We often say “We are what we eat”.
It seems tough that “We are what we cook” could be more suitable for others.
Sure, because if you’re a man and you post a pic of just made triple chocolate muffins online, you could get one of your friends to call you gay, not even too subtly. And, also supposing you should be offended and remove the muffin pic straight away. As if anyone should be offended for the sexual orientation they’re conferred to by other people.
I won’t deal now with the fact that I find absolutely absurd that someone, in 2014, could think of insulting someone calling him homosexual. As if there was something wrong with it. As if they were blaming me for some kind of terrible crime: “don’t bake those muffins or you’ll end up being a mafioso who builds kindergartens with radioactive material in the ground”.
Yet, it seems that some people find it unacceptable that a straight male could cook something different from brontosaurus ribs, almost bothersome.
There are a lot of people who, regardless of the gender, sexual orientation and football team, can cook very well, and they seem to also have fun doing so, without anything harming their dignity.
At the same time, looks like lots of people, maybe not even realizing it, preserve these stereotypes, with the only outcome of limiting their freedom and never eating some amazing triple chocolate muffins.
What I’m asking is: why?
What kinds of dynamics lead to this behaviour?
Can so many stereotypes exist even in culinary environment?
Anyway, those muffins were delicious.
