If we’re to take on what have been pegged as traditionally 'male roles', then we need men to take on the traditionally 'female roles' too
If we’re to take on what have been pegged as traditionally 'male roles', then we need men to take on the traditionally 'female roles' tooPerhaps we’ve had it all wrong about DIY being a man’s game
So, I have a confession. When it comes to decorating, there are three people now in my marriage. Myself. My husband. And Luke’s alter-ego, a character we affectionately refer to as “Slop Boy”. For a while I thought it stunk of weaponised incompetence, that Luke was somehow pretending to be inept in order to dodge a Saturday afternoon of DIY. But I’ve learned that, no – he’s just really, really bad at it.
And perhaps that’s the difference between millennial men and millennial women; us girls perhaps feel we’ve got a point to prove, that we can do anything men can, from faucets to flooring. Men don’t have that same pressure, so in the DIY space, perhaps that’s why so many of them have never bothered learning?
On reading this, Luke will claim that I enjoy DIY which is why I always take on the majority of the responsibility. And to be fair, he isn’t wrong. I, like many other women, want our homes to be a place of safety and comfort. The rise of social media not only gives us, but we now also get to see more women posting videos of them taking on big, hefty DIY jobs – and succeeding.
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