#wilderness survival skills

[cherryblossomshadow]

AITA | For teaching my son a lesson for saying "Household chores are women's work"?

Expatriarch

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AITAH for teaching my son after lesson and throwing him out after he said household chores are a woman's job? I (34M) got a 16 year old son with my ex (34F) … We split up after I caught her "cheating" … and divorced 2 years ago. Now everything is very good between us and I even consider her a friend … And, credit where credit is due, she was a remarkable homemaker and an amazing mother. When we divorced, I had to learn all of this on my own. It was the first time I realised how much work goes into maintaining a house, I'm embarrassed to admit it, but I had to look up YouTube tutorials on how to clean and cook. A few weeks ago, I was ironing me and my sons clothes and told him that I want to teach him how to do this, as I don't want him falling into the same mistake I did and never learning this on my own. He said he doesn't want to and I just said he'll have to learn to do this at some point. He then said "only failed men do stuff like this and I won't be one of them." I stopped and looked up a bit bewildered and asked him to clarify. He said that it is his belief that this is a woman's job to do and that only simps do simple household chores. I tried to keep my composure as much as I could but asked if he saw me as a simp and he just shrugged. I told him that now he will have to choose his next words very carefully but I said that he will learn household work weather he likes it or not. He again reiterate what he said and I said well, if you think this is a woman's job, it's time for you to live with a woman and to pack his bag and to go to his mom's house, as I will not have any of that Andrew Tate bullshit in my house. … Surprisingly she's on my side and has just asked me to drop him off at hers and she'll help teaching him a lesson. It's been about 2 weeks now that he lives with his mom, and she has been reinforcing the household chores on him. He's called me multiple times to apologise and asking me to come back, his mom and I agreed he's going to stick this up for a week or 2 after the holidays, and make him commute to school and do lesser household chores; and them let him come back to me to reinforce the consequence of his "belief"

Expatriarch: Now, very clearly, he's not. Though, he recognizes he should have taught his son much earlier. And that sending him to his ex-wife’s is yet another example of women having to bear the brunt of shouldering the emotional and physical labor of teaching men how to be self-sufficient individuals

But it amazes me the entitled worldview that young men are being raised to. That the moment they step out from under their parents into the world, there's some woman waiting instantly to drop in his life, cook, clean, and do all his chores for him. That none of this is his concern, and it can all be filed away as women's work. That women exist solely to just sit patiently in the wings until called for by a man – any man – overjoyed that she can finally fulfill her purpose in life, devoting hers to cleaning up after him

It reminds me of the video I did of the proud masculine men of the Daily Wire, bragging that they haven't done chores in years, and that they wouldn't be able to figure out how to do laundry, even if their lives actually depended on it. Being incompetent is not a flex. Being helpless is not a flex. It's yet another way that these arbitrary and stupid gender roles are so incredibly dangerous. It dehumanizes and devalues women, reducing them to just domestic servants. And it cripples men, making them lack basic life skills that leave them disadvantaged and miserable, reducing adult men to inapt toddlers. But it also reiterates a sense of shame, disgust, and worthlessness to being single. “Only failed men do stuff like this.”

The reality is men who are capable of doing their own domestic labor are far more attractive. When I asked women, “Why are you single?” and got over a 100 stitches in response, the universal answer was that they were tired of doing all the domestic labor. Of having a man who felt it was “women's work” and not doing their share.

For the majority of us, when we leave the family home, our first experience will be living with roommates. Complete strangers who will expect you to clean up after yourself and take care of yourself. There may be a rotation for household chores, and you will be expected to pitch in. And if you don't, if you breeze through life thinking that household chores are everyone else's problem, then those roommates will hate you and likely no longer want to live with you. And if you treat your spouse or romantic partner this way, then don't be surprised when they too will hate you and no longer want to live with you.

With my own teenage son, he does all his own laundry, he cooks all his own meals, and he's learning more recipes from me, so that he's more self-sufficient. It's important, not just for building his self-confidence, his sense of responsibility, and control over his own life, but also so that he's not a burden on others.

