From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!lime!burdvax!bmcjmp
Newsgroups: net.singles
Title: RE: cooking
Article-I.D.: burdvax.322
Posted: Mon Nov  8 14:34:27 1982
Received: Tue Nov  9 05:18:39 1982

To the best of my recollection, most of the net resonses to this were
submitted by males; whileI am no longer a single, I am definitely fe-
male, so here goes.

Yes, I know the difference between a Phillips and a "blade" screwdriver.
I could probably change a tire if the need arose, and I don't have to 
get my husband to help turn the queen-size matress. My last job was as
a potwasher, and I had to fight to get that. The manager (this was at a
college dining hall) was of the opinion that only the guys could be pot-
washers, what with all the heavy lifting. If she had said that I was too
short to reach into the vats to clean them, she might have been right.
But the reaction, "That's no job for a girl", was ridiculous. Don't get 
the impression that I am particularly strong, because I'm not. It's just 
would feel I was being lazy if I didn't do my share of the work.

As for mechanichal tinkering, I have been good at getting the sewing ma-
chine to work, and playing with the piano mechanism when it bogs down,
convincing the telephone I broke to work again, and have been learning
about cars. When I worked in the dishroomat college, if something didn't
work on one of the machines, and I was around, They would ask me if I
could do something about it before calling maintainence.

Did any of this make me feel "unfeminine"? Actually, it made me feel use-
ful, sometimes even intelligent. I never worried about being "femenine".
Nor was I trying to be a Feminist. I just try to be a real person.

		Barb, glad to be myself