Amazing ladies poll - how many of these 12 things can you do?

[Dargawn]

How many of these things can you do without assistance:

Add air to a tyre
Change oil
Change a wheel on your car
Fix a bike pucture
Put up shelving
Change a plug adhering to all safety advice and best practice
Put together a cabinet-size piece of flat pack furniture
Set up a home network
Diganose problem and mend toaster
Change element in an oven
Sort out a fuse box if lights go off
Turn off water at mains in case of leak

I can do none very confidently at the moment, but at a stretch might be able to do three.

I want to be able to do them all.

That is a fantastic name.

many women have been convinced that any traditionally male jobs are super hard and complex, while equivalent 'women's jobs' are nothing noteworthy.

This. Devaluing "women's" work is misogyny.

I'm a lot better at assembling flatpack than I am at cooking. Yet my day-to-day life would be better if my cooking skills were better than my furniture assembly.

I'm a lot better at assembling flatpack than I am at cooking. Yet my day-to-day life would be better if my cooking skills were better than my furniture assembly.

The OP's original list are all occasional activities, whereas a feminine list would consist of predominantly daily activities, in particular cooking.

Yes. My point is competence in stereotypically-masculine tasks shouldn't be what makes a woman amazing.

But this is the thing: most of these tasks, although seen as traditionally masculine, are pretty simple and don't require testicles to do them, although there are a lot of women out there who do seem to think they do (admittedly the oven element one is a bit niche).

In the same way, my male OH knows how to sew on a button, iron a pin crease, hand wash and dry cashmere, make a fucking doctor's appointment, phone his aged parents and cook a full roast dinner without destroying the kitchen or setting fire to anything.

These tasks shouldn't be gendered, they're ALL just things that grown-ups should be able to do.

I have also always lived alone and can do none of them. In fact as a tenant I'm not allowed to do quite a few of them.

I think I did change a plug once as a teenager, but haven't needed to since then.

I agree that these are unnecessarily gendered tasks and being able to do them don't make a woman particularly amazing, it just makes her someone who has had the occasion to learn them and taken the time to do so.

I can do all but change a plug, because I'm an immigrant and despite 20 years here have never needed to change a plug, and still don't quite understand the obsession with it as a skill. What are you all doing to your plugs?

By the same token I wouldn't raise an eyebrow if someone who doesn't cycle has no clue how to mend a puncture, or a non-driver shrugs at the car ones.

I don't know where the stop tap is. It's possible that I don't even have one and it's central for the whole place ( a house with my flat in it).

I'm proud I don't use a car. It helps the planet. I also understand that some people do need cars of course.

Ah yes, I would like to learn how to use the fire extinguishers in my office. Last time I was taught anything about them was almost 30 years ago. Living within your means is easy if you earn enough...

None, I could theoretically turn off the stopcock if I knew where it is. I don't have a car so that excludes the first few. I also have dyspraxia so thing like putting up a shelf requires far too many hands

Yes. That's why I don't care that I can't put up furniture. It's a once in a decade task for me.