JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"basskisser" wrote in message
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Calif Bill wrote:
"Don White" wrote in message
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Gene Kearns wrote:
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This is a *BIG* hot button for me, but this is endemic of no longer
teaching real Industrial Arts in our public schools. Higher education,
from mechanic programs, to engineering programs, to medical programs
all suffer from incoming students that have, in too many cases, never
even held a tool in their hands..... and in almost all cases, save
some rural areas, lack any real experience in using tools or in
dealing with the logic required of fixing everyday items that need
repair or adjustment.....
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You got that right!
When my two sons were in jr high, they had to take homemaking courses
half
the year and shop the other half. The pc crowd decided that the girls
whould have equal time hammering, cutting etc. while the boys learned
baking, etc.
I don't mind if the girls want to take shop, but don't force the boys
to be Suzy Homemaker unless they want to.

So you figure the women will be the kitchen slave. Not much more
pathetic
than a guy who has to go to Burger King because he can not cook anything!

He didn't say anything like that. You just can't read can you? Did you
know that Homemaking courses teach a lot more than cooking? Do you
realize that Don never said anything like "women will be the kitchen
slave"? Do you realize that Don never said a man shouldn't know how to
cook?


Don *did* say something about "girlie men", though. Quite a few male chefs
would've had him hoisted onto the chopping block within seconds of hearing
that nonsense.

I know one that is a friend of mine who certainly would. He's another
black belt! Oh, and he makes a mean grilled tuna, too!