Ladies, how do you feel about my position on ladies cooking...?

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R. Gaspari

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I must confess that when a young woman is a good cook, I find this to be a terribly delightful attribute because there are so few ladies that can cook in my area. I regard cooking as a form of art that I am terrible at. I would like to take a cooking course, but my first true love prepared an Italian dish for me once, and though it tasted like cardboard, I found it so charming that she took the time to do something so lovely for me.

These days very few ladies around me know how to cook or care about it. Being able to cook is not a requisite in terms of what I look for, but it sure is nice. Why do Feminists consider this to be misogynistic or oppressive to ladies when all I'm saying is that I like it when ladies can cook (it's charming). It's not in the least about being tied to the kitchen or these other awful images that Feminist ladies often paint when discussing what I regard as a beautiful form of art?

Why are Feminists so quick to judge others when they don't know much about her or him?
 
Opinions are like elbows. Everyone has one. Yours is that you like a girl who can cook. That's YOUR opinion. It's not my place to have an opinion on your opinion :-)

That said, I think that everyone should know how to cook enough to take care of their own basic needs. If they don't they're education is incomplete.
 
Feminists would be quick to judge you because you've already stereotyped women and said most of them can't cook. Feminists don't really care about your opinion on women who can cook, they have bigger fish to fry.
 
Trust me I can cook. I love to cook most of the time, and I love it when people enjoy one of my meals. I take great pride in making the meal look as appealing as the taste as well.

It was not always that way though. When I first met my husband I invited him over for dinner and made lasagna. It was terrible, but he ate it and acted like it was the best meal he ever had. Had he not done that I don't know that I ever would have pursued cooking skills and classes I have taken.

Women are not born a good cook, it takes time and practice to establish that skill.
 
Most feminists really don't think that, there's just some crazy feminists out there. I hate cooking but yay for your future culinarily talented girlfriend!
 
I can not relate to some peoples supposed inability to cook, its a life skill, and if you do not possess it or try to attain it, you have no business having children.

Perhaps feminists should be blamed for childhood obesity, since they are shoving high sodium frozen meals at their kids, and fat laden snacks.

You need to make it a REQUIREMENT that anyone you are with needs to know how to cook and to enjoy it, cause the last thing you need is a lazy good for nothing who doesnt care about their health.
 
I would agree that cooking for someone is a nice gesture. I think the point of contention would be the gender issue - there's no reason why a woman cooking for a man would be a good thing whereas a man cooking for a woman wouldn't. It's generally a kind gesture to prepare food for someone, regardless of the genders of the people involved.

My fiancee and I both occasionally cook for each other - badly. (Neither of us was really raised to cook, so we're both pretty experimental with it, and usually revert to very simple dishes or simply eat out somewhere). But the key is, neither of us expects the other to prepare food as part of a gender role - we both simply recognize it as a rather useful lifeskill, and not one that either of us is particularly proficient with.
 
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