tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3316810.post6910468161095073466..comments2023-08-03T10:39:35.671-04:00Comments on Anti-Climacus: Fix ThyselfNicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05693481720368030657noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3316810.post-64634228248150039402013-07-09T18:20:12.965-04:002013-07-09T18:20:12.965-04:00I can certainly buy that the fixer culture feels r...I can certainly buy that the fixer culture feels really different to men, in the same way that (as Phoebe says) the home cooking culture feels really different to women. Arguably, learning to cook and feed themselves/their family is an especially enjoyable new area of competency for men (I know a bunch who are super-proud of their newfound abilities) in precisely the same way fixing things is Lindsay Lennoxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03444634935379976865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3316810.post-34551257843566692412013-07-08T21:32:20.571-04:002013-07-08T21:32:20.571-04:00The economic angle is only part of it. 'Fixing...The economic angle is only part of it. 'Fixing' for men is not just a question of technical competency; it's a question of fulfilling the basic conditions of being a man. It's not an idle question, either: the analogue of junior high girls shaming each other into conformity on weight and fashion is junior high boys dividing into shop and academic camps. In Real America in the Nicholashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05693481720368030657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3316810.post-85324142976294354062013-07-08T18:05:26.396-04:002013-07-08T18:05:26.396-04:00The gender angle here may not be so straightforwar...The gender angle here may not be so straightforward after all, as Lindsay's comment demonstrates. I mean, there's this movement asking us to return to home-cooking, by "us," well, men are asked to join in, but realistically far more women are doing this task, so if it becomes more from-scratch-ish, it's women's time and energy going into this. If anything, there's a Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3316810.post-74986718532983972272013-07-08T17:33:15.456-04:002013-07-08T17:33:15.456-04:001. I know several folks who are deeply into the fi...1. I know several folks who are deeply into the fixer culture (and am of them one myself, sporadically), and only one of those people cares about fixing things for economic reasons: he's a musician and sound technician, and fixing his own gear saves him money and (more importantly) time. Aside from this one example, the rest of the mindset seems to be about feeling competent, independent, andLindsay Lennoxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03444634935379976865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3316810.post-14684813471382462552013-07-05T16:48:06.748-04:002013-07-05T16:48:06.748-04:00I agree on the gender aspect, which seems obvious ...I agree on the gender aspect, which seems obvious but I hadn't thought of: there's a deep fuzziness about whether 'we' need to be supporting people for whom manual labor is an expression of deeply learned skill (<i>Shop Class as Soulcraft</i>, etc), or 'we' need to re-learn basic technical competence. But the 'we' is always 'men.' <br /><br />It's a bitNicholashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05693481720368030657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3316810.post-2865944092119397032013-07-05T14:39:13.181-04:002013-07-05T14:39:13.181-04:00Exactly! So many repairs are things it makes sense...Exactly! So many repairs are things it makes sense to outsource. I looked at the "fixer" post and manifesto, and am not seeing how others are missing that. And from an environmental perspective, what matters is that things not be needlessly thrown away. Which is more likely to happen if the owner and not an expert has tinkered with the item in question.<br /><br />The missing piece Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.com