I've never understood this either, but somehow boys (and, later, men) manage to wriggle out of learning a lot of things like that. Either they're never expected to learn it or they're such pains about it that it's easier not to expect even baseline competency from them. I know in my own household that my brothers managed to be so "bad" at everything related to cooking or cleaning that it was easier for my mom to do everything for them than it was for her to hold their hands through the process a million times.
I think that's a pretty common American cultural thing - think of all the bumbling sitcom dads from the 90s, those awful "Porn for Women" books where it's just blandly handsome guys showing basic household competency, etc.
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From: (Anonymous)I think that's a pretty common American cultural thing - think of all the bumbling sitcom dads from the 90s, those awful "Porn for Women" books where it's just blandly handsome guys showing basic household competency, etc.