This weekend Sabrina made me baked ziti for dinner. When I say she made it, we’re talking no shortcuts, no instant baked ziti, but cooking from family recipes that go back generations. This got me thinking again about how few women my age and younger know how to cook. I have lucked out in that the women I have been with had cooking skills. My women have cooked for me all sorts of things.
I have to wonder how the women who don’t know how to cook eat. I suppose they know who to use a microwave maybe. Of course, they probably think they should get taken out to really expensive restaurants every night because they have gold platinum plated vaginas. Anything else is outright misogyny.
Wherever I go now, its clear that men know how to cook. Sure most men aren’t going to be great chefs (although the best chefs in the world are almost always men), but everyone needs to eat so it helps to have some skills in this area. Men recognize this for what it is, A BASIC LIFE SKILL that a competent adult should be able to handle. It’s unbelievable that women expect to be taken seriously when missing such a basic life skill.
Since I am a STD Co-Futurist of the Year, here’s a prediction. The next generation of women or the generation of women after that will not even be able to prepare cereal. Yes, pouring cereal into a bowl followed by pouring milk into a bowl will not be skill most women of the next generation or the generation after will possess. After all, only an a misogynist with an evil rape tool attached to him would suggest than women should know how to prepare cereal. Remember, you heard it here first.
“My women have cooked for me all sorts of things.”
Well, no wonder men aren’t finding women who can cook, you’re hogging them all. Try sticking with one woman so that other men can have some good choices.
Damn. You can’t preach about how unfair it is for us men in Feminazi-world and then hog the halfway decent women and expect us to follow your logic.
No Sir, I don’t like it.
Drat! You caught me. Just wait until in the future I hog all the women who can prepare cereal. Not only will you not have women capable of cooking but you won’t be able to find women who can prepare a bowl of cereal.
You laugh but this is the problem going on with Islamist countries which are patriarchal but allow a man 4 wives and as many ‘fake’ wives as they want which really narrows down the wife-pool for all of the other poor saps.
Now you may be really successful and good-looking but I’m not which narrows my chances of even finding someone who respects men and has life skills. See what I mean, bro?
If we are going to stick it out for each other that means we really have to be monogamous when we find a good woman so that other men can have a chance too. Not to mention the fact that the decent chicks you probably dumped for a new one (I doubt they dumped YOU) probably became bitter over men and therefore are now pure JUNK and are ruined for the next guy because they are damaged goods.
It’s guys like YOU who make women Feminazis!
HEY. I’m only with one woman right now.
Brah. You don’t get it.
Stick to that one and stay with her so the rest of us guys can have a chance with the rest of the women.
I’d like a wife one day myself that is not ruined by men like you who take a good woman and then throw her away and upgrade.
This is how the whole Feminazi crap started. We gotta be men and realize we are part of the problem. I don’t want someone like YOU ruining MY chances because you think you are all that and a sack of chips.
About ten years ago I overheard…
“Making dinner is so much easier since I got a cell phone”.
It’s just lmao bad what’s out there circling for men sometimes.
Any woman who can’t cook fairly well simply isn’t relationship material. At this point, I would consider lack of minimal culinary skills a deal-breaker.
My current LTR is fairly good at cooking, and quite enjoys cooking for me. Last Saturday, she cooked a delicious steak dinner, with braised green beans and baked potato wedges. It was quite delicious.
The ironic thing is, cooking isn’t even that hard. You just have to be able to follow a recipe and be able to plan a semi-coherent meal. Of course, for some modern women, that’s just too much trouble.
I have to wonder how the women who don’t know how to cook eat.
Me too, along with other wonders about women my age who do not posses other basic housekeeping know-how and simple DIY skills. I know a woman who didn’t know where her circuit breakers were or how to turn off the water on her toilet. *confused*
What I find most sad and bizarre about the death of cooking skills isn’t even the necessity to stay alive aspect so much as women losing out on that special way to care for others. When you share a meal with others, it’s not just about eating but something deeper. When you cook for your family, it’s not just about putting food on the table. When you make homemade dumplings, chicken stock, and ginger tea for a sick loved one, you’re giving them something richer than a tray for their sick bed. When you bake with small children you’re offering them something more than practical skills. To cook is an important part of being human, I think, something that goes above and beyond the simple task of food prep. I’ve wrote about this before. I feel the same way with many other aspects of “domestic drudgery” as well. When women look at all of their domestic work as “chores”, they miss out on something deeper.
All those “strong and independent women” are independent of cooking knowledge, knowledge of how to flip a switch, and knowledge of how to turn a small valve.
And they don’t need no man….
until the dinner needs sautéing, the tire needs changing, a ditch needs digging, or a toilet needs some plunging.
See, men are unnecessary.
In the future the next generation of women will not need a man until the TV needs to be turned on or a light switch needs to be flipped since they won’t know how to operate a remote control or a light switch. Remember suggesting a woman learn to operate a remote control or learn how to flip a light switch means that your a misogynist with an evil rape tool between your legs.
