Or women.

My daughter learned to change lawn mower blades at 7. How to align her bicycle tires at 9. How to change a light bulb at … I can’t remmber a time when she didn’t know. How to square a frame and plumb a line at 10.

At 12 the toilet handle broke and she had it replaced by the time I got home from work. She jump started a car for the first time last year. At 16.

No daughter of mine is going to be beholden to a man to take care of basic household shit.

The same would have held if she had been a boy. He’d have been able to do his own laundry and cook for himself as well as change a tire. I would have expected dinner to be at least started and the table set if I had to work late and he would be cooking 2 days a week regardless.

And any so called father who got in the way of that would have had his bags packed for him. Because he’s not being a good one. I won’t allow any child of mine to be raised handicapped from being able to handle life’s basics regardless of their gender.