Sorry Bobert, but I can only speak as I find, and so far in my 40something years, many of which have been spent with men, I have yet to find any evidence that they are the superior beings they think they are.

There was one I lived with who, if I bought an electrical appliance (toaster, kettle, that sort of thing) would ask who fitted the plug. If I replied that I had done it, he would immedately take a pair of scissors and cut it off 2 inches from the plug and rewire it with no comment. If I told him the "man in the shop" had done it, he left it as it was without inspecting it.

In the end, I fitted the plugs and just told him that the "man in the shop" had done it. Nothing I wired ever blew up, neither did I ever burn my ass on a gas fire as he did - but that's another story!

LTS