On 6/7/2012 11:22 PM, Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
On Fri, 8 Jun 2012 01:29:57 +0000 (UTC), Jules Richardson
wrote:

On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 15:03:50 -0700, jgharston wrote:
And I've always wondered how valid this "men never went in the kitchen"
thing was.

The kitchen is for cleaning engine parts... everyone knows that!

It's odd the number of blokes who would happily cook for themselves
and learned to sew, clean, mend kit, etc, in the forces, yet were
utterly handless when it came to doing it home. Some of that, of
course was role-playing, and territory and many women of that
generation resented the hubbie's presence in the kitchen.
Otoh, the number of males nowadays who know how to sew on a button or
mend a tear is vanishingly small. Fs, it's hardly rocket science.

The number of _women_ who know how to sew on a button is vanishingly
small, too.