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December 08, 2005
Bizarre
Tell you what, I'm a fairly adventurous grocery shopper, but even I've never traded the last remaining turkey for a hairy coconut. Here's the question: why does Focus on the Family think men are idiots?
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Another question: if men are such idiots, why is not OK for women to be in charge?
Posted by: Stacy | Dec 8, 2005 6:28:26 PM
Gamesmanship ? It seems someone thinks male empowerment threatens families. Truth be told, lack of motivation is a lot worse. Even so, the Superparent costume pinches no matter who tries to wear it. Marriage is legally a type of partnership. There should be a reason.
Posted by: opit | Dec 8, 2005 7:04:18 PM
I'm having trouble phrasing this well, but it seems to me that FotF's thing is just the flip side to some of the posts that have been appearing on the blogosphere lately (here, Bitch PhD, Pandagon, etc) about the whole "glass ceiling is at home" thing.
In other words, it's reinforcing the woman = doer of all domestic chores meme.
Posted by: fiat lux | Dec 8, 2005 8:19:27 PM
Sometimes I hear a stereotype that simply never occurred to me. I never thought that men were more adventurous, unpredictable shoppers than women. Don't get me wrong: I'm not saying that I know about this stereotype, and am too enlightened and progressive and blah blah to actually hold it. I'm saying that this completely came out of the blue to me (something similar happened when Matthew Yglesias said women aren't as funny as men. I wasn't aware that that one was a stereotype either.).
Posted by: Julian Elson | Dec 8, 2005 8:55:40 PM
I never thought that men were more adventurous, unpredictable shoppers than women.
I know this stereotype, although "adventurous" is not the way it's meant; the idea is that men aren't used to food shopping, in particular, and so when they are sent to a grocery store with a list, they get overstimulated and distracted by all the possibilities -- what are all these brightly colored packages? -- and return without the items on the list, and with odd spices that are of no use.
(I will admit that the particular examples of "interesting" foods -- dried fish? really? -- don't ring true for me.)
Posted by: DonBoy | Dec 8, 2005 10:20:59 PM
It is an interesting stereotype they're working on. The typical stereotype of men in the grocery store was done so well in the Hardees add with the guy staring at the wall of bread and finally giving up and leaving: "Without Hardees, some guys would starve."
But this is something else. Artichoke hearts? This is a swipe at liberal elitism. Look at that list of foods. That's not the stuff a FoF man brings home from the Walmart Super Center. That's the stuff a pansy, liberal intellectual brings home from the healthfood store.
I don't know how it works in the article. I'm thinking they screwed up and mixed up their stereotypes...thekeez
Posted by: Jeff Keezel | Dec 9, 2005 11:42:36 AM