And the thing is, men totally understand this. When we talk about these skills outside of the home, as wilderness survival skills, it's seen as something incredibly desirable, something to be proud of. To be self-sufficient, to rely only on yourself, to not be a burden on others. But inside the home, well then, men revert to the status of children, taking no responsibility for their own welfare and expecting someone else to follow them around and clean up after them. That's if they even acknowledge that work at all and don't just believe the magic laundry fairy does it all. Domestic labor is work, necessary work that never ends. It's not something you just help with now and again. It is something you need to actively participate in, to plan for and work at throughout your entire life, whether you live alone, with roommates, or with a romantic partner. If you want to be seen as mature, dependable, successful, and able to make an impact on this world, then you need to start by making an impact on your immediate environment by taking ownership and pride in it and being responsible for the household chores. Expecting someone else to do all that work for you is a sign that you lack maturity, lack respect for others, struggle with responsibility and accountability and are generally a miserably selfish person to be around. And you get to choose which of those types of men you want to be

[redgearguru]

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[beardedbastardoutdoors]

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[corellianhounds]

Some headcanons for Mando:

Anything he uses to shower or wash his clothes with is unscented. Those scent-neutralizer dryer sheets keep his clothes from smelling like anything that can be detected while he’s on a hunt. Very few species are exempt from being unable to detect him

He keeps a clean ship and a strict schedule. He’s been self-sufficient and on his own for long enough he knows how to cook and take care of himself. Keeping your tools, gear, weapons, armor, and ship in clean, efficient working order means you’re less likely to have to spend time fixing one of them when it breaks from your lack of routine maintenance, and his body is just another tool in his arsenal; sleep, food, necessary medical care, staying limber and getting vitamin D at some point all go a long way towards ensuring he can last longer in the field. You can’t run something ragged every day and expect for that to be sustainable.

That also means he’s well-equipped to handle long stints without different necessities when needed from time to time; you can push yourself pretty far when you’re already in prime condition.

Wilderness survival skills were some of the first things he learned while being brought up by the Mandalorians. Being aware of your surroundings, setting up and breaking down camp, foraging and hunting for food, building impromptu shelters, purifying water, navigating and tracking, having a variety of general and specific medical knowledge— All of those skills are building blocks for self-sufficiency. You never know when you’re going to be alone or thrust into survival scenarios, so it pays to be prepared.

That also means he’s capable of stomaching a wide variety of what some might consider inedible. Beggars can’t be choosers, and it’s rude to decline someone’s offer of food or hospitality so in any scenario where food is in short supply and/or it’s been offered to him, he’s taking it. As long as it’s something he knows humans can digest, he’s open to whatever cultural or regional dishes his travels have to offer, and he’ll muscle through the less pleasant tastes or textures of food he’s had to make do with when he didn’t have other options.

He does know how to make food taste good, but that more often than not requires more spices and ingredients and hardware than he can afford or spare the room for, so he makes do without. Once the kid comes along he branches out a bit more to make sure he gets some variety.

Along the lines of self-sufficiency and independence, he has a lot of general repair skills: you may not always have somebody who can fix things for you, and he obviously isn’t going to pay somebody else to do something he’s capable of learning, except for when he’s short on time or resources. We see him working on the interior circuitry of his armor in the second episode. He knows how to bypass and pick locks. He has the electrical, mechanical, and structural know-how to fix his ship and would know how to weld and use a torch cutter and a variety of other tools, but it also means he’d know how to sew and mend his clothes. Soft goods are just as necessary as hardware.

