In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running
home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as
well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption
that _men_ know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is
_look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood
Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job
requiring them to transfer to another home.
Dave Barry