to have a rant about wussy women?

[ChaosTrulyReigns]

It is possible that women in this day and age can:

mow the lawn
have theur very own email address
drive when their hubby [bleurgh] is in the car
fill the car with petrol
sleep in the house without hubby being there.

I know you're ickle and cute and pwecious, but, ffs, man up.

Blimey, some people really will use any opportunity for a bit of Feminism-bashing

It was light hearted, people !

(and they say feminists are humourless < shakes head ruefully >)

The only things I don't do are either things I don't want to do, or things I can't do.

So yeah, lots of stuff that might be considered by others as "manly" but that's to do with my lack of strength and mobility. If I could drill and hammer and paint and mow lawns, I would. I consider it to be my role as the only adult in the house to be able to do those things, and I am frustrated that I can't.

However, I dislike driving. Just really didn't enjoy it when I had a few lessons, so I have chosen to not learn. I don't think that makes me pathetic. I can get around on public transport no problems and navigate to places I've never been, and if I am desperate the people I'd ask for help are equally male and female.

I've flirted and batted my eyes to get things done, don't think that's ever been gender specific behaviour though. And I don't consider it manipulation, just asking very nicely.

I live alone, I cope alone and I do a good job most of the time. I had a good example in my mum as we were often alone for large portions of the year, so she just got on with it, driving us from Germany through to Calais through to Dover through to Glasgow, no worries. Dad did the DIY, but he was a carpenter so best qualified. Taught me though, and I could do a fair job before I got all weak and useless.

My gardener mows the lawn.

I kick ass at flatpack furniture though. And last time I had a workman here, and he asked if I had a wrench, he was most impressed by the size of my toolbox. And I was very impressed with his

Haven't read the entire thread, but I dint mow the lawn because I just can't be bothered! I could do it... I'd just rather not.

Everything else I can/do do without a problem.

I don't do heavy jobs because there are three men (DP, DSS1, DSS2) with an awful lot more muscles than me in this household. And they have much more sedentary lives than me anyway and can do with the exercise, whereas I could do with a bit less exercise!

Fluffy woman syndrome, Chaos, that's what it's called.

DP is typing this for me now because I can't work a computer.

Don't mow the lawn because I would be streaming with snot and unable to see after the first 'line' due to being very allergic to cut grass.

Don't have my very own email address as I don't see the point - mind you neither does DH, apart from for work.

Everything else in OP I will happily do, though I might have to seethe quietly while DH comments on my driving (grrr), or slap him if I'm not in a gracious mood.

LeQueen my DH will often get me to deal with 'authority and beaurocracy' because I am much scarier than him when angry

Oh and I love a bit of flatpack construction!

I have a hunky gardener to mow the lawn - he even takes his shirt off sometimes and I have a secret ogle.

I drive my husband a lot - we have a long journey to see parents and i always do half.

I have my own email address, , and have just filled both cars with petrol( bit of panic buying there) and will shortly be going to bed on my own as my dh is away. He will be collected and driven home by me from the airoport tomorrow night.

however, anything heavy like putting a bag of salt in the water softner or lifting heavy shopping is his job as he is much bigger and stronger than me and I have a dodgy back! All building work is his whilst all finance and admin are mine becuase we each do what we are best at.

I adore dealing with 'Officialdom'! I can shout be quite the Authoritarian!

My pet hate is women who make man-flu look inconsequential. Suffering hath no equal...

older ladies who've not learnt to drive because their husband does, but then as they age, the husband can't drive around anymore and they are effectively trapped in the house, or always waiting around for their husbands to take them somewhere very simple
My mother . And she has actually learnt but hasn't practiced at all

I did all the flatpack assembly. Easy.

And handled a large nitrogen tank at over 6 months pregnant too. I only asked blokes to take it when full down the ramp as I am too light.

The thing you must understand is men are better at practical jobs and women are better at dealing with feelings, looking after children and cooking.

PSYCHE!

I am a landscape gardener by trade and widows/divorcees are my bread and butter. They are often very impressed I can mow but I point out it's the same action as hoovering/pushing a pram!

I refuse to have anything to do with the car (apart from driving it hard and fast ). This is not because I am a feeble little woman but because DH make a mountain out of the tiniest bit of housework so I figure that if he won't change the bed I'm certainly not changing the oil

amothersplace I don't take my shirt off when mowing like your gardener...though I feel there may be a market for that!

