{"id":1571,"date":"2011-01-29T13:47:03","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T20:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=1571"},"modified":"2015-11-14T16:10:21","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T23:10:21","slug":"generation-y-women-losing-female-skills-thats-only-the-half-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2011\/01\/29\/generation-y-women-losing-female-skills-thats-only-the-half-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Generation Y women losing &#8216;female&#8217; skills? That&#8217;s only the half of it&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.couriermail.com.au\/lifestyle\/generation-y-women-losing-female-skills-such-as-cooking-ironing-and-sewing\/story-e6frer4f-1225996664291\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.couriermail.com.au\/lifestyle\/generation-y-women-losing-female-skills-such-as-cooking-ironing-and-sewing\/story-e6frer4f-1225996664291\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/903826-kitchen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.couriermail.com.au\/lifestyle\/generation-y-women-losing-female-skills-such-as-cooking-ironing-and-sewing\/story-e6frer4f-1225996664291\" target=\"_blank\">Generation Y women losing &#8216;female&#8217; skills such as cooking, ironing and sewing | Courier Mail.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think the story should really be &#8220;People losing life skills&#8221;.<br \/>\nMost men don&#8217;t have many &#8216;male&#8217; skills left either &#8211; repairing things, building things, yard work,&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>This shouldn&#8217;t be about gender &#8211; it should be about the fact that most urbanites would not be able to survive if they couldn&#8217;t buy a new one or pay someone to fix it.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever happened to taking a bit of pride in being self-sufficient? I don&#8217;t mean wacko survivalist stuff, but come ON.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion,  butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance  accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give  orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem,  pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently,  die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.<\/p>\n<p>-Robert A. Heinlein<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sadly, people are becoming insects.<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-1571'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(1571);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(1571);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(1571);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Generation Y women losing &#8216;female&#8217; skills such as cooking, ironing and sewing | Courier Mail. I think the story should really be &#8220;People losing life skills&#8221;. Most men don&#8217;t have many &#8216;male&#8217; skills left either &#8211; repairing things, building things, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2011\/01\/29\/generation-y-women-losing-female-skills-thats-only-the-half-of-it\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,363],"tags":[37,115,103,77],"class_list":["post-1571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-women","tag-living-with-nature","tag-rant","tag-society","tag-urban-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-pl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7363,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2020\/01\/07\/well-worth-watching-losing-lena\/","url_meta":{"origin":1571,"position":0},"title":"Well Worth Watching: Losing Lena","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"January 7, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"It's time for gender equality in tech, let's start by losing Lena. 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Wonder if formal Education (and the associated formal Educators) will be able to see the irony that's being highlighted here? I also like Steven Downes' list: My list is very different: - emergent thinking: extracting patterns, rules, regularities,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Educational Technology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Educational Technology","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/educational-technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3043,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/10\/24\/male-scientists-still-seem-to-think-that-women-innately-suck-at-math\/","url_meta":{"origin":1571,"position":4},"title":"Male scientists still seem to think that women innately suck at math.","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"October 24, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"What Male And Female Scientists Say About Women In Science Interesting study, though to most women in the sciences, especially in math, physics, and tech, this is hardly news. 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