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Practical advice
Posted August 16, 2021 by Jernsaxa in Circles

So, in another post I talked with another user about a practical advice circle. What we talked about was that some skills are "basic" to make it in life. Sadly they tend to be assigned to a specific sex (think of women in the kitchen and men in the mechanic room🙄). And it reminded me a bit about a documentary about feminists in the 60's (I think) who came together and built their own thing, had their own place and free-time life. They all came with different skill-sets and managed to help each other and teach each other. It was beautiful and stirred a bit of my inner rebel-spirit. Anyway, getting off-track... Maybe we could have a circle to ask other women for help with things we just haven't learned ourselves? I realise I can spend an hour or two searching for a good tutorial on how to best sew in a button or change the wheels of my car, and then spend a couple of attempts failing, only to realise the video was click-bait or just no good... But personally I feel there's a certain strength and beauty in knowing that we, as women, can all help each other. Maybe someone already know of a great way to sew in that button, or someone has a good video on how to change those car wheels.

6 comments

MotherlySquirrelAugust 16, 2021

I think I saw your chat earlier today. I'm 100% in favour!

I'm quite adept in googling for resolutions but sometimes it can be such a headache to have to keep diving deeper to find the answer that builds on the previous answer, that builds on the 10 answers you had to look for before that. It would be great to have a place where we share knowledge to save us all the pain of having to go through that.

Jernsaxa [OP]August 16, 2021

Not to mention having to sort actual good advice from terrible click-bait hacks 😑

MotherlySquirrelAugust 16, 2021

Ugh yeah. And also, before you know it you've found yourself in the midst of a war between side A and side B, both of which claim that they've found the true answer while the other sides solution is just for those misguided and not immersed enough in the knowledge of whatever topic you were looking into. 😩

Looking at you hair care community.

Jernsaxa [OP]August 16, 2021

x) yeah, hair care and... Basically any care routines. I've completely given up on learning any good body care from the internet.

[Deleted]August 16, 2021

I love this :3

[Deleted]August 17, 2021