Why do I always hear "my woman has to know how to cook" from this board to all over YouTube etc?
I've only had one live-in girlfriend and she was an exercise physiologist and we used to bulk cook boring meal prep food together it wasn't even an issue. With other girls who have told me they can't cook I've gone to their places and taught them how to cook basic shit as a date. It's fun, you get to hand feed her bits of food and crack jokes, and you teach her how to make your favourite food so she makes it when you come over.
Do you guys just not enjoy cooking? Or is it just an American thing because fast food is cheaper?
I just want a homecooked meal. I haven't had a nice homecooked meal since I left my parent's house 4 years ago.
Dylan Moore
The division of labor makes sense if you’re supporting her financially. It’s manchild tier if she’s working as much as you are, though.
Cooper Williams
It's often a proxy for many personality traits and what kind of upbringing she received and that usually comes with other homemaking skills. Many women who can't cook are that way because they rejected (or their single mother) traditional gender roles or just can'tgenerally take care of themselves. Those who were raised that way are sometimes receptive to learning and not always a lost cause but if a girl that can't cook that's always a red flag.
Austin Thompson
It's a litmus test.
Once a child is born, the single best source of food for that child is the mother''s breast. If she doesn't take to the idea of continuing to provide nourishing meals for her own children after weening, she's not really mother/wife material. If she DOES like that idea, but doesn't even attempt at any point to begin to learn to cook on her own, she's just supremely lazy, or has a priority set that puts it totally out of her schedule, and not really mother/wife material.
I can cook, but if a girl can't cook better than me she's not really a good option.
>Or is it just an American thing because fast food is cheaper? Fast food is more expensive than cooking.
Dylan Murphy
I see it mostly as a symbol. Modern "women" REFUSE to cook so they don't conform to gender standards. Those that do always tend to be more right wing and traditional. It's not cooking itself but rather the characteristics which lead you to cook. Imo at least.
its a popular sentiment in japan too, seems to be from people who care more about superficial traits of a relationship rather than forming a deep connection with someone
Angel Ross
If she wasn't able to learn the same basic stuff I learned when I was 7 I'm not interested. I'm not anyone's cheff, provider or bodyguard.
Robert Jenkins
I understand the psychological aspect when you explain it like that, but a lot of people just don't learn things if they never learned as a child. That's sad that women in Italy refuse to cook, I like Italian food as a cheat meal. I don't really see Australians as having any traditional food we kinda just eat whatever, but I've yet to meet a girl who was ideologically opposed to cooking.