Injuries where he genuinely needs professional medical care are few and far in between partially because he’s very good at what he does, and partially out of necessity. Though it is by choice, him tending to his own wounds may not necessarily be because he is neglectful or prideful or has a penchant for pain; medcenters cost money, and submitting to that care means he is vulnerable and at risk of somebody breaking his creed by force, or doing more damage when he can’t fight back. It’s why he likely refuses anesthesia or anything that will put him under and make him unaware of what’s happening while he’s asleep. Either he will find somebody he’s close to to help him, or he will find a way to muscle through self-administered medical care yet again, or he will die from his injuries (which means he will have gone down because of a fight)

Though he has a few physical reference materials and logs he’s written down important details in, a vast majority of his knowledge concerning trade routes, ballistics, geography, maps, various customs and cultures and languages, Guild bylaws— anything he could possibly need to know for a hunt— is committed to memory. He travels light, and the Mandalorians have an oral history more than a written one; belongings and archives can be destroyed, but their people live on and carry the knowledge that’s been passed down through centuries. It just makes more sense to him to commit everything to memory.

That being said, he does a significant amount of research before each hunt anyway, though the bulk of it is centered around the target themselves. Having all of your prep work done means the acquisition itself will go smoother.

He’s mathematically sharp: engine repair, manual piloting, vector calculus, electrical work, ballistics, basic engineering, weapons maintenance, financial management, and navigation by maps or by stars take a lot of mental acuity to understand and apply as quickly as he usually has to use them.

He’s not going to back down from others who purposefully encroach on his personal space, but he dislikes being in close proximity to strangers for extended periods of time. So much of his life is spent evading threats and fighting off challengers it’s hard to trust anybody to be that close. It’s not an aversion so much as it is an irritation that makes him tense. When you’re always looking over your shoulder, it’s just reflex to act defensively.

He doesn’t drink alcohol or caf unless he has sufficient time and he’s secure in the Crest without worry of attack; both impede his marksmanship and reflexes, neither of which are things he can afford while he’s working, so it’s usually only when he’s traveling through space that he’ll indulge

He doesn’t sing, but once the kid comes along he’s found that it’s easier to get him to sleep when he hums as he holds him and walks around the cargo hold.

[morballs]

still thinking about the scrapped trust mechanic and how swiping and breaking Grey Mother and Jeremiah's items from their homes would lower their trust, no idea why they scrapped it since it sounded like a pretty solid feature

i would kind of get why it would be cut or at least watered down with episode 4, since giving the player that much choice of befriending the convicts would kind of fuck up the linear story but nonetheless I would've enjoyed the choice of getting like quests to do from Vachon in exchange of being able to smuggle in items later

[fallensapphires]

Genres: Wilderness Survival Story

The man who goes afoot, prepared to camp anywhere and in any weather, is the most independent fellow on earth.

requested by: @kaiyves-backup

[bastard-woodsman]

KNOT SKILLS: The “Bowline”

— THE SURVIVOR Vol. 1; pg 455 <Copyright 1976 by Kurt Saxon>

[balkanradfem]

(for context, you'd be able to take a little bag you prepared. in case this is the main problem.)

[a-life-lived-outdoors]

Another small fire with steel wool and flint & steel. Extremely viable option, was much quicker to flame than charcloth.

[parastish]

Sound on!

[rose-without-thorn]

Loving the wilderness construction projects we've got going on

Are those... bark floorboards?

[crazydiscostu]

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[ahollowgrave]

🌲 — surviving in the wilderness

She's got decent wilderness survival skills! She knows what makes a good and safe camping spot, she follows 'leave no trace' as closely as a human can, she knows how to fish and forage (not that she needs to eat, but in the event she's traveling with someone), she can pitch a tent and build a fire, she knows the theory behind crafting a lean-to. She also has pretty rock solid first aid skills, just in case. Because so much of her job is traveling it was important to her Sisters (and herself) that she be prepared to survive it. None, a lalafell ranger, is the one who taught Odette most of what she knows and also is her most common traveling partner. Although she prefers her solitude, Odette understands the importance of a second set of eyes. If None is unavailable she will sometimes seek out others traveling the same way, or hire guides in places she is wholly unfamiliar with. Still, she often travels alone. Well... Rou is there, always.

Thank you for the ask!

[ Skillset Symbol Meme ]

[beardedbastardoutdoors]

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[itstimeforstarwars]

Dollar store lighter my beloved I cherish your existence and I'm so glad I do not have to start a fire like a fucking caveman.

[the-survivalist]

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