Women, and their understanding of the physical world ?

[Carthage]

Cliftonite said:

They are not genders, they are sexes.

No, I meant gender, as distinct from sex, to refer to what I perceive as the socially constructed aspects.

[RobGT81]

Mine is convinced that in a RWD car, the rear wheels steer. Because that is what the 'drive' bit means, obviously..

[davepoth]

Carthage said:

Cliftonite said:

They are not genders, they are sexes.

No, I meant gender, as distinct from sex, to refer to what I perceive as the socially constructed aspects.

Indeed. I know men who are spectacularly inept in exactly the fashion being described here. In the past, women were effectively taught to be crap at "man things" from an early age, but it seems it's a growing menace for both genders these days.

[Silver]

Is this another one of those threads where people post about how stupid they consider their wife/girlfriend/fiancee to be for some spurious reason to try and curry favour with the PH misogynists? I thought there was a whole separate thread for that. Do you tell your OHs that you post on an internet forum about how stupid you really think they are? How do you think they might feel about that?

I assume that none of you ever consider that knowing two to five women (estimate, for the inevitable pedant who decides to point out that they actually know six women who do said thing) who do a particular thing doesn't mean that the entire female population also do that thing. Really, this kind of st is getting tedious on PH.

[VinceFox]

As long as they understand to leave after being paid, i don't care.

[Carthage]

VinceFox said:

As long as they understand to leave after being paid, i don't care.

Watch you don't break a nail prising their fingers from your...



.....doorframe.

[VinceFox]

Carthage said:

VinceFox said:

As long as they understand to leave after being paid, i don't care.

Watch you don't break a nail prising their fingers from your...



.....doorframe.

I'll be too busy picking them out me arse.

[Evoluzione]

Carthage said:

Why does everything have to be gendered?

Because humans like to label and sort things into categories.

This thread has just become another 'Things that women say' type thread which is somewhere else.

My observation of women (when driving) is their complete lack of foresight. They seem completely unable to drive up to a roundabout when it's clear and join the traffic without stopping and thinking about it.

Apart from that you're all great.

Now where's my dinner?

[funkyrobot]

Silver said:

Is this another one of those threads where people post about how stupid they consider their wife/girlfriend/fiancee to be for some spurious reason to try and curry favour with the PH misogynists? I thought there was a whole separate thread for that. Do you tell your OHs that you post on an internet forum about how stupid you really think they are? How do you think they might feel about that?

I assume that none of you ever consider that knowing two to five women (estimate, for the inevitable pedant who decides to point out that they actually know six women who do said thing) who do a particular thing doesn't mean that the entire female population also do that thing. Really, this kind of st is getting tedious on PH.

I know seven women who do this particular, funny thing.

[davepoth]

Evoluzione said:

My observation of women (when driving) is their complete lack of foresight. They seem completely unable to drive up to a roundabout when it's clear and join the traffic without stopping and thinking about it.

Here are some statements.

People who have an interest in cars tend to be better at driving them.
People who were given toy cars as young children tend to have an interest in cars.
Young boys are more likely than girls to be given toy cars.

Disagree with any of that?

Nobody is moaning about your sewing skills.

[Carthage]

davepoth said:

Here are some statements.

People who have an interest in cars tend to be better at driving them.
People who were given toy cars as young children tend to have an interest in cars.
Young boys are more likely than girls to be given toy cars.

Disagree with any of that?

Nobody is moaning about your sewing skills.

Evidence?

[Evoluzione]

Carthage said:

Evidence?

Of my sewing skills?

[Carthage]

Evoluzione said:

Of my sewing skills?

Yes.
And the rest.

[mildmannered]

Mine will have the central heating on all day, then open the windows when it gets hot.

Tumble dry laundry when the sun is shining or dry and breezy outside.

She will also put lamps on whilst it is still quite light "because it looks nice"

Then proceed to criticise me for leaving a light on in a room I am in an out of declaring "you moan at me for wasting money"

If I didn't love her so much, I would have killed the bh a long time ago!

[GadgeS3C]

Speed addicted said:

My wife and her sister are completely incapable of understanding the gears on mountain bikes. I've explained the theory, I've showed them and they still just don't get it.
I now shout which digit to use to get easier or harder gears.

I've been given permission to say that sounds familiar

Do you have to do chain ring as well?

[sjc]

My wife wanted a tennis racquet for her birthday.
She insisted I tell the shop assistant she was left handed.

[Hooli]

mildmannered said:

Mine will have the central heating on all day, then open the windows when it gets hot.

Tumble dry laundry when the sun is shining or dry and breezy outside.

She will also put lamps on whilst it is still quite light "because it looks nice"

Then proceed to criticise me for leaving a light on in a room I am in an out of declaring "you moan at me for wasting money"

If I didn't love her so much, I would have killed the bh a long time ago!

sounds familiar.

[Carthage]

doogz said:

Mine does this with the oven, she'll turn it to 200 when she only needs 150, because she thinks it'll heat up quicker.

But when trying to bring something to the boil on the hob, pasta, rice, something like that, she'll only turn it about half way up, then complain that it's taking so long.

Mind-bogglingly stupid.

You seriously don't understand why you set the oven higher than the cooking temperature to preheat it?

[Carthage]

doogz said:

Nope, although if I've been missing something all these years, please enlighten me.

If I want the oven at 150, I turn it to 150, and when the orange light goes off, it's at 150.

And do you cook with the oven door open, or shut?

[Getragdogleg]

doogz said:

Carthage said:

You seriously don't understand why you set the oven higher than the cooking temperature to preheat it?

Nope, although if I've been missing something all these years, please enlighten me.

If I want the oven at 150, I turn it to 150, and when the orange light goes off, it's at 150.

Then you open the door to insert your soon to be cooked food and let some heat out, if you start off with more heat then when you close the door it will probably still be around the original target temp.

*man cooking*