Have you noticed that some posts about women could be said about any genre?...

Makes me glad i live alone.

Sewing is not just for women as it happens. The best haute couture names belong to men. And the word "tailor" brings a memory of a man who made other man´s troussers.

It bothers me a lot because I have been respected all my life and have seen the harm that lack of respect, even in small things, do to people. When I say small thing, I also allude to a problem about a male nurse. Maybe the male nurse does not care so much, but the people who don´t accept it are throwing lots of negative energy to their surroundings. They will teach their children and thus continue a chain of bigotry.

Stereotypes of any kind lead to abuse and disrespect because we, as people, are unique. All topics of interest can be appealling to both sexes: we are interested in something as persons, not about women or men.

If we are not afraid, then we must speak for the ones who don´t dare. I have been respected all my life, so I don´t need to call myself a feminist (which I am not) but a person. I wish all people had those rights to be respected from the moment they are born.

Of course that there are some jobs that one spouse does better than the other. My husband was better at climbing ladders and I was better at cooking (except for a couple of fish dishes he did VERY well). My husband never washed the dishes because I did not like how he did them. But my brother does it better than I.

I know my brother does a lot more cooking than his wife does...and he is pretty good at it too. I don't do much cooking or anything else for that matter. I like to think that I do better at "thinking" things (accounting) than at "doing" things (sewing). I am not bothered by male nurses, especially if they are cute . Have a great week!!!

Jeezz, Debbie!!! So now you are on the lookout for handsome male nurses. I met one, a long time ago. He was the cute type.

I wholly agree with you, Debbie. Some people are more capable of certain jobs than others and that has nothing to do with gender. The best paellas I have eaten have been made by a friend of mine who is an astronomer (physics, PhDs and the like). But he is also a wonderful cook. I am sure that men feel more comfortable with male nurses depending on the kind of illness they have.

I hated that at school too. At my time, people chose some subjects in secondary school. Whoever took language and philosophy instead of math meant that they were waiting to be married. OMG!!! At that time I wanted to study philosophy and do a postgraduate course in Paris (which I never did because I fell in love and got married) I wonder if that was a curse the teachers threw upon us. But I don´t regret it because my husband was as good a man as you can get.

Although my life has had less hard work than yours, I have not sensed in mine any difference between sexes. While married, we both did what we did better. Before that, when I was growing up, I was respected by my parents as a person. Unfortunatly, my case is not the mayority.

Your answer made my day! I used to do a lot of things and still do as many as I can in spite of a **** lymphoma that had me on chemo most of last year. But I still garden and read and love to cook. I used to do many of what is usually called "man´s work" and THAT is what I don´t like. I am not more feminine now, because I´m older and can only make the apricot jam from my tree but need someone to climb up the ladder to pick them. People are people, and they deserve respect as such. I save my online earnings for vacations as I also love to visit places and meet new people. I do hope that my oncologist will give me a break soon to go somewhere to have fun. Thanks for sharing your life.

In no way did I mean to indicate that my life was full of hard work - though all the hard work led me to be successful in many genres. Of that, I am proud. I can do most anything from cooking, sewing, gardening all the way through to carpentry. I am preparing to remodel my bedroom (I live and travel in my 31' 5th wheel RV); the bedroom is 'wall to wall' bed at this time with hardly enough floor space to get around it in order to make it up. With the help of my oldest son, I/we will remove the bed and rebuild it into a twin size fashioned after a Captain's bed with drawers and doors to access the storage area underneath. Not only will this give me more flor space, it will increase my accessible storage and cut out some of my clutter (items I want to keep which don't have a place to 'live' yet). In a few days, I will be clearing out and putting away things like yarn for my knitting/crocheting projects, my ongoing quilting project - a quilt being made of well worn jeans cross stitched by hand together in squares with embroidery floss with the seams to the right side so they will fray and give a texture and interest to the finished project. When I get the new bed done, I will probably finish that one in short order. I loved (almost) every minute of my trucking days - and by no means was it 'hard work' just long hours and for little compensation at times. The worst part of it was mostly the archaic attitude of the male truckers I was on the road with - most of those with bad attitudes toward female truckers were much younger and felt they were being threatened by a woman. ;-) Obviously, not much self confidence there! If not for the heart attack taking me off the road, I would still be out there! My "version" of trucking now is traveling in my 5th wheel rig and visiting places I only could pass through/by as a trucker - and I have a LONG list of them! Thanks for your comments.