Comments on: why am I thinking about feminism and standardized testing at the same time? http://info-fetishist.org/2007/12/31/why-am-i-thinking-about-feminism-and-standardized-testing-at-the-same-time/ yeah, it's long -- I didn't have time to make it shorter Fri, 18 May 2012 17:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: 2 Sticks of Butter http://info-fetishist.org/2007/12/31/why-am-i-thinking-about-feminism-and-standardized-testing-at-the-same-time/#comment-146 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:19:09 +0000 http://infofetishist.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/why-am-i-thinking-about-feminism-and-standardized-testing-at-the-same-time/#comment-146 Great article. Sandra claims to create meals that are practical, quick and inexpensive. But if you sit and watch her show, you quickly find out it is neither.

And no Sandra, your critics are attacking American women, THEY ARE ATTACKING YOU, dear because you have no concept of what good cooking is, but you try to pass of the dreck you make as gourmet.

]]> By: Shaun Huston http://info-fetishist.org/2007/12/31/why-am-i-thinking-about-feminism-and-standardized-testing-at-the-same-time/#comment-7 Tue, 01 Jan 2008 01:57:44 +0000 http://infofetishist.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/why-am-i-thinking-about-feminism-and-standardized-testing-at-the-same-time/#comment-7 Great entry. I can’t say, from my side, that our recent obsession with this show has been entirely motivated by the serious concerns addressed here about critical thinking, gender relations, and food, but it does seem that the “chefography” moved our discussion in these kinds of directions. I also think that it’s worth underscoring that, at some base level, the “bad thing” she wants to minimize her time and effort on is making, not just meals, drinks, and treats, but meals, drinks, and treats for people we love, who are our friends and family. As far as I can tell, the show emphasizes, in fact, “special” cooking and baking (should probably put scare quotes around that one), and not so much the daily bread. Why you would prefer to subject your closest people to, essentially, fraudulent and likely horrific versions of whatever it is you’re trying to make, rather than drafting kids, male partners, etc. to make sure the day is, in fact, special, is beyond me. Even if one wants to accept that it is, indeed, the adult woman’s responsibility in a household to take care of the cooking, the “tablescaping,” etc. why not try something simple instead of going to all sorts of elaborate measures to make store bought cake seem like your own creation? The NYTimes review seems to hit it on the head when it questions her claims about time and money saved by her “method.” Her show not only perpetuates patriarchal gender relations in the home, it also serves to mystify food, something that only works to the benefit of the agro-industrial producers of the kinds of products she seems to be pushing on the show and in her books.

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