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To add to the anecdata, in my group of friends, most of the people who cook are male, whether for pleasure or for sustenance. Through my entire dating life, I

To add to the anecdata, in my group of friends, most of the people who cook are male, whether for pleasure or for sustenance. Through my entire dating life, I have found it rare for a woman to know how to cook, let along enjoy it, like I do. It’s been a big sticking point for me.

rootusrootus 7y ago
Same here. Aside from my own parents, among my group of friends it's usually the man doing the cooking. I cook, and my wife does the dishes. No complaints from me.
- dd36 7y ago
  Same.
  - jelliclesfarm 7y ago
    Likely because women were shackled to the kitchen before they burnt their bras. Feminism..at its advent..created this narrative that working outside is great and household work is holding them back from progressing towards gender equality. However this didn’t translate as much to having children. Despite feminism and higher education and financial independence, women continue to have children at the same rate or higher than before. If anything, impoverished women choose to have lesser children due to the financial burden they’d create for them. This is confounding to me. Maybe it’s the influence of religion or the biological imperative is stronger because mundane and menial tasks like cooking and even child rearing can be outsourced to cooks, day care and schools. On a different note, cooking is a communal activity. In societies where work isn’t all consuming, communal bonding occurs through cooking. And so it’s a prized skill to learn. Cooking as a service is brilliant for any economy that places work culture over communal culture. So it will succeed here in the US.
    - TheCoelacanth 7y ago
      > women continue to have children at the same rate or higher than before This is false. Birth rates are way down.
      - jelliclesfarm 7y ago
        Not low enough. Population grows exponentially. With death rate declining, birth rate must slow down significantly as population pressure increases.
- avip 7y ago
  Cleaning after yourself is part of the activity. If you don't clean the kitchen, you're not cooking in any meaningful sense. I'm sure you don't leave a mess behind when coding.
  - rootusrootus 7y ago
    I suppose it is always afternoon somewhere, but it seems pretty early to me to be drinking.

rootusrootus 7y ago

Same here. Aside from my own parents, among my group of friends it's usually the man doing the cooking. I cook, and my wife does the dishes. No complaints from me.

dd36 7y ago
Same.
- jelliclesfarm 7y ago
  Likely because women were shackled to the kitchen before they burnt their bras. Feminism..at its advent..created this narrative that working outside is great and household work is holding them back from progressing towards gender equality. However this didn’t translate as much to having children. Despite feminism and higher education and financial independence, women continue to have children at the same rate or higher than before. If anything, impoverished women choose to have lesser children due to the financial burden they’d create for them. This is confounding to me. Maybe it’s the influence of religion or the biological imperative is stronger because mundane and menial tasks like cooking and even child rearing can be outsourced to cooks, day care and schools. On a different note, cooking is a communal activity. In societies where work isn’t all consuming, communal bonding occurs through cooking. And so it’s a prized skill to learn. Cooking as a service is brilliant for any economy that places work culture over communal culture. So it will succeed here in the US.
  - TheCoelacanth 7y ago
    > women continue to have children at the same rate or higher than before This is false. Birth rates are way down.
    - jelliclesfarm 7y ago
      Not low enough. Population grows exponentially. With death rate declining, birth rate must slow down significantly as population pressure increases.
avip 7y ago
Cleaning after yourself is part of the activity. If you don't clean the kitchen, you're not cooking in any meaningful sense. I'm sure you don't leave a mess behind when coding.
- rootusrootus 7y ago
  I suppose it is always afternoon somewhere, but it seems pretty early to me to be drinking.