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So I was driving this weekend and listening to NPR, and this woman comes on complaining there are too many Male celebrity chefs and not enough women!?
WTF?!
The host simply let her rat on about how the Chef industry has too many featured male chefs!
The only think I can think of is to say GO LOOK AT THE CULINARY ACADEMYS!!!!
See how many MEN there are vs WOMEN enrolling!
But no, of course THAT tidbit of information was omitted.
GOD FORBID that you actually make a fair case when you can simply bash men over the head!!!
Does this person even realize or even take one SECOND to think what a man has to go though to become a chef? the ridicule!?
When Bobby flay, or Alton Brown, or me!
A MAN going into cooking is NOT very manly. and there is scorn and ridicule a plenty!
I actually wanted to pursue a cooking career, but my mom of all people told me to stop taking cooking classes when i moved back to her while I was in high school.
This woman was complaining that the top 10 NEW chefs were somehow "unfairly" male 9:1.
I was screaming at the radio that there is a good chance that it's because the number of men v women enrolling (and passing with fling colors) is that ratio!!!
But no... men are bastards!
Now, at 35, im looking at a failed IT career, and really wishing i'd been allowed to pursue my cooking. I'm good at it, and I enjoy it.
I still can, if I drop everything and go into culinary school.
of course that would mean another 20-50k on education, in a field that doesn't pay that much, even when you are top educated.
And as it stands, right now, I can make you a cookie that will trigger a minor orgasm.
One last thing. What pissed me off the most about the interview, was when the interviewer DID bring up food network, it was completely brushed aside, as if it wasn't important.
She ignored that Cat Cora is an Iron Chef, that nearly all the Iron Chefs have one woman, and one man, as their Sous chefs , that Anne (help... something) is one of the top stars on food network right now. Having won BOTH Worst cook competitions, and the chopped all-stars, against her former co-host robert... something. That he was complaining that she KEEP beating him!
So im sorry, where are all the women chefs? And this person didnt even bring up the SINGLE MOST FAMOUS CHEF OD ALL TIME.... Julia Childs! The woman who INVENTED this entire industry to begin with!
what a sexist bastard!
sorry. i just had to get that out of my system.
Im so sick about hearing about how men are so evil and bad and all that bullshit!
Cooking, no matter what, is an area where men get very little respect for being good at it.
We get shit from both other men and women for preferring to cook for a living.
and this person just really got my goat.
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