Originally Posted by
livedarklions
Also, pretty ridiculous that masculinity is somehow the ideal for this. I've gotten some damn good roadside advice from a woman bike mechanic who just happened to be riding by. Just shows how gender imbalanced BF is that someone gets away with the implied put-down of femininity.
Many years ago, when I was moving from Chicago to Seattle, my heater started to leak and car smelled of antifreeze. I pulled off in some small town in Idaho and found a garage. The WOMAN mechanic on duty quickly diagnosed the problem and hooked up a bypass hose to skip the heater system. Made it to Seattle. I did not really address the issue until Winter came along and being without heat became untenable. But SHE really helped.
But I was a "liberated" male before that - my women friends made sure of that! Besides my dad did not know which end of a hammer to use (excellent professional photographer, though) - mom did all those small chores in our apt!