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
WTF? Troll? I am saying that women were just as imaginative as men, but focused on different problem domains. That's trolling? FU, Slashdot SJWs. I am so sick of this bullshit. Apparently noticing men have greater muscle mass on average than women is now sexist.
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.
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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:They use to be called Handy Men. (Score:3)