Male Fixations

Summary:

In “Male Fixations,” Dave Barry claims that most guys regard themselves as mechanical guys, but not a responsible clearer. According to Barry, one guy can ignore aged dirty on commode in their bathroom, but they have a sense of responsibility to fix the commode when it breaks down.
However, not every man has innate ability to repair things well. Take Barry as example, He admits that he never repair anything indeed. This fact let him feel menacing. On one occasion, when he got his boat trailer, a salesman told him that he should “re-pack” the “bearing” every many miles. This salesman’s tone just like it is only right and nature. But Barry didn’t actually know what a “bearing” was. In order to hide his weakness on mechanics, his tip is pretend nothing happened when something is wrong.
Even his wife, Beth, who tells him there is a breakdown around their living; he would pretend that there is not any abnormal phenomenon. Finally, he argued that not merely mechanics, every man has instinct to behave they are in control of any situation, even if they are not. For example, before the Titanic sank in the ocean, maybe there were some guys still pretended clam and explained to his wife that it was a normal situation for furniture sliding up the walls.

Reflexion:

It seems a stereotype that men should have innate ability to manage matter on fixing some appliances...or at least, when something around the house breaks, it gets handed to the nearest guy to fix it. For example, when there is leaking in the kitchen, rather than calling professional mechanic to fix it, women always ask men who around them for help. But most men never learn how to repair things before and general schools also don’t teach it. In my opinion, there is a major reason could explain this strange situation.
This major reason is traditional concept; in the ancient society, men’s main job was hunting and fishing. And these jobs need some tools like arrow, lance and fishing net. In order to get food, they need make and repair tools by themselves. Naturally, fixing becomes man’s job. Besides, fixing is considered as a heavy work, women always believe that men are so strong that could move any kinds of stuffs in the house. So, there is no doubt that real man need know how to fix stuff.
However, although everyone focus on sexual equality in the modern society, men still need burden lots of preconceptions; for instance, they should fix stuffs or move heavy things. If they couldn’t do this, they would not be a real man. But I believe that this strange stereotype would be changed in one day.
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