Removing the feeding tube from our aging hipster plaid pants

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Nah. It's self-confidence. Try it sometime.

I know that pink frothy drinks make me feel extra sexy.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by bilmore
As a cultural thing, and stereotyping wildly, I suppose, men get to cook, while women have to cook. Small wonder it's more fun for us.

There's that, but I think there's a subtler issue of cultural assumptions about identity & sex - it's not about choosing the activity, but the idea that women should somehow be able to do it just because they are women, and if they can't (or they have to be taught how) they are somehow lacking a basic element of womanhood (or having to compensate for being inadequate females with remedial training).

Which I think is a weird and actually pretty new idea. Used to be those "feminine arts" types of skills had all this romantic baggage about being passed from mother to daughter - i.e.: part of the feminine mystique of it all was the fact that it WAS taught/learned behavior. Seems to me that many of our (generationally generalizing) mothers, the first wave of post-Freidan feminist mothers, either consciously refused to learn those skills from their mothers and/or consciously refused to teach them to their daughters, generally with some idea of breaking the chain of domestic servitude. So many women of my generation were not taught things like cooking, housekeeping (which also is a learned skill, though far less acknowledged than cooking as such and at least as complicated), dressing, decorating, etc. by their mothers, and we somehow got this idea that, since we wern't taught them but were still somehow expected to do them, they must be innate skills not learned ones. And if there is something you are supposed to be able to do without being taught, and you can't, there is something wrong with you.

Generalizing wildly, of course.

ed to fix crappy grammar.

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by Cletus Miller
http://www.blantonsbourbon.com

A first-ever post with a helpful answer. Welcome!

Is that stuff any good? Thanks to sebby, I've been drinking Knob Creek or Maker's Mark in places that don't have Bushmills or Jamesons.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
I know that pink frothy drinks make me feel extra sexy.

I know that after a few of them you look at least kind of sexy.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
I know that after a few of them you look at least kind of sexy.

You have totally crushed my will to live.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Not Bob
A first-ever post with a helpful answer. Welcome!

Is that stuff any good? Thanks to sebby, I've been drinking Knob Creek or Maker's Mark in places that don't have Bushmills or Jamesons.

Try Booker's. It's unique. Stronger than hell, though.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Try Booker's. It's unique. Stronger than hell, though.

Grunt grunt grunt.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
You have totally crushed my will to live.

Really? I wasn't even trying to do that. Perhaps I should use the same lines with Hank.

Originally posted by mmm3587
If you really can't/don't cook, why try for this guy? Unless you are really going to put in the effort and try the recipes out a few times to see how they work, nothing a novice tries for the first time is going to be that good.

Just put on a tight shirt and talk to the lesbian buther at Whole Foods about some easy-to-grill pre-prepared stuff they have there, and bust out with some of their other pre-prepared stuff. It's good.

Is butcher a common lesbian profession? As barely can testify, I had a big ole bulldyke chasing me around Cleveland Park for awhile. She told me to come by to sample her meat. I asked ifshe had anything in a soy cheese pizza.

[Flinty_McFlint]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
You know, sometimes it's just nice to do something for other people, even if it's not done well.

That is what my business cards say.

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by mmm3587
Is that finally going to be out on DVD any time soon? I gave up hope when Amazon kept e-mailing me with the bad news of continued delays...

eta Various sources say May 24, but they've been pushing back the dates for two years.

Let's get together for a "Complaint Box" viewing party.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Feminist identity blather

Or, to put it another way, it reminds me of something someone once told me about the difference between how Brits and Americans have sex.

Americans are self-helpers and improvers. Anything they can do, they can be doing better, and thus the self-help book industry, which, among other things, tells us all how to be attractive, loving, loved, sexual dynamos who never get headaches or are too tired to get it up, etc.

Contrast the Brits, who would never get (or at least never be caught dead getting) advice on how to do it better, because skill at sex is innate and it is unseemly to want (and humiliating to admit to needing) advice or outside knowledge of how it should be done or done better.

Thus, Americans tend to be better in bed despite being way more conservative about who they will sleep with and when.

[Flinty_McFlint]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
I do not cook. What is something easy but reasonably impressive that I can cook for Commando Boy?

[Helpful and not so helpful responses]

You already know my answer to this: I would hit him in the head with a brick and send him some sort of baked goods.

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by Flinty_McFlint
You already know my answer to this: I would hit him in the head with a brick and send him some sort of baked goods.

He does love my cookies. I bake fantastic cookies.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
He does love my cookies. I bake fantastic cookies.

Good girl. The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.