I'm not really sure how survival in adverse conditions has somehow become a political thing here. Our ancestors -- male and female -- obviously managed to survive extreme life conditions or we wouldn't be here, right? I'd say that those two women on the sailboat managed to survive just fine. Has anyone seen the vids of them when they were rescued? They look fit and healthy.
We humans all come with the same apparatus.... brain, body, opposable thumbs, limbs, reproductive bits. As much as American men would like to not believe it, we women are perfectly capable of using tools and fashioning tools, to get the job done. We are also perfectly capable of being super grateful to our manly cave mates for doing that for us. You boys rock!
Here's an example, from our life in the Northwoods, from today:
We have a greenhouse that me and him put together. It's encased in a large garden area inside a 6 foot fence that we also put together. We staked that bitch down way into the ground. (We live in the UP of MI close by Lake Superior.)
We've had some major gales in the last week. Three days ago people died being swept away. Today the winds took the greenhouse through the fence. I ran out and caught it and dragged it out of the branches in the woods. Together we got it to safety and dismantled the cover.
It's so damn stupid to think that only guys can do ___ and only gals can do ___. We wouldn't be here as a species if we couldn't diversify, right?