywhere. I just fill lightweight garden bags - and carry them to the bin these days.

Still, I often lose things and have great trouble finding them again - even when they were staring me in the face all along. I still climb ladders, move furniture and paint ceilings. I just do things much more carefully than ever before, that's all.

Why are male/female differences exaggerated and certain roles/jobs assigned? We can all do many things if we're determined to.

But you must know Hetty58 that there's definitely something called Pink And Blue Jobs 😁 and taking the bins out is def a blue job.

Perhaps that is one of the problems men have now with some women who are determined to prove they are not needed and to emasculate them.
Sorry but how are women emasculating men by doing things themselves?Unless you have very preconceived ideas about what is men's work and what is women's work that really can't happen.
I'd say the women who say their men can't do things simply because they are men are far more damaging. They infantilize men who still need their "mummies" to find things or tidy up.

Men and women are quite able to do most things, their abilities are not defined along the lines of sex.

Hetty58

Callistemon21, I wouldn't dream of dragging a monster bin anywhere. I just fill lightweight garden bags - and carry them to the bin these days.

Still, I often lose things and have great trouble finding them again - even when they were staring me in the face all along. I still climb ladders, move furniture and paint ceilings. I just do things much more carefully than ever before, that's all.

Why are male/female differences exaggerated and certain roles/jobs assigned? We can all do many things if we're determined to.

We can't really leave the bins at the front.

Why are male/female differences exaggerated and certain roles/jobs assigned? We can all do many things if we're determined to.
They're not exaggerated but there are differences in physiology.

I can't do everything I would like to either.

Perhaps that is one of the problems men have now with some women who are determined to prove they are not needed and to emasculate them.

Callistemon21, I wouldn't dream of dragging a monster bin anywhere. I just fill lightweight garden bags - and carry them to the bin these days.

Still, I often lose things and have great trouble finding them again - even when they were staring me in the face all along. I still climb ladders, move furniture and paint ceilings. I just do things much more carefully than ever before, that's all.

Why are male/female differences exaggerated and certain roles/jobs assigned? We can all do many things if we're determined to.

We’ve worked out what’s going on. He has a colour of the tool he’s looking for. Nine times out of ten it’s a different colour.

Men are far more likely to be colour blind than women; 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women approximately.

Biological fact.
Of course, they will need to use their brains to achieve the aim without having the physical attributes.
Or get someone else to find it!

The cant find something
Usually in our case it’s tool in his shed ^and there’s a lot)
He will come into me and say you know that so and so Yes 😉
i can’t see it anywhere
Downto the shed I go and lo and behold, there it is, in plain sight.
We’ve worked out what’s going on. He has a colour of the tool he’s looking for. Nine times out of ten it’s a different colour.

Hithere

Yes, I pass biology class

Man and women both have brains and can use them to get things done, despite lower or higher muscle mass

Yes, of course.

🤔

Yes, I pass biology class

Man and women both have brains and can use them to get things done, despite lower or higher muscle mass

My dh can’t sneeze quietly. It invariably sounds like a bomb going off.
Otherwise I have (hardly any) complaints.
I dare say he’d have an ‘interesting’ list about me, if I ever asked. Which I won’t!

Glorianny I wonder how we women who live all alone manage bins? (Clue- you don't drag it, you tip it and wheel it- that's why we have wheelie bins!)
I don't think anyone suggested women couldn't take the wheelie bin out, just that if it's extra heavy eg stuffed with garden waste a man probably would find it easier. I've struggled to tip ours on its wheels when there's been a lot of earth in it. In the general course of things a single person's bin will be a lot lighter than that of a household with lots of people in it, unless they're incredibly wasteful!

I call it 'man looking' Gundy. Both Mr. S. and DS will open a drawer or cupboard and claim they can't find something when they haven't actually looked.

That is a good explanation JackyB .

Callistemon21

Glorianny

Rosie51

Hithere

Calliste

Please tell me that was a joke

Are you truly denying that on average male muscle mass, influenced by their testosterone based puberty, isn't greater than females? Greater muscle mass means dragging a heavy bin to the kerbside will be easier for the male than the female.

I wonder how we women who live all alone manage bins? (Clue- you don't drag it, you tip it and wheel it- that's why we have wheelie bins!)

Of course you manage bins

But, unless you are a weight lifter (and yes, I know some females who are) then your muscle mass and strength would generally be less than that of a male.

Just that sometimes it is possible to use methods which achieve the aim without having the physical attributes.

Glorianny

Rosie51

Hithere

Calliste

Please tell me that was a joke

Are you truly denying that on average male muscle mass, influenced by their testosterone based puberty, isn't greater than females? Greater muscle mass means dragging a heavy bin to the kerbside will be easier for the male than the female.

I wonder how we women who live all alone manage bins? (Clue- you don't drag it, you tip it and wheel it- that's why we have wheelie bins!)

Of course you manage bins

But, unless you are a weight lifter (and yes, I know some females who are) then your muscle mass and strength would generally be less than that of a male.