Male Fixations

Male Fixations

Summary:

Most of guys think it’s their responsibility to fix things well instead of cleaning the bathroom. Or a guy can just go into a bathroom rather than clean it, because he is afraid of facing a problem of Mechanical Emergency. The author gives a example for that. A guy would ultimately say there is nothing wrong with the commode after he pretends he knows how to fix it, and even the commode keeps making so loud groaning noise that seems to have a baby commode soon. Author blames his non-ability for tonsillitis which happened in his ninth grade that he missed the lesson of mechanicalness. His college roommate, Rob, just like some guys can fix things well, comparing with him, author would be puzzled with toolbox. And another experience of author is he lied to the salesman he can repack a bearing even he totally knew nothing about that. He did so because the salesman said “all guys come out of the womb with this instinctive ability to repack a bearing” and he didn’t want to be laughed.

He always answers to his wife that there is ever anything wrong with anything. He uses positive reasons to respond the troubles such as the engine with the grinding sound and a big hole and the abnormal hall light switch due to electrocuted houseguests with sparks from their body in the hall. Lastly he concludes that it is guy’s natural tendency to perform they can control the situation even they actually can’t. He instances that it’s just in a second before the Titanic slipped into the sea, there are still some guys explaining to his mate that everything is perfectly normal. Or the federal leadership tells citizens it’s no problem with budgets.

Reflection:

I don’t think the guys must have a great ability to fix things whether the girls must should do all the housework. It is not shame to admit that what things you can’t do. Refusing to admit the fact is only to cause a larger problem. Also, just to ask someone for a hand is that hard? No, for sure. Some guys don’t do this simple acts is just because of their sense of self-respect and face. They think it’s a kind of ways to show their manhood. But it doesn’t seem effective if you did it. Because the problems are still not solved, and it may become worse day by day. However, if you don’t have a mechanical ability and you also want to fix things by yourself, then you can learn such skills rather than cheating others like Beth, or blaming it on you miss the lesson in school. As our leaderships of government, too much of them like to give notion a bad check. They always think the situation they could control it well at beginning. But in the end, not every incident goes as smooth as they thought at first. And sometimes they even had known the result before, yet they still as Beth to deny the fact and pretend everything is in control. So I think it all due to a one reason that the face and self-respect or pride are taking too much in guys. In some cases, to look for talents is as well as a good and quick way to solve the problems.