Wait? Cooking has a gender?

Women were originally looked at as the primary stay at home workers meaning that they would do all the household tasks including cooking, cleaning, etc. However, since the intrusion of men on an act that most women used to prove their love, value, and care there have been almost divisions between who is the more dominant in this act. Somehow it is perceived that similar to any non-household job, cooking is some form of an indicator as to what gender is the better in comparison to the other. Jessamyn Neuhaus in Lady Like Lunches and Manly Meals highlights how for men there were specific guidelines that had to be followed by men to secure the “masculinity” of the hobby of cooking. Just that statement in itself shows exactly my point on how cooking is some indicator of which gender is better.

 

In the modern world, there are all these false stigmas that a man’s meal is large and thus requires more preparation and components. Women on the other hand have dainty meals of salads, fruits, etc. However, anyone who has cooked knows that this is nothing more than someone’s humorous ploy on dietary habits that has extended too long over time. If such were the case, ironically, how would one even justify deserts? A man has a cake, while a woman has a cookie? It’s just inconceivable how one can try to support such dragged out concepts that can’t be seen naturally.

 

I mean for the sake of all that is good, look at this meme. In it a man’s cooking requires something already packaged. And this person is so foreign to the act that he can't even identify that this is what the directions want him to do.

 

In this picture it baffles me because someone genuinely believes that cooking and the art of cooking is based on gender. Whether something tastes good or not has nothing to do with what kind of person made it as opposed to the culinary skill of the person who made it.

 

Now This, THIS IS BEAUTIFUL!!

 

I would dare to say that this sums it up nicely wouldn't you?