>>I have known a few women who were born big and strong enough to do men's heavy labor - one of them was a dock worker, a "stevedore" lifting hundred-pound sacks of stuff onto loaders. There were women who could chop down trees, turn them into firewod-size pieces, and then plow a field.<<
I've seen a couple of works that flip gender roles for whatever reason, and it is interesting seeing a setting where men are considered delicate and to be protected while the women are the expendable folks who do the heavy labor.
>>And then there are those of us who understand how stuff works, and make the most out of our limited physical strength by using leverage and gravity and whatever came to hand.<<
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Date: 2023-08-05 04:19 am (UTC)I've seen a couple of works that flip gender roles for whatever reason, and it is interesting seeing a setting where men are considered delicate and to be protected while the women are the expendable folks who do the heavy labor.
>>And then there are those of us who understand how stuff works, and make the most out of our limited physical strength by using leverage and gravity and whatever came to hand.<<
I do this...cleverness and stubbornness.