Are some men healing childhood emotional disappointments by projecting excessive indulgence onto power tools?

Question

Sarah - aren't they great? It's like: "Meet Mr. Beltsander...look what he can do..." All that elbow grease - days and days of work - now completed in minutes! Bring 'Em on Baby; a gal can never have too many power tools!

Incidentally, I think everbody knows this ain't really a serious question to begin with, lol!

Answer 1

This question's title made me laugh right out loud. My husband has been power tool obsessive for as far back as I can remember. A trip to Lowe's to him is like Candyland is to a child.

EDIT to itisfuti (below). I know how to use power tools as well as my husband does. My dad taught me when I was a teenager and I've built furniture from scratch.

Answer 2

I project my maternal instinct into my two old mutt dogs. One really a small one, but the smaller of them all is a turtle that have been with me for ages. I don't heal my childhood with them, I grew up with pets since a child so it is natural for me to have pets now as a woman. I love animals, I always did. I actually enrolled to be a veterinarian course, although theatre was taking to much time (lol). Later I enrolled into a long distance course for a veterinarian assistant, again I didn't finish because of theatre (lol) Nevertheless, my relationship with animals are the bond I have to everything that is this earth, us humans are not the only ones, and it is amazing to have this wonderful conversations with other species, that juts as us have all the right to be here :-) Hope I am clear, I just finish (by accident) a whole bottle of wine ;-) Edit: I just saw you mentioned Paris Hilton, sorry I never read about her, I find her uninteresting

Answer 3

Maybe, but I suppose one channels emotional disappointments into whatever is a socially acceptable release. Women shop; men use power tools. That's what we saw our parents do and that's what others of our gender do to relieve stress or comfort ourselves.

I'm learning to use them at the age of 28 and find them fun. I love carpentry, it's very satisfying. My husband only uses power tools out of necessity and would rather not use them at all; he actually doesn't like to get dirty, and I don't mind.

So it's a generalization, but it may be true for many men.

Edit: Yeah, I'm not ashamed to say my guy isn't into the manly art of beltsanding, but I kind of am. He has soft hands too. =)

Answer 4

Hahaha! Good one, Object, you make me smile :-)

Same answer as to Shingdaio's question about pets, though ~ there's no doubt in my mind some are, but we all need somewhere to go with what ails us!

At least with power tools and pets, it's a productive healing :-)

Cheers :-)

Answer 5

This question just shows how much women (or should I say how little) know about creativity with your hands.

To men, building, creating is the ultimate. Repairing and making things work again is pretty cool too.

To do these things you need machines of some sort. The more those tools advance, the more exited you get.

Its a shame women are only good for organising, watching TV, manual labour (light) and gossoping.

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The Planet Aphasia thank god there are some women like you. I do know a few and they also like to talk guy stuff because women are bitchy and gossopy boring. Good that you and your hubby have that in common.

Answer 6

Are some women healing childhood emotional disappointments by projecting excessive indulgence into insulting men on yahoo answers?

Answer 7

Indubitably

Answer 8

Power tools rock, because they are so baddass! ·"excessive" is subjective. I cannot understand why a woman doesnt admire the power of a jackhammer...

Answer 9

The only example of this I've seen so far is Tim Taylor. It would be funny, though, if someone admitted that they named their power drill Charlene.

Answer 10

No my husband is excessive with all his purchases, not just the power tools.....