helping you help him help you: Carpentry Basics

18 Oct 2010, Posted by Cape Town Girl in CTG recommends, DIY, dating, field guides, guys stuff, sex, 3 Comments

There’s a lot of blurry edges these days when it comes to gender roles. Nobody knows what’s going on and nobody really wants to ask questions. Questions like, ‘Should he pay for dinner, or should you pay for dinner, or should you split it?’ and ‘Do you pay for groceries and he buys the washing machine’ and ‘Is the relationship doomed if he has a BlackBerry and you have an iPhone’ and ‘Will your relationship fail if your respective skincare regimes are counter-complimentary?’ and ‘Is he really flirting with that skank if he doesn’t hide his comment on her photo in his news feed?’ and ‘Is it really necessary to wait til the 10th date to sleep with him when you want it just as bad and to be honest you don’t know if it’s going anywhere because it’s only been 2 months and that’s barely long enough to establish our surnames so let’s just sleep together now so we at least get some sex out of this before we know for sure it won’t work?’

Thankfully, I am not here to address any of these questions, but I am here to point out that there is something thuper theksy about men who fix stuff, and to help you help him to help you by showing you this nifty site which covers The Basics of Carpentry and Construction, so that if any male (friend, family, lover, gay man) happens upon your home and trips on your sideboard that has come loose, you can say ‘Can’t you do something about that quick?’ and he says ‘I’m really not great with my hands (because I am more of an intellectual / I am lazy / I am gay)’, you can whip out your iPhone and open up this bookmark and say ‘You don’t have to be good with your hands, we have the internet, and each other!’

Failing that, you can just bookmark this guide with intent to use it yourself later to ‘put in some shelves’ or to ‘build a birdhouse’, and then just never get round to it.

Whatever suits you.