Did you eat any cupcakes over holidays? If you are male, did you realize/apologize this is sexist appropriation?

Postfeminist Domesticity Major wrote:

Prof Irina Michalache (Toronto) wrote: Cupcakes are "both a feminist statement and proof of postfeminist domesticity."

Seems that the versatility and rather loose historical associations of cupcakes have allowed for its appropriation by a most unexpected population (men).

See Of Men and Cupcakes: Baking Identities on Food Network, Chapter 8 in How Canadians Communicate VI: Food Promotion, Consumption, and Controversy, Athabasca University Press, 2016.

My mom is a feminist and started reading Ms. Magazibes in the 70s which my dad said was the reason for their failed marriage. He beleived she should do housework that she didnt have time for as a schoolteacher, and she loaded the kids with homework that took many hours grading. My dad had a stay at home business as a photographer and beleived in the old ideals of a woman doing all the cooking cleaning and left s completely messy house when she came home. My mom never mentioned cupcakes, and we never ate them except on Christmas maybe or if my sister (who became interested in cooking in high school) decided to make them.

I thought it had to do with making cupcakes (a sole domain of the female), rather than eating them (which is for everyone).

So I think you are overthinking it and no we did not associate any value (or meaning) witj cupcakes except a nice thing to eat - if you had time to make it and most likely my mom did not and my dad would not make them so no we did not eat cupcakes when I was a kid in the 70s snd 80s. No joke - we lived even without a TV. My dad threw our first black and white TV down the cellar stairs (when I was a baby) after my dad got in an heated arguement with my step brother over what show to watch. We never had a TV again and me and my sister grew up without one. We where not concerned about liberalism, feminism etc just fitting in at school which was very difficult without a TV.

Versatile historicity wrote:

I thought it had to do with making cupcakes (a sole domain of the female), rather than eating them (which is for everyone).

Already in caveman times, the men would hunt the cupcakes, and bring them home to the women to cook them, and then the kids would eat them all.

Just like in old times wrote:

Versatile historicity wrote:

I thought it had to do with making cupcakes (a sole domain of the female), rather than eating them (which is for everyone).

Already in caveman times, the men would hunt the cupcakes, and bring them home to the women to cook them, and then the kids would eat them all.

However my stepbrother Ricky loved to cook and he baked donuts for dunkin donuts in the early 80s. He collected many cartons of old donuts and fed them to his pigs which got fat. My brother was not smart enough to br anything other than a simple cook (not chef) and if they wanted cupcakes he would have made them. I had carvels ice cream cake for my birthday (no other cake would suffice) and had some great cakes. A fellow farmer made some cakes (not cupcakes - real cakes) which were artistic pieces of work. I still have a few pictures and yearn for those days when life was simple and people had time to cook. When I think of fine cooking I think of Rattatoille. That was a great movie, arguably the best movie Pixar ever made.

I was a catcher so I always wore a cupcaked with my ball sweat. How is that sexist?

Postfeminist Domesticity Major wrote:

Prof Irina Michalache (Toronto) wrote: Cupcakes are "both a feminist statement and proof of postfeminist domesticity."

Seems that the versatility and rather loose historical associations of cupcakes have allowed for its appropriation by a most unexpected population (men).

See Of Men and Cupcakes: Baking Identities on Food Network, Chapter 8 in How Canadians Communicate VI: Food Promotion, Consumption, and Controversy, Athabasca University Press, 2016.

Canadians communicate with cupcakes??

Only women, children and gays eat cupcakes.

I ate out a couple of feminist cupcakes over the holidays. Neither of them had any complaints.

Cupcake recipes are also predominantly written in English, allowing them more easily to exploit variations from around the world.

1) No.

2) No.