I refuse to let DH near a steering wheel because he's a godawful driver. So I drive. I drive here, I drive abroad, I drive on ice, in the dark and towing trailers. I can and do reverse 7.5ton trucks down narrow wobbly foreign streets. I used to drive Scotland to Poland every month and even read my own maps (gosh, eh?). And it PISSES ME OFF that I still get treated like a wussy woman driver.

And as for mowing lawns, I was mowing bloody fields unsupervised from the age of 9 in a tractor with 16 gears and a booster cushion on the seat.

Damn right these wussy women are a sodding embarrassment.

Must show my husband this thread. I drive - he has no license. We have no lawn but 'tis me keeps the bushes from eating the house whole, I have several email addresses to his one, I own an impressive collection of power tools and LOVE assembling flatpack...now I write this I realise I've just done our tax return while he was upstairs hoovering and generally tidying the mess.

I am an alpha male woman who thankfully married a clean freak. My mother says we are unnatural and our daughter will be 'turned into a lesbian' (I suspect she thinks I am gay as clearly only gay women know how to use a sander).

yes, I am shit at parking and reversing and DH isn't and I know I'm a disgrace to woman kind for admitting it.

I'm perfectly happy to put petrol in the car and could no doubt work out oil water and screen wash if I had to. Like wise I know how to change a tyre Haven't done it for a very long time, there are perks to married life.

no qualms at all about driving any where in the UK at any time of day with a good old fashioned map as well as my Sat nav. Actually I prefer maps, her route to my parents is barmy.

I confess I let DH do the wrong side of the road because he's done a lot more of it with work. Also I'm dyslexic and I get my lefts and rights in a twist and foreign place names in a muddle. Neither of these things is very helpful when trying to get in the right lane in a strange city.

"It is possible that women in this day and age can: mow the lawn
have their very own email address
drive when their hubby [bleurgh] is in the car
fill the car with petrol
sleep in the house without hubby being there."

I do all of those regularly. I do know some women (all older than me) where their husbands won't let them drive. OH loathes driving and had me behind the wheel before I had passed my driving test. If I don't fill my car with petrol it won't get filled. I usually mow the lawn and OH is often away on business. Oh, and I have always had my own email address.

I put some air in my tyres today, and filled up the washer reservoir. I always put my own petrol in my car as I'm generally the one driving it and dh is off at work. I don't think he'd be very pleased if I asked him to come home from work and meet me in town because my car needed filling up.

I have a rumble coming from underneath which I think might be a wheel bearing going. I must remember to ring the garage and tell them and also book it in for its service and Mot next month. And the brake pads are looking a bit thin. Think it's going to cost me.

The back lawn does need mowing but I'm not heaving that bloody monster of a lawnmower round the garden. Dh likes gardening and the mower is another one of his toys.

I am cack-handed at anything practical so dh does the diy as he enjoys it, is very good at it and knows how to do things like re-wire a house etc which I do not know. He works with stuff like that so knows regs etc.

He will occasionally clean a toilet or hoover or dust or wash up, although he does sometimes look a bit annoyed at it. I take this to be because I am a SAHM and have plenty of time for jobs like this whereas he works all week and doesn't want to have to do everything. Not because I am a woman.

I cook, clean, shop, manage admin, children, the occasional bit of tricky stuff like putting pictures up (cack-handed) but we both put bins out. If it needs doing, the next available person usually does it. I tend to do more stuff around the house simply because I choose to be at home and therefore I can get on with it and do it.

Oh and I have my own email address.

We both hate decorating so we get a man in. Or woman, not fussed.

Think that's it.

I was brought up in a family of all men, as was my mother - bothbof us the only girl in our generations, including cousins: she one girl/11 boys, me one girl/8 boys. Were we to refuse to do something practical we would be laughed all the way to the next village. I can do car maintenance, DIY, sort things out in a difficult situation, etc. My dad always made sure I would never be dependant on a man - unless it was a trained specialist! :) I do like it when DP fixes a drippy tap, but I don't have to have him here to do it. Oh my Ddad must have been a bit of a feminist enabler even back in the day. ;)