a-true-detective:

radfemale:

i’m really sick of the ‘male/female’ natural interest dichotomy. growing up, males are asked to go help fix cars and mow lawns etc. and females aren’t. then, as you get older, men laugh like ‘lol u don’t even know what a radiator is’ and it’s like no we weren’t socialised to ‘like’ that stuff. it’s not because we’re naturally bad at mechanics or physical labour – it’s because we were never taught. they don’t teach us as children but patronize us when, as adults, we don’t know much about it. 

Also they can rip us off and overcharge these services to us as adults when we need our car fixed, or need to buy a second hand car, or get a toilet fixed, etc. If women learned how to do these things as children they wouldn’t have need for men to provide these (vastly overpriced) ‘essential services’ to them.
Even where we don’t mind men performing these services for us we would be in a better place to judge cost of labour and materials so they can’t overinflate their prices.