In western culture it's acceptable for men to be helpless babies who refuse to learn how to do simple household chores like cooking, laundry or cleaning that are coded as female.
A similar condition exists for women where it's considered cutesy to refuse to learn how to change a tire, pump a bicycle, drill a hole in the wall or other basic DIY tasks that are coded as male.
Alton Brown, Emeril Lagasse, Bobby Flay, Jamie Oliver, Wolfgang Puck, Martin Yan, Gordon Ramsay, Guy Fieri, all the Iron Chefs. Now you name some female ones. Julia Child? Been dead for decades. Paula Deen, I guess?
It's such a tired, ugly stereotype that I thought died years ago. "LOL men can't cook, they need a woman to do it for them"
It's absolutely a played out stereotype but it's really not a fair analysis to compare the most celebrated members of a profession with its most amateur participants. Mostly since if you pick just about any profession the most famous people will be men because patriarchy and whatnot
lmao do some self-crit. you can name all those men because being a chef is a prestigious job, extra so for a celebrity chef and that has nothing to do with home cooking.
The point being that the stereotype of the man who can't cook and needs a woman to do it for him needs to be buried and forgotten. I thought it already was, frankly, and really surprised to see it pop back up.
"Men can't cook" is such a tired 1950s cliche
Some really can't, which unfortunately feeds the cliche.
In western culture it's acceptable for men to be helpless babies who refuse to learn how to do simple household chores like cooking, laundry or cleaning that are coded as female.
A similar condition exists for women where it's considered cutesy to refuse to learn how to change a tire, pump a bicycle, drill a hole in the wall or other basic DIY tasks that are coded as male.
Alton Brown, Emeril Lagasse, Bobby Flay, Jamie Oliver, Wolfgang Puck, Martin Yan, Gordon Ramsay, Guy Fieri, all the Iron Chefs. Now you name some female ones. Julia Child? Been dead for decades. Paula Deen, I guess?
It's such a tired, ugly stereotype that I thought died years ago. "LOL men can't cook, they need a woman to do it for them"
It's absolutely a played out stereotype but it's really not a fair analysis to compare the most celebrated members of a profession with its most amateur participants. Mostly since if you pick just about any profession the most famous people will be men because patriarchy and whatnot
lmao do some self-crit. you can name all those men because being a chef is a prestigious job, extra so for a celebrity chef and that has nothing to do with home cooking.
The point being that the stereotype of the man who can't cook and needs a woman to do it for him needs to be buried and forgotten. I thought it already was, frankly, and really surprised to see it pop back up.
that guy's problem and the problem of men weaponizing incompetence isn't going to go away just because we stop talking about it.