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I agree about cooking, but not about sewing.

+1

I'm a grown woman and my sewing skills pretty much extend to pillows and pillowcases. With a sewing machine. I'm just not very dexterous (never really got the hang of crafts, even 'simple' origiami). And I'm not going to die because I can't replace a button.

I will add however, that I feel this way about people who can't their own laundry. No matter what gender.

Laundry is a lot simpler.

I learned buttons but I am godawful at it. And have enough money that I'll probably say "fuck it, lets just get a new one"

Nobody's asking you to create an outfit from scratch. But a button? If you don't know how to re-attach a button, it's a wonder you know how to fasten a button in the first place. It is literally that simple.

da

it takes finer motor skills/dexterity though

yet another da

And 20/20 vision and/or very good light

(found that out when I went to re-attach a button recently UGH)

Who cares? Fuck, I have several entire outfits that don't even have buttons. Also, everybody has a different viewpoint of what 'simple' is. If everybody could do everything we wouldn't need other people and that's what makes society so beautiful. You can sew my buttons if you really want to. I will, I dunno, alphabetize your stuff.

Alphabetizing is also a basic skill that people should know how to do, but sewing? You thread a needle and poke holes in things. It doesn't require 20/20 vision (I would know, since I definitely don't have that), all it really requires is a hand. Not even two hands--one will work.

But, you know, it's fine if you don't want to learn how to sew. I get that it's not as important as it would have been before mass-produced clothes. It still seems weird when people can't do it though.

da-uh, you can thread a needle with one hand? Damn.

Yep. Stab a needle into a pincushion, thread the needle. It isn't hard.

I mean, it's probably not universal, but I have only one full functioning hand in terms of fine motor skills and I sew all the time. It helps my good hand remain more fit and yeah, you can thread a needle with one hand - if you can't manage the line-up for the pincusion trick, most sewing kits come with a needle threading tool that works one-handed.

DA

Because it's not so simple for everyone. For some people it's a struggle. I get the theory behind it, but in practice it's a disaster. It's more weird to me that you don't seem to get that different people have different skills sets.

DA

I keep forgetting how to do it, so I'm forever googling how to sew a button back on...something about which order to move the needle and thread and how much thread and urgh i just end up making a tangled mess

But I can totally fix a toilet or broken tap! these are extremely simple but for me. some people are just better at some skills than others

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