Cooking for others is degrading I guess - eviltoast

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  • GloriousDoubleK@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    This stuff right here is worth preserving. I love to cook. But I also only like to cook if it’s for more than just me.

    It’s really just a very basic human love language. Damn near primordial. It says; I am aware of hunger and I am aware of the joys of a full belly. And since I have the power to prevent you from feeling hunger; I will do that.

    To be THIS MAD over a woman wanting to feed her knuckle headed neighbors is stunning.

    Where I work, we used to do unsanctioned pot lucks. Outside the mandates of management. Stuff like that builds solidarity. I have older women coworkers who straight up feed me and on return; I usually find myself making sure I do most the heavy lifting in my job specifically for them because they’re older and I dont wanna see my coworkers risk hurting themselves.

    It aint patriarchy for women to cook for men. It’s patriarchy to MAKE women cook for men as a prescriptive expectation of gender roles.

    Why be angry at women who WANT to be motherly?