Summary:
In this article, most every man thinks that they know how to fix things, and to fix things is a historically responsibility for every man. Therefore, they consider that cleaning bathroom is not their business because they always need to stand by to fix things when mechanical emergency breaks out.
In the common situation, when one’s wife informs them that the commode has some problems, their husbands would take action to fix the commode through lots of complex procedures. However, the author, Dave Barry, dons not seem to be the same as other men. He doesn’t fix anything. He blames that on tonsillitis. Because something happened before, he is intimidated by mechanical guys.
Therefore, he has some approaches that he can disguise his mechanical tonsillitis and deny that there’s ever anything wrong with anything. It seems that the author often succeeds to disguise his mechanical tonsillitis, and the way he uses is to pretend not to know. For example, the author needs to re-packs the bearings in his job, but he pretends to know how to re-pack. He doesn’t admit that he can not re-pack because he is afraid other men will laugh at him and hive him a noogie.
At the last, the author makes a conclusion that guys have a natural tendency to act as though they are not in control of the situation even when they are not. He takes Titanic as an example to explain that men often use to want to control the situation even if that situation is very bad.
Response:
In the common, girls will consider that guys are good at fixing mechanical facilities. However, this is a fault sense. In my point of view, girls in this generation can also do what men do so we should renew new ideas as times forward.
With this old thinking, men always use this excuse to escape from doing housework because they consider that to fix broken things is their responsibilities rather than cleaning things. Therefore, they throw all house works to women. Then, another reason results from old thoughts. In older generation, most family value the male child only so most parents would asks women to do housework. Take me as an example; my mother also has this old thought so she considers that my elder brother should not do housework. Only when those housework need to use power to be finished, my brother would be asked to do at that time.
In my opinion, I think that fixing mechanical can not only men’s responsibilities, but also women’s responsibilities. On the other words, women can do things which belonged to men in old thoughts. I think that women’s abilities would not worse than men’s. Take my story as an example; I am more sensitive about machines than my elder brother. Sometimes I can quickly fix some machine trouble which my brother doesn’t know how to fix. Therefore, we need to have newly thoughts because we live in E generation, and we should have equal thoughts. Then we can share the same rights no matter you are male or female in this society.
To sum up, what we think is changed as that time goes by. We should not keep standing in traditional circle, and just be trapped. We should get rid of it and update new thoughts. Only we can do is not to divide things clearly into women’s or men’s. Thus, everything will become much fairer.
Promoting the conception of neutral gender in contemporary society , the primary task, I think ,is to make both male and female have fair cooperation in house working aspects. Those notorious thinking like you have mentioned," She considers that my elder brother should not do housework", so do my mother do that to me. She thinks that children could be a competent trouble maker rather house work assistance.
回覆刪除At first I am happy about that because I have nothing to do bout lie on the couch become a competent audience. Watching a series of battle between my sibling and families dealing with terrible cockroach, annoying dust and everything bad else. I am appreciating for my mom's wise decision. However, I only had good time before I become a undergraduate and live in the dorm. The first guest knocked my door was not my roommate but….. a reputation. The reputation is I have to do all things myself.
No generous mother would spare you, no kind sisters would pity you and dealing with those thorny stuff for you voluntarily. But after I make my room tidy, there is somehow a sense of achievement arouse in worn out spirit. I am hilarious despite of a worn out body. My experience told me that to make everyone participated in a work could benefit of them. You will feel that someone needs you, you are replaceable.
To sum up, male and female should negotiate with each other, to make them know that is not a work but duty.
Owe to the old convention thoughts; the old generation seems to put the responsibility of house working on the female children. It is unfair. I do not believe women have less ability to do things well. On the contrary, I believe women can do things well than men. In this new generation, everything becomes differ from before. We all should admit the fact. Grandparents and parents should not keep men away from these house works. They have the responsibility as women to do something for their house, their family.
回覆刪除However, men always find the excuses to keep away from house works. The men who do not help with house works always say that they work for all day because of their responsibility to earn money. What a big joke! In this new era, things change a lot. Sometimes, women have ability to earn much money than men. Therefore, for men, it is not fit to be dignity because of their gender. Most men I knew act with proud and have no ability do things well. Maybe they can try to do house works and be content with that.
I also don’t consider that man must have to repair the article destroyed or woman should do all housework. These things not certainly belong to woman or man. A man can go to clean the bathroom, for example, a woman can also get on top of the roof to fix something. It doesn't mean that who should necessarily to do these works. I think it just depend on who have such ability and are willing to do so. Thus, we should help each other when we face the problem, but not to demarcate it or even throw the duty to others.
回覆刪除Today the woman and the man are equally. The time of the society has changed. Every person, no matter who you are, has to learn the skill of cleaning and fixing. It is not only because the time has changed, but also we do should be more independent. We can’t expect what difficult problem may happen at the next moment and we either wonder is there a Prince Charming would come to rescues you. So, it is better to count on yourself than others. Why not trying to learn how to fix things by yourself, woman. As meanwhile, man can surely clean the bathroom by their hands. God helps those who help themselves. I believe it’s very fair for all people to do so.