Back in the day. We just had (mostly men) who used tools to make things to improve their lives. The idea of a garage filled with tools, so we could fix and make things use to be common.
The work more physically suited to men was done mostly by men. Women, physically suited to different work, tended to be solving problems the same way. Sewing, cooking, midwifery, teaching, and so on.
What a lot of this comes down to is that the class of people who are cognitively rich and economically middle class went through a weird period where consumer-driven culture lessened the opportunities and needs to show that kind of DIY capability (probably due to the unfixability of some things and the move to
Not really. Manual labor has the unpleasant smell of redneck on it. Society will figure this out before long and make the connection. The "maker" i.e. handyman culture will be stigmatized as soon as Hollywood notices it's all male and all working with your hands.
It doesn't have to be all male. The kinds of things make spaces support are not necessarily only suited to adult male muscle mass. In fact, I'd wager most of it does not.
They use to be called Handy Men. (Score:3)
Back in the day. We just had (mostly men) who used tools to make things to improve their lives. The idea of a garage filled with tools, so we could fix and make things use to be common.
Re: (Score:1)
The work more physically suited to men was done mostly by men. Women, physically suited to different work, tended to be solving problems the same way. Sewing, cooking, midwifery, teaching, and so on.
What a lot of this comes down to is that the class of people who are cognitively rich and economically middle class went through a weird period where consumer-driven culture lessened the opportunities and needs to show that kind of DIY capability (probably due to the unfixability of some things and the move to
Re: (Score:0)
Re:They use to be called Handy Men. (Score:2)