Or, “A box of chocolates is like life: full of problematic masculine posturing.”
Tag: sexism
Bored of Sexism in Craft Beer, 2014 ed.: Pig Minds
In a case of “same problem, different brewer,” Pig Minds has released a “panty dropper” complete with a sexist label: [sarcasm] I mean, what do you expect, with a name like “Pig Minds”?!1 They’re so edgy and you just know it’s going to push the boundaries, so lighten up, ugh! [/sarcasm] Do we really have to…
A Message from the Feminist Jar-Openers Association
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.
The Gender Binary in Health Magazines (Notes on “Are You Working Hard Enough to Achieve Your Natural Body?”)
I am not a healthy-living blogger, but let me take a side-step from food to health for a moment here: I snapped this shot at Bartell Drugs in May and submitted it to Sociological Images’ #PointlesslyGenderedProducts via Twitter, and now it’s a post! I wanted to discuss this image a little further here on the blog…
That’s Mr. IPA to You: Making Sense of Responses to “Mouth-Raper IPA”
Warning: I’m going to write the word rape so many times it’s going to not sound like a word anymore. Also, there will be some discussion of beerbro comments and attitudes about rape culture. If you’ve been following my social media, especially twitter, lately, you’ve seen the Rebecca Rose piece “Dude, ‘Mouth Raper’ Is Not…
Brogurt, “Check-Out Shame,” and Other Tales of Pointlessly Gendered Food
Today’s adventure in Pointlessly Gendered Products and the People Who Sell Them is brought to you by the Wall Street Journal via Anne Marie Chaker’s piece “Groceries Become a Guy Thing: As Men Shop More, Packaging Aims to Win Them Over; ‘Inner Abs’ Appeal” (16 Oct. 2013). Can cookies, whole-grain bread and frozen yogurt be manly? Food…
“The Boys Club with Also Some Icky Girls in It Ew Gross This Club is Hereby Disbanded.”
For some on-point snark about women being left out of narratives about chefs and restaurants, check out “Amanda Cohen on Time Magazine and Female Chefs” on Eater. Choice quotes: The most boring story in the food world is this one: magazine puts together a list of the most important/best/most influential chefs, which doesn’t include any…
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…
Kitchen Library, 2013.08.19
In this much belated edition of Kitchen Library: “fun” with moving, I love Fremont, and retro food links.
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…
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…
A Bento is Not As Big As the World
（サチーナの翻訳が更新された？！）UPDATE on the Searchina Translation (3/26) This is a companion piece to “‘Deeply Ingrained Advantages’: American Media Discovers Kyûshoku.” At the same time as Japan’s school lunch programs got picked up by the media, there was a burst of articles about Japan’s other distinctive lunch: the bento. Bento and the Cult of Cute In the…
I'll Make It Myself! 