11 February 2018 - Rosie At Work On The B-Nineteen

Will Power Tools Make You More Creative

"Women are using them (power tools) increasingly to find an outlet for their creative energies and, in these times of high rising prices, to decorate their homes or create unusual display pieces. Women have been operating powered equipment for decades. So it's no big deal to switch on a table-top jigsaw or pick up a powered hand tool and shape silver, copper, wood, plastic, or ceramics."

Here we go again

If you read this and are inclined to use power tools, please forgive me when I just rant about how I have no desire to pick up a power tool of any kind.

It is true what is said about women and operating powered equipment.

When it comes to getting shit done we own it.

This picture above was taken around 1939 during World War II.

These women are welding and look fabulous doing so.

Fierce

I don't even know what they are doing but they are looking badass while doing it!

Anything you can do I can do better!

That is our motto.

Women took pride in working during the World Wars. Even in a time of civil unrest, we came together and worked together in a sense of patriotic duty.

These Native American women from Oregon are on their way to train to work in the shipyards during the war. They would become welders and electricians.

The idea that a woman can't work in a particular field, have hobbies that involve power tools, or saying that we should only be limited to certain activities is pure idiocracy.

Just because I make fun of this almanac and its continuing persistence on my picking up a power tool doesn't mean that I believe that no woman should ever do so.

If you do so, you have more skills than I!

I salute you!

I also salute these women of our past who came out to show the world that women are capable of more than stereotypes surrounding our gender.

Pick up that hammer ladies and smash those cultural molds.

The real Rosie the Riveter, Naomi Parker Fraley died recently at the age of 96. She lived in Longview, Washington just a few miles away from me.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Naomi and her sister went to work at the Navy Air Station in Alameda, California.

Thanks Naomi for inspiring generations!

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