Should women be allowed to do everything men do?

[Hullygully]

Talk to me about equality.

Fanks.

Despite being a gentleman mumsnetter with very weak wrists (racnteurs wrist is an actual medical condition I just made up)

I find a few taps aronund the rim of the jar with a knife is usually sufficent to open the most stubborn of jars.

Failing that I had the foresight to aquire a very strong wife.

Hully - you don't learn do you

I am SO pleased about that! :)

I like cupcakes. I like them so much that I have a little hobby business selling them. Have got a couple of weddings to do this summer.

Don't like bunting though.

And I'm doing an MA in women & gender studies, so I think I may be allowed on the submarine. I even know how to push buttons, and use power tools.

But spelling myso misogn misge sexism is beyond me. (Shame, given the MA)

Wimminz shouldn't be allowed to call anybody a misogynist, but menz can call women misogynists. They can call women misandrists, too, but so can wimminz so that part's equalist.

See, I have learned something from being on the fwr board

I can't make cupcakes. Does this mean I'm a man?

Allowed?! Time warp? Or is this a joke...?

Garlic, do you ET them? Real men don't

I must be a real man, Kickass, as I have no fucking clue how to ET a cupcake

hmm, perhaps I meant eat. silly me and my ipad, can never get the hang of it.

We Real Men don't ET quiche or cupcakes. We're too busy lifting heavy things and working machinery.

Would like me to stick your eyelashes back on for you? Hold still ... ... There! You're so pretty, you know, you could easily do without those. Must be off, that pile of wood won't chop itself.

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I seem to have morphed into the absurd hero of an airport novel. Any minute now, I'll be immobilising Hully with recently-purchased DIY items prior to wordlessly shagging her in assorted ridiculous locations.

ooh, you;ve made me come over all unnecessary

I can't swing a hammer because of my mahoosive bazookas

haven't got bazookas :(

Yes I do. I believe in equality. We are different-but equal. I like to think I have my own version of GIRL POWER!!

Different but equal is usually used as a tool to engrain and justify sexism. We are not really that different at all. The UK used to think women were so different they could not qualify as doctors.
Harry Enfield is quite funny on these issues:

I love this thread. It has given me "champagne feminism" and the mental image of Hully rocking up in her sub at Xenia's island.

I am a cava feminist

love that slug

Yes, I like the sub and island visual image - in my head at least.
Humans like a range of hobbies and when we categorise all girls into just doing XYZ hobbies and boys ABC is does limit them more than is needed.
Sadly even today a lot of women go into very low paid areas of work of low value and men don't and that needs to be addressed too.

I'm on my way, Xenia. Turn left at Panama, I believe. I'm bringing M Bonsoir who has purchased a special stripey nautical sweater in honour of the occasion.

I am a cava feminist

Ooh hark at Ms Fancydrawers, I am a babycham femininst.

Well, women shouldn't be allowed to do everything that men DO, because lots of the things that men DO, nobody should be allowed to do, IYSWIM.

I don't have the budget to be a champagne feminist.

I'll see your "babycham feminist" and raise you lambrini feminist.

Or perhaps that should be "lower" rather than "raise".

I am a Ribena feminist.