My father in law used to give me a hard time about cooking. I asked him to name one pro female chef (this was almost 25 years ago, there weren’t all that many well known at the time). He couldn’t. He never bothered me about it again.

I’m a 50 year old dude. Cooking used to be a big one when I was younger, now it’s more accepted. I also do all the clothes and food shopping for our family of five. Even the teen girls of the family ask me for help with hair, makeup and clothes. All that punking around paid off.

It was pretty common where I live for men to knit and crochet. We are traditionally fishermen in a cold climate. If you can knit a net you can knit mittens too.