High Street at Cruelery.com - The Web's Bitter Afterbirth / Why I hate food

Taint · 2012-09-02 08:27:39

I think I love this woman.

Becoming a mother seemed to increase the number of interactions I had with people attempting to make me feel insecure. People began asking many questions designed to determine if I was nursing too much or too little, whether I was too attached or not attached enough, and how I planned to educate my progeny, i.e. was I planning to home school? (Add providing a comprehensive K-12 education to that to-do list!) When my children began eating solid food, people were curious to know what I was feeding them, i.e. did I use a food mill and grind the sweet potato myself or did it come from a jar?

Emmeran · 2012-09-02 09:05:18

Don't be such a fag

She lost me with this line: {women} ...throughout millennia have disproportionately taken care of childrearing

Disproportionate my ass: Like they've ever backed off enough to let the guys help - men are just window dressing until the kids hit puberty at which point we're supposed to come in and save the fucking day.

fnord · 2012-09-02 09:38:58

This woman and her concerns are incomprehensibly weird to me. People who question how she breastfeeds her babies or prepares food for her toddlers need to be told to STFU and mind their own business, not taken seriously and given rationalizations for how she chooses to lead her life. It's all very nice that some people plant huge vegetable gardens, bake bread, and raise chickens if that's how they want to lead their lives, but I feel no guilt about not leading my life this way. If they get warm smurgley feelings about themselves when they look down on everybody else, how nice for them; I don't give a shit about their warm smurgles.

Taint · 2012-09-02 09:50:17

I think we read two entirely different articles. I really dug her snipe at the holier-than-thou food snobs who take all the fun out of eating.

fnord · 2012-09-02 10:19:48

Taint wrote:
I think we read two entirely different articles. I really dug her snipe at the holier-than-thou food snobs who take all the fun out of eating.

Not at all. To some extent, the people who raise their own food or buy organic local food make her feel insecure about her own choices. She has smurgles envy!

Taint · 2012-09-02 10:50:57

fnord wrote:
Taint wrote:
I think we read two entirely different articles. I really dug her snipe at the holier-than-thou food snobs who take all the fun out of eating.
Not at all. To some extent, the people who raise their own food or buy organic local food make her feel insecure about her own choices. She has smurgles envy!

To some extant, sure. Note, though, that she lives in Portland, Oregon. I live in the Bay Area. The amount of self-righteousness that accompanies food choices in both places is, at best, utterly absurd and, at worst, grating. Food is very important to me: I make my living from it through either cooking it or writing about it. I enjoy all aspects of food: cooking and eating it, devising new dishes, and - perhaps even more than the previous items - its sociology and history.

What I can't stand are the half-wits who season their food with ideology and sanctimony. It's just food and, while I find food and the topic of food immensely enjoyable, engrossing even, it's still just food.

Emmeran · 2012-09-02 16:20:12

Taint wrote:
What I can't stand are the half-wits who season their food with ideology and sanctimony.

Wait! I thought I was fully up to date on my spices: where the hell do I find ideology and sanctimony?

And do I want it fresh or will dried ideology do? Red whine or Blue whine?

I'm so fucking confused now...

Last edited by Emmeran (2012-09-02 16:20:52)