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Verrerogo 8 points ago +8 / -0

Cooking isn't menial.

It should not frighten people, but it isn't simple.

It isn't stupid shit.

You can hire help for other things but food is personal and art.

Melania cooked Barron's dinner every night in the White House, and there were plenty of chefs. She knew it was love and connection. Barron grew up eating dinners that his mother's personal hands physically made. That matters.

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donjongun 3 points ago +3 / -0

Perhaps I used the wrong word for it. It does matter, cooking/food are very intimate and aren't stupid, but it is menial in the sense that libs shouldn't really give this much of a shit over her cooking for her husband.

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Verrerogo 3 points ago +3 / -0

Oh, in that sense no, they shouldn't.

To me, when a guy comes home tired, scarred and frazzled from working to pay your home's bills, it is reasonable to hold up your end and cook for him. It 's not as if he isn't earning what you are giving. Everybody has a job to do.

And it IS a powerful semiotics. Cooking well forces a man to not just see the woman as good for one thing. A good cook is never a nobody.

Feminism has never understood the potency and power of being the source of the family's food. When women let themselves be displaced by fast food and takeout food, they were relinquishing prestige and power within the family.

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donjongun 3 points ago +3 / -0

Amen to all of that!!!

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catch-a-penny 2 points ago +2 / -0

When women let themselves be displaced by fast food and takeout food, they were relinquishing prestige and power within the family.

Very well put and something I had not considered in that way.