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Gender stereotyping is accurate enough, same for racial differences. It exists, and is seen universally. A minority of exceptions -- and no prohibitions, legally -- don't change gender-specific tasks or responsibilities better suited to one or the other.
Lets understand that a kitchen -- attached to the main house, air-conditioned and replete with highly expensive devices and room finish detail, etc -- is hardly central to the finances of a married couple. The house is enormously expensive, yet the second-highest expenditure after that house is transportation . . and the money spent on care/maintenance (past the land, additional structure and finish) is nothing by comparison to a kitchen. Cars are seen as disposable, and over a working lifetime, steal money as they are not husbanded with care by the owner. "Kitchen granite countertops" is the cry of the stupid, emotions over reason.
The rarity of women who work on cars is case in point, whether as hobby or as profession. The savings in money, over a decade, points to the garage as being more important than the kitchen.
A house is a workshop, on several levels. Itself a machine. And if land cultivated around it is part of family well-being, then even more so. The part support the whole.
The boy needs to grow a pair. What might make him attractive as a potential husband is not that he owns a car, but that he knows how to use one . . he might understand where it fits into a larger picture.
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