Will we even have such things in the future? I have hopes of talking to my house to have lights, music, and gas fireplaces turn on. This reality would make female ineptitude all the more comical. Just think if the sex who talks the most couldn’t manage technology that you speak to.
Remember suggesting a woman learn to operate a remote control or learn how to flip a light switch means that your a misogynist with an evil rape tool between your legs.
Even if you’re a woman! I recently received an irate email from a feminazi who was outraged I suggested that women know how to cook and manage housekeeping. I also advocated women know how to use tools, own some DIY home repair books, and be able to change tires, but this was not mentioned in her tirade. She must have missed it as surely this would be misogyny as well.
Yes we will have that technology in the future, and yes women won’t be able to operate it. She will wait in the dark for her husband/boyfriend to tell the house to turn on the lights if she has one. By that point a lot of men will have gone the sexbot route since the sexbot will be able to turn the lights on/off as needed and be more capable than most women.
Ever since women have figured out how to give themselves real orgasms it’s gone downhill from there. It was so nice when they just faked them and didn’t know what a real one was. Now they think they don’t even need us.
Not only do they not know how to cook, they have no dietary sense. Their uncontrollable sensual appetites drive them to want to eat out all the time and when home, eat pure crap (usually swimming in sugar and lacking any fiber or nutritional value).
Are there any women who know how to make oatmeal that doesn’t come in a small bag anymore?
Allow me to recommend Dream Dinners. You make the food assembly line fashion, freeze it, and defrost them as needed. They are tremendous! And they take a lot of the effort out of cooking.
“Are there any women who know how to make oatmeal that doesn’t come in a small bag anymore?”
You bet! And the oats take all of 20 minutes to cook as well. Plus she is a great cook. I handle the grill.
Q: What do American women make for dinner?
A: Reservations.
Used to be a JAP joke, but now it applies to the lot of American princesses. The only women I’ve known who could cook properly were all at least born in another country.
Um, yeah why should we silly women be concerning ourselves with things like “earning money” and “buying a home” and “providing for our families” when we could be doing something ultra-stupid, useless, and low-status like cooking or cleaning?!
God, how are we going to SAVE our Economy if more women aren’t willing to pop out babies and learn completely useless “life skills” that will earn you…..ohhh…NOTHING at home…..
And are worth about $6.50 per hour (cooking or maid service) in the Job Market. So you think there are motivated, successful men who want a useless, skillless woman who cannot hold her own, cannot jump in and earn equally when needed, and will never be able to contribute to the finances?
None. That’s how many. The only men who want those women are the ones who want to keep a woman under their thumb because they know that she’d leave in a heartbeat if she had any other option.
Calling these things “skills” is like rewarding a man for picking up his own underwear or wiping his own ass. These are things that don’t require any skill, any talent, or any thought and are things that most humans already know and disregard as “stupid” at birth.
Staying at home (without income or income-earning potential) is death for men AND women in this Economy and you clearly aren’t very rational or logical in what actual “life skills” are.
Men need a woman who doesn’t crumple under pressure, who can earn with him, who is motivated WITH him……I don’t know a single successful man who has an unsuccessful woman.
Like minds attract like minds and if you’re only skills are things that you can pay a Mexican $2.00 to do, she’s not going to be landing any “successful” or intelligent men.
Did you think about this before you posted it?
Although I am very anal about my cleaning, I don’t consider it “a skill”. It’s not.
I don’t cook at all, never have, and never will because I hate the way food smells when cooking, hate to be hot, and really have no interest in general in “food” other than quick choking something down long enough to survive, but not get fat.
Seriously…..cooking? LMAO
Pretty girls with educations don’t have to learn those skills because they are never desperate enough to have to perform them for any man.
No woman should ever allow herself to be in a position where she MUST stay with her husband, boyfriend, LTR, etc. Being financially independent of your partner is really the only way to ensure you are dating for the right reasons, staying together for the right reasons, and also to make sure that you can make a clean break someday if you leave him/split up.
Also, everyone knows that both men and women who receive a College Education have happier and longer marriages, divorce less, and have less problems with infidelity than couples of lower education or couples where one person has only a High School education.
So now you’re suggesting that men and women intentionally learn retard-skills so that they have LESS of a chance of their marriage surviving?
Is your post supposed to be sarcastic? I mean, you don’t believe that men care about cooking skills, do you? Sure, right after they “care” about her face, her body, her height, her weight, her race, her age, and maybe her ability to have children.
And quite honestly, if a man wants dinner he needs to either hire a maid/chef/servant and pay them to do it, or do it himself.
A man who needs to be “cared for” like a child is completely unattractive and is most certainly a dealbreaker for me.
I think of them just like the men who allow women to pay for dates. They weren’t raised right and should be ignored. Why are you teaching men to make SURE they’re ignored and laughed at by any women with options?
and learn completely useless “life skills” that will earn you…..ohhh…NOTHING at home…..
I’ve done quite well for myself/family financially by using my “useless” cooking skills at home. Combining my kitchen skills with my chemistry education has also proved to be quite good for my family. Some might even call my home business and earnings “rewarding”, doubly so as my efforts have allowed me to take my career along with me during the several PCS moves that have been required of my husband during our marriage thus far.
