Ladies, please STOP volunteering on home rehab for Katrina victims?

Question

I am their to bebuild the homes to help people. Not show you how to use a hammer and nail, use a power-tool, and lift the heavy stuff for you when I am in the middle of something!

This Cowboy helped rebuild 11 homes all for free for the poor, but I can no longer do it. The woman that come on the job just seem to ruin the momentum of everything. And, the jobs get extremely catty. Good Luck New Orleans. Comments?

Answer 1

Do you get that p*ssed at the Nancy-boys that show up and don't know what they are doing, or is it just the inclusion of a vagina that makes someone that doesn't know what they are doing so upsetting to you? Get over it, dude. Instead of b*tching and whining about it on Yahoo! Answers, why don't you try and come up with a solution, like, IDK, maybe set up some workshops to help the people that volunteer that aren't skilled so that they can actually be useful, and not b*tch-fest fodder.

Answer 2

As a female, I should feel ticked at you, but I don't really. Though I think you need to see that the women just want to help, I can understand that you went there to get a job done, and the women having no knowledge slowed you up quite a bunch. In my house, I am the go to "guy" rather than my husband to fix things, but that is only because that is what my dad did all my life. I think people just need to realize that even though society has given women an equal opportunity, they should still stick to the skills they have. I am sure there are plenty other jobs that could have been done. I don't think a situation that dire needs people that don't know what they are doing. It needs to be done NOW. I appreciate your honesty, and hopefully you won't get barraged to bad.

Answer 3

why would you discourage people from trying to help? who are you to say that they weren't there "to Rebuild the homes to help people"?!?
so a couple people, who happened to be women, didn't know how to build a house, and you're too high and mighty to teach anyone how to better help the victims of the hurricane? maybe if you had taken the time those women would be there right now building just fine, while you gave up & left! you can't do it all, you could have taught others a few things so that they could be more help and carry on with rebuilding. but NOOOOO, you're too good for that. you could have helped the katrina victims more my helping people help them better, AND you may have ended up helping those people too.

Answer 4

Considering the tone of your other questions, I think you just have a problem with women. Who are you to judge other people who want to help? They're VOLUNTEERS, not professionals, YOU don't get to pick and choose who wants to help. And what you're saying is crap, anyway. I've volunteered for Habitat for Humanity Women's Builds, as well as builds with both genders, and, believe me, the women got it done in the same amount of time, and just as effectively, without all the "cattiness" you claim to observe. And if men or women who volunteer don't know what they are doing, it is far more efficient to get the novices all together and show them, rather than exclude a lot of people who are eager to help.

Answer 5

Be proud of the fine work you did. The problems like that are everywhere though I will catch Hell for agreeing with you!! People want to help others so they can feel good about themselves and then they get in over their heads, chase the working people away, and it's the helpless victims that pay for such selfishness!! You did your part and you must have been under too much stress, so you be proud of really being of help and doing some good. Now, I'm ready to Box with you Ladies!! Read his words again before you blow!! @8-)

Answer 6

hello my family is from the Gentilly and Elysian Fields district
i was working uptown on a house on claiborne over winter break.
you may have been down at musicians village they have made some progress down there, man!
i understand your frustration i am a roofer and have little patience for slow workers. but it is the thought that counts.
i recommend getting off the Habitat (or whatever) circuit and just walk down the street until you find a trailer, knock on the door and ask if they wwant your help.
it worked for me and travis.
twice.
good luck helping others takes strength that few people posess.
and thank you.

Answer 7

I think you should rephrase and say PEOPLE with no experience in the field please stop volunteering to help rehab homes, there are plenty of female carpenters and engineers that know what they are doing and I am sure New Orleans needs all the help they can get. I think its unfair to assume that only men are in the field and know how to do it. My friend's cousin is a construction worker and I she added a room to our place and it was fast beautiful and very, very well made and she did it with 2 of her female employees..

I am not disagreeing with what you are saying just how you are saying it. You are right, they probably are getting in the way if they have no experience with carpentry. So get out of the way and let the people that know do thier jobs. There are plenty of other areas to help out down there and maybe thier skills are much more useful elsewhere.

Answer 8

Are you telling me that you are giving up on your DREAM, on what you ENJOY DOING, just because of some nagging women asking you HOW TO questions?

If I were your bro, I'd smack you silly, until you come to your senses completely, cowboy!

You probably don't understand the psychology of women.

How do you know that they are not trying to spark a conversation with you?

Women enjoy talking. It's their nature to go non-stop with such tasks. Asking HOW TO questions can spark such conversations or maybe even INTEREST.

Instead of doing house work as most men still perceive such tasks as women tasks to this day, these women are actually volunteering their personal time to help with a community project. Respect their desires and optimism to rebuild New Orleans, bro!

The least you can do is be a gentleman and not some whiny, cowboy.

But no matter what you do, still hold your grounds as a true and intelligent gentleman.

Don't let these women outsmart you by their temptations with the "cookies from the cookie jar" tactics. You hold your grounds and keep away from the cookie jar and you'll be safe. Step out of your grounds, stick your hands in the cookie jar and you'll be in for some trouble.

Don't get victimize by these women.

We men need newer strategies to counter against these sneaky women. Most sexual harassment cases are actually started by the woman, dressing provocatively to lure the man into the ultimate--TRAP.

Men are hungry.

Men need not be hungry.

Find a significant other and you'll have more than enough to play with. Fall not a prey to the predatory methods of these so-called "sneaky" women in your community.

If they pass your boundary of what you consider is sexual harassment, speak up to prevent any damages to your dignity.

Stupid men fall for these traps, so knowledge is indeed power.

You have the knowledge, now perform your tasks with pride, bro!

Here's how I see it. I'm like a tiger and them cats ain't gonna get their paws on me! Cats are no match for tigers, though felines they both be, which is similar to the slogan that men and women are both equal. Indeed, we are. But the tiger has his grounds and should keep it that way.

I can't really blame you for not enjoy working with women.

We all know what happened in that good ol' garden of Eden. All women that are not related to you by any means, such as that of a mother, sister, aunt, grandmother, cousin or significant other (i.e. spouse or girlfriend) can be a dangerous entity. Take care always, bro. Be careful and good luck to you!

Answer 9

They want to help but if they have no experience acutally building isnt there something you could teach them that would be fairly easy like painting or installing faceplates on outlets or something I DO understand your frustration but i think that there are plenty of jobs women can do on jobsites that they just arent aware are there

Answer 10

Eh... would not want to help them anyways... If you said hurricane in Texas, even the folks who could not speak English would know not to stick around.

The only ones that I truly feel sorry for are the elderly who could not get out. The rest of them made their bed and now have to lie in it. For all the ones that "evacuated" to Houston and San Antonio, Crime rate has sky rocketed. Time to go home you thugs.