I know! Never ceases to amaze me.
These would seem to be good skills for anyone, not just men. Let’s not be sexist!
No dancing?
Isn’t that what “Use a torque wrench” means?
Capability #1 - know how to stay out of situations where you’ll need to know how to do that which you don’t know how to do. Know how to follow others who do know what to do.
Other useful capabilities not listed above: know when to be gentle, and when to be strong. Know when to listen, when to be silent, and when to speak out. Know when to be brave, no matter how terrified you are.
And many others.
Tokyo Player I believe the list means frame a wall with 2x4s, not hang frames. With that meaning, I fail to see the connection between #5 and #4.
I can do both of those things though. 
I can also drywall, shingle a roof, and paint a wall. Only one of those is on the list, darn it. I have no clue how to use a torque wrench. I do agree that “change a diaper” should most definately be added to the list.
If it is, I’d say you’re trying too hard! 
Of the listed skills, I’d say it’s somewhere between painting a room and performing CPR.
See? Set the poundie thing! Now you know!
Another girl checking in.
I can do 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 23.
I’ve done 3 and 12 a couple of times.
I can drive a stick (I learned to drive on a stick!)
I can check the oil and transmission fluid, change a diaper, entertain 21 kids for 3 hours at a time, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, and cook a tasty meal.
I can’t set a bone, but I can stabilize it till I get you to the hospital. I can also hold traction on your spine, put a traction splint on your leg, bag you if you can’t breathe, completely immobilize you if you’re injured, put out a fire, rack hose, pull you out of a burning building or a smashed car, and climb a 105-foot aerial ladder.
Whatever. That’s why I live in a civilization- so I don’t have to do all this crap myself.
I’ve done:
2
5-11
15-18
23
24
I haven’t done, but feel confident that I could if need be:
3
4
12
14
21
25
I don’t have a car, so I have no need to know:
1
6
20
22
That just leaves the fish fillet and the gun, which I’m sure I could learn easily enough.
Does knowing how to, hypothetically work? If so, put me down for:
If you just want things that I’ve done and know that I can do, put me down for 2,5,14, 16, and 17.
I even missed “Hook up an HDTV.” Give me a break. Why not just hire a nerd?
Let’s see the nerds at Popular Mechanics change and dress a 2-year-old. Then I’ll be impressed. Of course, that implies you might have what should be Manly Skill #1:
Have sex with a woman and bring her to orgasm.
Every man needs to be able to make up a bullshit list of what a real man needs to be able to do.
We require a note, in that case, signed by witnesses. Can’t rely on faked O’s.
Even though I know how to do all those, I still think a few things on the list are a little odd.
“Retouch a digital photo”? That’s girlie work, innit? A man isn’t freaked out by redeye. A man lets someone else splice Jessica Alba’s head onto … Er, never mind.
Doesn’t everyone know how to clean a bolt-action rifle? That’s elementary school stuff.
Can you do that in a washing machine?
Know whom to take shit from, and whom to give it to.
Know when to bullshit, and when to call bullshit.
Know what it is to work like a dog, and to play like a dog.
Know that you can learn life lessons from assholes that good people can never begin to teach.
Know when a man and a woman should approach each other as equals, and when they should do anything but.
Know when to question why, and when to do or die.
Know how to lose it, and pick it right back up again.
Know when to deny yourself nothing, and when to deny yourself everything.
Know that to defend against a hard, mean world it is sometimes necessary to be hard and mean.
Know that any life well lived is part rat race, and that to turn your back on competing and striving and achieving is to begin to die inside.
A man don’t need no frickin’ list to know he’s a man.
Eh. Yeah, I wanna take back a lot of that list I posted. I don’t believe most of it, and I promised myself I’d stop being so fucking dark and bleak on the Dope. A man ought to keep promises (as ought a woman, boy, or girl).