I’ve also baked thousands upon thousands of cookies to send to my husband and his soldiers in the sandbox, hosted many holiday dinners for soldiers and military families with nowhere else to do (sometimes with 40+ people in attendance), and have brought many, many meals to families with a new baby, sick children, injured spouse, and once following the news that their husband/father had been KIA. In all those instances I’d respectfully beg to differ that the kindness that comes in food “means nothing” to people, is “useless” and a waste of my time and have numerous thank you notes and emails that would prove otherwise. Many of the notes came from the sorts of people you’d never expect to write such a note.
Men need a woman who doesn’t crumple under pressure, who can earn with him, who is motivated WITH him……I don’t know a single successful man who has an unsuccessful woman.
This is the one point in your comment with which I agree, but for some men who do work in careers that are a last bastion of traditional wifehood as my husband does, cooking, cleaning, sewing, entertaining, and keeping up the yard are, to a certain extent, genuine needs. I can earn/save/invest money, run a business, snake a toilet, not cry as my husband walks away onto the plane, and, be the sole caretaker of our child for the entire time my husband is away. But I can also pull off a great dinner party cooked from scratch, sew costumes for my daughter’s dance recitals, bake bread, and grow heirloom tomatoes. And fwiw, my husband can obviously cook, clean, iron, and sew himself as all of that are necessary skills for soldiers in addition to the usual tasks of cleaning weapons, packing parachutes, and so forth.
Your advice is no less wrong or unable to be applied across the board as the words you are decrying.
What do you mean that you “don’t know how a grown woman lives if she doesn’t cook”???
The same way men live when they’re single/living alone/don’t cook!
Restaurants, take-out, and a boyfriend/husband who loves to cook (which is any and all Italian men, btw ladies).
And microwaving or using the toaster oven IS considered “cooking” to people who don’t cook, trust me.
I do wonder about some of the comments here, though.
Why do I consistently see the word “need us” all over the place? Do you really want a woman to be with you because she NEEDS you???
I don’t get this and it’s definitely not just men who say it, I hear women saying “need me” all the time, too.
Don’t you guys realize that if your partner “needs” to be with you, it’s unlikely that they just WANT to be with you?
Are people so desperate that they like being “needed” by a parter even if they know that it’s JUST need and not love, desire, or even respect?
Maybe cause their mothers couldn’t be troubled to teach them?
I know, I know, it’s okay to hate on young women…. at least they are YOUNG and so belong to at least one hated group…. but an Old Woman… well that’s privilege SQUARED.
Have you like… actually talked to older women? It’s not that hard to prick the surface and reveal the child-eating Baba Yaga underneath.
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Hestia–
Keyword in your post: “Chemistry Education”. I will try to clarify my point.
I was saying that unless a man/woman is a Chef or a Caterer or has a ‘career’ in cooking……it is unlikely that “homemaking skills” are going to be very useful in modern marriage (meaning that while those skills will help you get by, let’s be honest and admit that our current Economy doesn’t allow for many households to have one parent staying home exclusively.
And the other key point I was trying to make is that ONLY having “homemaking skills” (which you clearly ALSO have an education) are not a smart move for a modern woman OR man because:
1. You cannot “count on” the fact that your spouse can provide all income for you and your children for life regardless of their gender.
2. A woman in today’s world NOT having “other skills” or a decent education put her into a VERY difficult position because she then basically HAS to stay with a husband no matter how he treats her/their kids. That’s not a wise move for a man OR a woman (in terms of making sure you have your own money or skills if something happens)
3. It is also harmful to the spouse to not have “additional skills” because as I already said (and you said you agreed with) a wife/woman should be able to jump in and provide as quickly as the man (when needed) and also have the intelligence to be motivated/successful with him.
You don’t see a lot of “wealthy successful man w/ poor, uneducated woman” or “wealthy successful women w/ poor, uneducated man” either these days other than in Hollywood.
I *think* that like minds attract like minds and if a woman (or man) wants a successful/motivated/educated partner…..they have to be able to hold their own just as well as their partner.
It would be hard for a couple to respect each other if only one person has all the wealth and motivation……and the other just doesn’t.
So for you, Hestia you are NOT relying on just your “homemaking skills” to get by and that’s why I say I think the post is unfair in being calling cooking “useful life skills”. Sure, they are…….but so is being able to wipe your own ass and boil water….and they aren’t skills that are going to help you in the real world (without the education to go with it).
That’s why I think the complaints from men about women “not staying home” or “not cooking and cleaning” are pretty ridiculous. A woman/mother NEEDS to have her own income for the purposes of being able to raise and care for her children, no matter what happens 20 years down the road when hubbie suddenly decides he’s done having a family.
No woman should “expect” to live off her husband, boyfriend, Alimony, or Child Support and having *some* income-generating skills and her own savings alleviates that problem and also takes the pressure off the spouse that she IS still with.
I don’t think that’s an irrational argument that “nobody can identify” with. I think it’s more likely that “one parent staying home indefinitely” is more likely what most people cannot relate to.
You sound like your arms might be longer than the average woman.