If you haven’t see the responses from Vice and Fit and Feminist response to the women of Women Against Feminism who don’t need feminism as it would deprive them of the men who open their jars for them, you’re in for a treat.
Tag: feminism
Feminist Foodie: Vetting Food Blogs
In light of my recent photo contribution to Sociological Images‘ #pointlesslygenderedfood, I’d like to talk about how I navigate food/recipe blogs as a feminist. You’d think this wouldn’t be so hard, and yet I live in a world surrounded (literally) by such gendered products as: When I’m home and looking for recipes to make, I don’t…
Cookpad Launches English Site (クックパッドの新しい英語でのレシピ)
Via Just Hungry. For those cooking in Japan, you may be interested to know that Cookpad, Japan’s most popular recipe site, is now being translated into English. I’m always a little skeptical of English-language guides to cooking in Japan, mainly because there are rarely ingredient translations and sometimes the measurements are in imperial instead of…
Aggressively Cooking Meat with Science: Father’s Day vs. Mother’s Day 2013
It’s that time again~ Last year, I wrote about how and what food is marketed for Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. 2012 “taught” us that quiche is girly but can man up; moms want family-friendly brunches; dads want beer, meat, and fire; and bullshit gender politics are alive and well in the world of big-name…
Storify: MuffinGate 2013
On June 25, 2013, Texas State Senator Wendy Davis led an epic filibuster trying to stop a bill that would severely restrict women’s access to abortion clinics in the state of Texas.Why is this on my food blog? Because CNN reported on muffins instead. See my favorites from MuffinGate below the cut.
Searchina Strikes Again: “Observations about Japanese Bento” Translation Butchers Actual Conclusion
日本語での反省はこちらです。 UPDATE (3/26)（日本語でも書いた更新） Oh, Searchina. About a year ago, one of my articles got picked up by their “American blog” series and translated into Japanese. I was particularly annoyed, as I wrote, because the translators assumed I was a male tourist and wrote about how “moved” I was by Japanese food. (I’m not the only…
I Did Not Order My Beer with a Side of Sexism
While I’ve regrettably come to expect national-brand beers to perpetuate the stereotype of beer as a man’s drink and insult women in the process, what about craft beers? Caroline Wallace of Bitch Beer recently discussed this in her article “How to alienate female beer drinkers in one easy step.” Bitch Beer is a Austin, Texas-based beer blog written by a…
The Jam of Oppression?: Feminism, “New Domesticity,” and Gender-Neutral Home Cooking
[note: this was edited to update terminology in 2016] A friend linked a really interesting article from the Washington Post: Emily Matchar‘s “The new domesticity: Fun, empowering or a step back for American women?” (26 Nov. 2011). I know this article is nearly a year old, but it demands contexualization. In this piece, Matchar discusses American…
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