[politelemon]

> horse-riding, sword fighting or my inability to navigate by the stars.

Some better more suitable examples would be warranted here, none of these were as widespread or common as you'd assume. Little to no metaphorical scoffing would happen for those. Now, sewing and darning, and subsistence, while mundane, are uncommon for many of us.

[sshine]

For some strange reason, I’m better at sewing than both my wife and mother-in-law. I learned it in public school when both genders learned both woodworking and sewing, and maintained an interest so that I could wear “grunge” in the 1990s. The teachers I had remembered that those classes were gendered while they worked.