'Wild at Heart' simply came out of my journey as a man and then my work with men.
[The congressman visited Boston.] We often wonder how things are made so cheap among the Yankees. Come here and you will see women doing men's work, and happy and cheerful as the day is long, and why not?
He owned a service station, and I used to go there and piddle around - pump some gas, get in the way.
My dad started off in scrap metal, real men doing men's jobs.
Boys Shack, MEN build homes
Sexism kind of predisposes us to see men's work as more important than women's, and it is a problem, I guess, as writers, we have to change.
Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?
What is interesting to me is looking at how male and female writers depict men who, come in behind to fill those domestic duties, deal with personal and cultural lack of respect for doing what is lingeringly perceived as 'women's work.'
