A Slave to My Hormones: Why Women Can't Cook!

In my Japanese Literature class this past week we were discussing the male-dominated field of cooking in restaurants and chefs despite the stereotype and gender roles of women in the kitchen. Because you would think that if women were to spend a lot of time in the kitchen and cook a lot, why are there not many female chefs?? (ah, don't you just love gender roles?)

According to my professor, (and this was not HIS way of thinking, he was just expressing other people's reasoning) the reason why there are not many female chefs is because of the idea and myth that because women have periods, their hormones and chemicals change a lot and it might affect how they taste things and will then change the taste of the food.

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WTF??? I tend to not be too radical when it comes to my feminist side (although its been healthily growing over the past year), but my inner femmenazi was about to bust out "EXCUSE ME?", but I refrained and instead just dropped my jaw in disbelief.

My professor went on to explain to us that many male chefs and chef schools believe this and tend to dismiss women as having less of a true ability to cook. We can't cook because... we what? Menstrate? Really? Are you guys THAT chauvanistic? I really couldn't believe it... I was just dumbfounded that people actually believe this. I don't know, my mom is a hell of a good cook, so fuck all you guys. So now me and my feminist friends who are in the class with me always use the excuse "its because I bleed out of my vagina" or "It's a bad chemical day for me today..." to why we can't do things.

Does Pauala Deen have to choke a bitch?