{"id":279336,"date":"2018-10-29T04:13:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T04:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/10\/29\/men-like-to-believe-theyd-be-great-in-apocalypse\/"},"modified":"2018-10-29T04:13:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T04:13:05","slug":"men-like-to-believe-theyd-be-great-in-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/10\/29\/men-like-to-believe-theyd-be-great-in-apocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

lierdumoa<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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alls-well-that-ends-weird<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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madgastronomer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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bahoreal<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Men like to believe theyd be great in apocalypse scenarios but they dont even know how to sew<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Some male friends of mine were once talking about how useful they\u2019d be in an apocalypse, and I pointed out that as a weaver and sewer and maker of stuff, I\u2019d be pretty damn useful and they tried to tell me they could just loot clothes from WalMart and they\u2019d be fine. As if WalMart has endless supplies without weekly deliveries.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So just last night a friend of mine was talking about who he\u2019d round up in the event of a zombie apocalypse and how I\u2019m his go-to farmer on account of I know how to keep an entire homestead up and running and we\u2019re talking about what kind of resources I\u2019d need to keep a colony of about 50-ish people alive and i bring up what all goes into processing wool for clothing and such and he just kind of stops me like\u00a0\u2018wait, wait, we don\u2019t need to do all of that because we can scavenge for clothes we don\u2019t need to be able to make them\u2019 and i\u2019m just like,\u00a0\u2018dude, that works in the short-term maybe but if this community is going to be sustainable you\u2019ve gotta have people whose job it is to make clothes and blankets and shit\u2019<\/p>\n

also cloth rots pretty quickly when left exposed to the elements and after the first few years or so anything we manage to scavenge isn\u2019t going to be wearable anymore and anywho<\/i> we\u2019ve got to teach the kids everything or they\u2019re not gonna know what to do some decades down the line when everything\u2019s too rusted or rotted out to be of any practical use anymore, etc etc, and he\u2019s reckoning that things like woodworking and smithing and ranching are more important than say, cleaning or cooking or dairying and meanwhile i\u2019m just smh may all the gods have mercy on this poor fool<\/p>\n

He also balked when i brought up how to run a laundry and what all was needed to make everyday shit like soap and toothpaste – like dude, you think this is going to be all about hunting and scavenging and being neato manly-man drifters like in the walking dead let me teach you a thing about keeping a village alive and healthy for more than a week man most of it is shit you keep thinking is non-essential on account of it being\u00a0\u201cwomen\u2019s work\u201d or\u00a0\u201csimple chores\u201d that\u2019re actually pretty labor-intensive and take time, training, knowledge, and practice to do successfully, let alone well, and are 100% absolutely necessary work in order for you to have any reasonably good quality of life after the world ends<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019m reminded of this post I read a while back about some guy who thought his underwear lasted years because his wife would periodically replace his boxers and socks with identical boxers and socks when they started to look old and he just \u2026 never noticed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

lierdumoa: alls-well-that-ends-weird: madgastronomer: bahoreal: Men like to believe theyd be great in apocalypse scenarios but they dont even know how to sew Some male friends of mine were once talking about how useful they\u2019d be in an apocalypse, and I pointed out that as a weaver and sewer and maker of stuff, I\u2019d be pretty … <\/p>\n

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