Liberal feminists seem to be perpetually lodged in battle with men from the Mad Men generation…
…er, wherever they are:
Feminist author Jessica Valenti was pretty impressed with a piece in Glamour about a woman who has sworn off cooking for men now that her divorce has come through.
“I stopped cooking because I wanted to feel as unencumbered as a man walking through the door of his home with the expectation that something had been done for him.”
This, from @lyzl, is so so good. https://t.co/4BxADm622f
— Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) November 27, 2018
It’s Jessica Valenti, so you know it’s not actually “good”.
But you do know it’s wrenched straight from the little box of cultural cliches that no liberal enters an argument without.
Read the whole thing. Feel better about your own level of intellectual oomph.
What? A feminist still cooks? And here I thought that is what “refugees” from Central America were for.
It strikes me how many feminist authors/commentators generalize from their own sad little lives. I only the scanned some of the article; it’s written from only one perspective, but it’s clear that marriage was doomed. The woman is OCD with a martyr complex. She’s also narcissistic (oh-so-commonplace); the other “actors” in her drama were just bit players. How – Why – did she ever get married?
And from this, other feminists will draw conclusions for the rest of society?
Why is it always THE WOMAN who has to speed dial Dominoes Pizza?
Well, according to Democrap representative elect Kyrsten Sinema, that ingrate was just “leeching off of her husband” anyway, so why should we care?
The old-fashioned notion of a marriage was a man and woman who shared family chores according to desire/ability. I have no desire to cook, she lacks the ability to manhandle the snow blower. It works out.
What I want to know is why Jessica assumes a marriage must include a man she won’t cook for? Why not refuse to cook for a woman? Why not refuse to cook for a gay lesbian bisexual transgendered xividual? Why is Jessica such a hater?
I appreciated the comment about how the man who paid the bills was “unencumbered” as he walked through the door. Yup, that’s exactly what every guy sweating to make a paycheck feels like. Unencumbered.
It strikes me that a huge improvement in relationships between the sexes might be obtained with a goodly dose of reality this way. As the dad of six kids, I’m well aware of the fact that life is not all wine and roses for my wife. She at the same time is well aware of the fact that life is not all wine and chocolate for her husband. It works out well.
I think my wife has cooked maybe one or two meals a year for the family in the 20+ years we’ve been married. She frankly admits I’m a better cook than she is, and I frankly admit she’s better at cleaning than I am (my definition of “clean” is closer to a bachelor’s version than she likes).
We can divide up the work just fine, thank you.
Maybe Jessica should just admit that she lacks the adult ability to negotiate as a reasonable human being to reach an amicable solution to the “problem” of division of labor? Or that she lacks the ability to choose compatible partners?
Joe,
For your information, there are twenty-six (and counting) genders. Please try be more inclusive in the future by refraining from naming just the ones most unwoke people are aware of.
I think you can find templates out on the web that will help you keep track of them.
Third wave feminists are not fighting against the sexism of the 60’s. They’re fighting against men who don’t give them that kind of attention any more.
They’re unattractive, fat and lonely women who were forced into lesbian relationships or celibacy and hate men who listened to the first two waves of feminists.