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Get back in the kitchen!

Cassie

Cassie

Touching the monolith
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http://blog.cagle.com/2010/12/17/kitchen-is-not-a-dirty-word/

Kitchen is not a Dirty Word

Making Sense by Michael Reagan

We are rapidly becoming a nation whose distaff leadership is allowing radical feminists to redefine the role of motherhood.

Our moms are being all but ostracized by a raging cadre of radical feminists should they dare to consider cooking for their families to be a major part of their traditional role as wives and mothers.

In modern America, the feminists would take Mom out of the kitchen and put her in the drive-thru lane at the local fast-food chain (ironically, that’s verboten also). They have eulogized the nation’s First Lady for assuming the role of a food czar who instructs us on what chow is good for us and our children, who should cook it, and what foods should be kept off the national menu.

Mothers are looked at with withering stares should they teach their daughters how to cook, and fathers get the same treatment if they concern themselves with their daughters’ future role as wives and mothers.

If mothers would once again start teaching their daughters the time-honored role of family chef, and fathers would make sure that their wives are honored and cherished for making the kitchen one of their principal domains, we’d be a lot better off.

Instead we have a First Lady who sees her role as First Mother not only to instruct us on what we victuals we should eat, but warns us that the menu at the local fast food emporium is the diet from Hell.

She goes so far as to dig up patches of the White House lawn, formerly the site of the so-called Easter egg hunts, and plant the seeds of what she tells us are the staples of a healthy diet — a diet regimen in the White House kitchens one doubts includes whatever puny edibles grown on the lawn of the Executive mansion.

If she and her fellow radical feminists would devote more time to praising and defending the produce farmers and retailers bring us, and less time playing the role as diet dictators, meals would be family celebrations instead of burdensome chores for the moms who cook them.

Moreover, giving Mom a day off from cooking dinner by a making a family trip to the nearest hamburger joint would be seen as a gift to her rather than one of the mortal sins in an imaginary list of dietary commandments.

Their menu may be fattening, and viewed as one of the Lord’s practical jokes on his children by making such fare lip-smacking good, but enjoying it is not a flagrant violation of the dietary Ten Commandments. Slathered with mustard and ketchup it’s just plain tasty — fattening but tasty.

A happy home is one in which moms teach their daughters how to cook tasty meals for their future families and dads teach their sons that one of their roles in family life is drying the dishes and otherwise doing chores around the house to lighten Mom’s burdens.

Finally, women should understand and act on the time-honored truth that the fastest route to a man’s heart is through his stomach, and not always through the drive-in window at the nearest fast-food restaurant. That’s one way we can begin to put the family — and America — back together.

Bon Appetit!
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This cracked me up... I'mma go cook a tasty meal RIGHT NOW.
 
It was nice when we were all in the kitchen, sitting around the table, smoking cigarettes, drinking ice tea, and playing a fun game of Trivial Pursuit. With an apple cobbler in the oven and vanilla ice cream in the refrigerator to eat in a little while it was all the better. Those were fabulous days and I miss them. *sigh*
 
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Consumer: My ex liked being a housewife/pleasure slave too.
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LOL - well, it wasn't quite like that. I'm neither a dominant nor a submissive personality. I'm more of an "we can go together or I can go by myself and you can go do what you want."

There just used to be a time when me and my friends (spouses included in the "friends") would sit around the kitchen table and play cards and table games, chatting away, sharing a meal together, enjoying each other's face-to-face company. Then people got too busy with the kids after school activities, or were too tired after work, or moved away because of jobs, or couples split up and stopped coming around to see their old friends, some people died. Then with everyone having a computer at home we still meet up on occasion only it isn't in person but online in a chat or game room. We send each other Christmas letters. I miss those days when we all hung out together in person. I have friends I still run around with but we aren't a crowd anymore and we make plans to see each other instead of just dropping by each other's homes. Oh well. Someday I'll be living in the old folks home and I'll meet up with my cronies in the common room for a game of bridge and it will feel like old times.
 
My family is a little bit old fashioned, I cook dinner at least 5 nights a week, and we all eat together. It would probably be much different if I had a different job.
 
A family meal, regardless of who cooks it, is a good thing IMHO. That's one issue.

I think the more interesting issue is the idea of gender roles, and how many feminists not only reject but actively go after women who might want to follow a more "traditional" female role in her life.
I can understand why, often that role has NOT been properly appreciated in society (mostly by men). However, I think that we've had the last 50 years to try to start (and not complete) a balancing of the scales. It's time to be accepting of a traditionally feminine path as well as the "career woman".
In reality, I made enough money to let me ex not have to work, she went to school, worked part-time at a profession that she loved without worrying how much she made, and we spent a lot of very intense time together, which she had the time and energy for because she wasn't exhausted at work. It didn't seem like a bad lifestyle to me...
Now when she became a mother her life got a LOT harder, and I know she'd prefer working out of the house rather than being a full-time mom. That was more of a personal identity issue. Still, I know she worked hard as a mom.

It shouldn't be a bad thing in today's society for a woman to want to follow a traditionally feminine path.
 
I don't think it's a bad thing for a woman to choose to work at home, especially if she has a partner who realizes that cooking, cleaning, wiping poopy butts, and all that, is actually a job. A job that is at times extremely boring, depressing, and lonely. A job some even get paid to do.

I posted the article because it was really silly... some people will use any excuse to criticize Michelle Obama. Like growing a vegetable garden is somehow evil when she does it, and they didn't have an Easter egg hunt, they had a "so-called" Easter egg hunt. Or that her efforts to get people to eat a healthy diet equals some kind of diabolical plan to tell people what they have to eat. Bah. He turned it into an attack on moms and apple pie.
 
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