Ok I am currently all hot and bothered. In a very good way hahahaha. So I was on facebook this morning and my friend's status update said "lol @ 86% of Australian women wanting a tradie as a man!". In my mind, I was like "HELL YEAH THEY DO!". Which is funny because I then scroll down and this massive long debate has formed between a bunch of people - some who are pro-tradies ("they're hot!", "they can fix things!" etc) and others who claim you need a university degree if you want to be the most successful in life (hence more attractive to the opposite sex). Interestingly, the pro-tradie comments came from mostly girls; evidently the statistics ring true. One girl commented that she would much prefer "brains over a tradie", which prompted a debate about whether having a degree was more important to women and their preferences in men.
In response to this I ask, why do we assume that all guys who are tradies are stupid? Because they dropped out of high school and went straight into an apprenticeship we assume they are less intelligent? I find this humorous because if I dropped out at year 10 and did not end up studying all that crap I studied in years 11 and 12, I'm pretty sure I would still be as smart as I am now (yeah, like, I read stuff outside of school too you know). I had absolutely no use for PES Maths or Indonesian and I bludged my way through PES English because I felt overly confident in my grasp of language and I wasn't too keen on boring-ass poetry. I would even go as far to say that everything I learnt in years 11 and 12 is completely forgotten now. I have no idea how to find the limit of an equation and I sure as hell can't remember how to speak more than a few words of Indonesian. So my point is, high school might teach you some ish but a lot of it has turned out to be utterly useless in the everyday world. I would never assume that a guy is stupid just because he missed out on a couple years of schooling. I would be more worried if he never went to primary school as that's where we learn how to read and write and how to not cut ourselves with scissors. For me, there's really nothing worse than going out with a guy who can't spell and has issues with holding semi-sharp cutting instruments. It irks me. But I digress...
We cannot assume all tradies are dumb okay! That is my main point. Yes, a university degree is essential if you want certain jobs. But why must we assume that guys who have chosen to do a trade must have done so because they couldn't handle school work? Maybe they are just born to be hands-on, just as others are academically inclined. Why must we always consider book smarts to be more valuable than street smarts? To me, they are equally as valuable in different ways, some would even say practicality is much more valuable because it applies to how we live our everyday lives. But now some of you are saying, "Eva, you go to uni? You obviously think having a degree is good?" - and to that I say, yes, a degree is good. For me. Because I am academically inclined. If I was good at practical stuff then of course I would go off and do a trade! But I suck at stuff like that, so I'm going to focus on what I'm good at. Sure, some people say that you earn more money when you have a degree but last time I checked, tradies were raking in just as much dough than all the geeks I know, and to top it off they already had houses and cars to show for it while the rest of us are still studying and surviving on minimum wage. Fml.
Ok, so the point is, we should stop giving tradies a bad rap. The only thing we can safely assume is that STUPIDITY IS EVERYWHERE. It's not limited to a specific industry, ok. Women want guys who are good at whatever they do, whether they are a carpenter or a physicist. It's the "being good at something" that is essentially attractive. The thing that is really putting tradies on the top of the most wanted list is physical attractiveness. Tradies generally have sculpted bodies because of their jobs and they have that rough and rugged thang goin' on. Which is hot. It's a biological urge on a woman's part - we're looking for perfect human specimens to have babies with apparently. So here's the tip boy-geekazoids: hit the gym! And it wouldn't hurt you to roll around in some mud once in a while. Everyone knows I love a guy with brains, but the only thing better than a guy with brains is a guy with brains who ALSO knows how to carry really heavy stuff and dig holes and all that.
That is all.
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