That’s exactly it. We’re all a mix of traits that were labeled as either masculine or feminine centuries ago. They shouldn’t have been because they are all human traits and characteristics. You have to have both to be a well balanced human being. Your biological sex should have no bearing on whether or not you get to pursue whatever trait you’re inclined to or want to develop.
Being male shouldn’t exclude you from exhibiting care taking and compassion. Being female shouldn’t force it upon you against your natural inclinations, or do that labor on behalf of the opposite sex because gender policing has excluded them.
Being female shouldn’t exclude you from exhibiting strength, assertiveness, or leadership. Being male shouldn’t force it upon you against your natural inclinations or doing that labor on behalf of the opposite sex because gender policing has excluded them.
We should all be free to explore and develop those traits within ourselves across the entirety of the human behavioral spectrum based on our own individual strengths and weaknesses that was,in reality, only ever loosely correlated with our genders.
Gender shouldn’t be limiting or be a prison. We shouldn’t make it one for our fellow human beings.
That’s all that’s being said. Nobody is out to get men or say men can’t be men or turn men into women. That’s all fear mongering nonsense.
If you like working with tools and fixing or building things. That’s great. I hope doing so gives you a sense of pride, accomplishment, and maybe even purpose. I hope you have a great sense of self esteem from it and lots of cool and challenging projects. I hope pursuing that part of your nature brings you joy.
I also hope you don’t use that trait to bash women who enjoy the same pursuit like so many men who harass women carpenters on TikTok. Or those snivelling little desperados who insist that women need men because they wouldn’t have this, that, or the other if men didn’t build it after their gender has horded both the knowledge and the tools to do so for centuries.
I hope you don’t use that inclination to wiggle out of your fair share of parental responsibilities. You’re cheating yourself, your spouse, and your child if you do. Same for your domestic and relationship responsibilities both professionally and privately.
I hope you have a full human experience and I hope you don’t act to deny someone else of the same opportunity because you want to gender police or play lord of the manor, or exploit free labor from people who love you, or whatever.
Is that really so scary and horrible?