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I will never understand how anyone could come to thinking aspic was a good idea.
Kraft Heinz (makers of JELL-O) propaganda.
Literally, the reason food went to shit in the '50s was because that’s when all the shelf-stable and processed “convenience foods” that had been invented for WWII started getting heavily marketed to the public.
I mean… you have to imagine a world without refrigeration. Now it’s ubiquitous, we have it everywhere, you can even get portable battery-powered refrigeration boxes. But at the time, cold meant icebox… literally a box that you put a big block of ice in to keep other stuff cold.
You say “food went to shit” but all those things were a real change to the previous millennia of salted meats and pickled vegetables because there was no other way to keep food edible until the next harvest. It was new and interesting.
It was also tied up in modernist space-age utopian ideals about freeing housewives from drudgery and whatnot, and from that perspective, it wasn’t a bad thing.
But in retrospect (especially 2020s retrospect, seeing how corporations coopt and enshittify everything), the extent to which it was driven by cynical, gimmicky marketing is pretty darn repulsive. Think about how we have an entire generational set of “traditions” that are basically fake, invented by marketers:
- green bean casserole became a thing to sell Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom Soup and French’s Crispy Fried Onions.
- Betty Crocker was never a real person, but rather the persona of General Mills’ marketing department.
- Fuckin’ Santa Claus as we picture him in the US is basically a genericized Coca-Cola trademark.
Basically, every recipe from the '50s, if it says “one can of X” or “one box of Y” instead of having proper quantity measurements, was created as a ploy to sell those convenience foods and there’s something deeply cynical about that.
I dunno, maybe I just find it extra eerie because I understand it as the harbinger of the new gilded-age cyberpunk dystopia that we’ve created since then.
There was that tweet from a few years ago about how so many old ladies on their death bed would confess to killing their husbands.
I’m starting to piece it all together.
Accidental home deaths plummet when divorce rates rise.
I mean even just from a totally innocent position, I’m exhausted right now and in the past month I’ve almost died falling down the stairs 5 times from the sleep deprivation (the ER is getting sick of my clumsiness)
I know I’ll sleep better once my cohabitation separation is finalised.
This morning I brushed my teeth with my partner’s athletes foot ointment. Didn’t even realise it tasted like ass and felt like wax until I was trying to spit it out and wondering why it was clinging to my teeth. I’m just not human anymore, I am physically and mentally burnt out carrying the entire cognitive and household labour load of the relationship for the last 10 years.
Based on the last sentence, it’ll get better. Just don’t beat yourself up if you’re not who you were before. A decade is a long time.
Wait, seriously? Do you have a source? Sounds like one of those spurious correlations to me.
You’ll be hard pressed to find causation unless you find a gaggle of grandmas confessing.
There’s a lot of herbology lore and stories. Maybe it’s all made up. But even today we find people poisoning their spouses and everyone’s reaction is always “why not just leave?”. So extrapolate that out and it seems reasonable.
I kind of feel like if I had enough wits about me, I would confess to a bunch of random shit on my deathbed just to go out on a positive note.
When you’re not legally permitted to divorce, other means become necessary.
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No no no, we get to eat the tacos in the kitchen while we wait for the jello to set.
I’m a stay at home wife, I make sure my husband has a homecooked meal that I slaved over for hours! Like corned beef in aspic with celery jello salad.
Oops I didn’t make enough for myself, that’s okay I already had a taco as a snack, and my husband works so hard all day to support my life here in this kitchen so he deserves the whole bowl of jello to himself.
While he’s eating I’ll just add some things to the shopping list, we need more marichino cherries, and we’re out of rat poison.
I’m far from a traditionalist, and I know this is fake and a joke, but I’m bored on my lunch break, so I’m just gonna point out how I find it funny that you agreed to marry someone with different values than yourself, agreed to remain unemployed instead of finding childcare (if you can) or are blaming America’s childcare crisis (of which there is one, in case anyone was unaware) on your spouse, and live completely off your husband’s dime, and the poor sap can’t even get spared a taco that he bought all the ingredients for.
I’d like to tell you about a wonderful new invention, they call it “divorce.” Quit blaming everyone else for all your problems and leave, hell just “go out for a pack of smokes” and vanish into the night if you want, or take the gun he must be holding to your head and say “now you stay home and cook, I’m breadwinner now” and that’s awesome, I wish I could find me one of those myself, I’ll cook that woman some damn good meals and pack her lunch with a note and a goddamn kiss every morning, but you are the architect of your own misfortune and have the power to change your destiny in this situation.
That is all, back to joking lol I gotta clock back in now.
Why are women like that?
Angry about losing rights? Must be biological or something
Like what?
Vindictive
I would say women are revengeful.
Vindictive is an “unreasonable” desire for revenge, and what makes the desire “unreasonable” is going to depend on every individual situation, so I don’t think you can generalise that women are vindictive.
I would also hesitate to use the term “vengeful” too, due the nuance of vengeful being a perceived injustice over revengeful being for a known injustice. Again that’s always going to depend on the specific situation and context of what has happened.
When you look at being revengeful through a broader lens, I disagree that women are more prone to revengefulness or vindictiveness than men, I think the ways women express their revenge is gender-specific and can draw more attention to itself than masculine approaches to revenge.
So I think it’s fair to generalise that people in general have the capacity to feel revengeful, and as a marginalised class women are often revengeful, and as additional minor injustices are compounded on systemic injustice, the revenge of women is perceived as vindictiveness.
But that doesn’t mean women are vindictive.
Appreciate the nuanced response, but as far as I can tell, “vindictive” is just a synonym for “vengeful”.
Literally, it’s in the definition:
That’s interesting to see that the words are considered pure synonyms by that reference source.
I’ve always used Oxford or Cambridge for my definitions,
having or showing a wish to harm someone because you think that they harmed you; unwilling to forgive
expressing a strong wish to punish someone who has harmed you or your family or friends:
While both vindictive and vengeful are synonyms of revengeful, Cambridge notes that there are different tonal applications (vindictive is a disproving synonym)
So I guess at the end of the day whether you think women are vindictive depends on your definition of vindictive. I can’t break away from the definition I’ve always known, that vindictive is revenge for a perceived injustice and is a disproving judgement. Therefore I don’t think women as a whole are vindictive because I don’t think the injustice is perceived, it’s real and tangible.
Vitamins AND protein, WITH dessert?
Sign me the fuck up
Yea, cause cooking for your family is so oppressive.
Being forced to have a family and to have the specific role of cooking for them based on your gender is yes.
No one is forcing anyone to have family lol
Oh I must’ve been mistaken, I was under the impression that several states have banned abortion
I was under the impression that having sex was a choice? By both parties? Taking birth control or vasectomies? If you don’t want a kid, take the appropriate precautions or be abstinent. It’s not a hard concept to grasp that the main function of sex is to reproduce lol especially since 95% of abortions are elective.
Do I agree that it should be banned? No.
Do I think it’s not a priority because 95% of it is elective? Yes.
