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When did it become a point of pride for women to be incompetent at "girlie" stuff?

I keep hearing a bunch of my female friends boasting about how they "have more power tools than cookware", or they don't know the first thing about cooking, and don't want to learn, blah blah blah...

Now, I am certainly not one of those people who think that all women should know how to cook, or clean, or sew, or do any of their traditional gender roles activities. I do know how to do most of them, and enjoy most of them as well, but I don't expect anyone else to, if it's not their thing.

But I don't understand being proud of not knowing how to do something. I don't walk around bragging that I don't really understand car mechanics, or football, or any of a million other activities I don't normally take part in. I'm not proud of not knowing them, I'm just mostly unconcerned with them. Is it a persona thing? Is it just another way to appear tougher, or cooler, or something? Is the thought of being skilled at something "girlie" so offensive that women need to prove their disinterest?

I don't get it. Why be proud of ignorance?