A web site advocating women in trade giving questionable advice?

Good to read from you again, even in the vexatious circumstances. Hope you are keeping well.

Now I must say I'm not sure of the significance of the trust her thing - I tried reading it as if it said 'trust him'  and advertising tradesmen instead and it just felt a little bit silly.
We are very much in a world where it would not normally matter, except for some few services that could be gender specific perhaps house care for an aged relative who does not want to be undressed by a member of the opposite sex. 

It does remind me a bit of some of the things that happened in the 1970s, when the women's rights thing was still on going in a more 'at war' kind of way , but these rightly were lampooned.

On another matter technically worrying for a UK site,  the page you link to is completely unsuited to the 230V world of loop through ceiling roses.

You'll typically see three wires: a black (hot) wire, a white (neutral) wire, and a green or bare copper (ground) wire. Ensure the new fixture's wires match these, and if not, consult the manual or a professional for guidance.

Next, connect the wires using wire nuts.

The prospective reader, either him or her would do much better on DIYnot..

I'll sit back now and see what others think.

M.

Good to read from you again, even in the vexatious circumstances. Hope you are keeping well.

Now I must say I'm not sure of the significance of the trust her thing - I tried reading it as if it said 'trust him'  and advertising tradesmen instead and it just felt a little bit silly.
We are very much in a world where it would not normally matter, except for some few services that could be gender specific perhaps house care for an aged relative who does not want to be undressed by a member of the opposite sex. 

It does remind me a bit of some of the things that happened in the 1970s, when the women's rights thing was still on going in a more 'at war' kind of way , but these rightly were lampooned.

On another matter technically worrying for a UK site,  the page you link to is completely unsuited to the 230V world of loop through ceiling roses.

You'll typically see three wires: a black (hot) wire, a white (neutral) wire, and a green or bare copper (ground) wire. Ensure the new fixture's wires match these, and if not, consult the manual or a professional for guidance.

Next, connect the wires using wire nuts.

The prospective reader, either him or her would do much better on DIYnot..

I'll sit back now and see what others think.

M.

If you ask ChatGPT to provide 10 steps on how to change a ceiling light fixture, you'll get something remarkably similar back! 

Flicking through some of the other articles on that site there is a marked difference in the style between some of the newer and older ones. The scary dangers of letting the marketing intern loose to write blog posts on electrical DIY with the help of large language models!

I did think it had a bit of an 'AI Generated' feel to it when I skim read it . . . also a rather strange fusion of UK and US terminology! 

- Ross

mapj1 said:

perhaps house care for an aged relative who does not want to be undressed by a member of the opposite sex

I cannot respond to this. Why? !!!