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In reply to the discussion: 13-Year-Old Girl Asks Easy Bake Oven To End Sexist Ads: [View all]catbyte
(34,367 posts)36. At age 6, I learned the hard way that plastic pans don't make good baking dishes when my
BF Debbie Williams and I decided to make dessert before we were called to dinner by my folks. Halfway through dinner the house began filling with the nauseating smell of burned plastic and chocolate coming from my Easy Bake Oven. Dad opened the oven door to see melted plastic & raw chocolate cake batter dripping all over the light bulb, out the door & towards the carpet. Dad was so mad he immediately unplugged the oven and cut off the plug with his pocket knife. That was the end of my culinary career until I started to bake--at age 10--my first real cake, dad's birthday cake, reading an actual recipe and using our real oven. It was a chocolate Wacky Cake, and it's still the best chocolate cake recipe on earth.
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I have noticed that almost invariably men are called "chefs", women are called "cooks".
Odin2005
Dec 2012
#39
I had a creepy crawler edible machine when I was a kid. I loved it!
Dont call me Shirley
Dec 2012
#20
Uber-pinkness can be traced to Disney and the popularity of princesses in the late 90's early 00's..
Moonwalk
Dec 2012
#59
If you expose boys to cooking, they can get a distorted idea of what a man is supposed to be.
Warren DeMontague
Dec 2012
#12
I think it's disgusting nearly everything targeted to girls is either pink or purple.
gkhouston
Dec 2012
#13
Not surprising. It can be difficult to find clothes for girls that aren't pink/purple,
gkhouston
Dec 2012
#44
I never buy the pink version of things. I actually like the color, and wear it
gkhouston
Dec 2012
#72
I remember the ads for them in the Sears catalogs with the yummy chocolate cake!
Quixote1818
Dec 2012
#19
I sewed with my mom and wanted an easy-bake oven....and turned out totally gay
DonRedwood
Dec 2012
#35
It's too bad you didn't know about all the usually male-dominated professions
kentauros
Dec 2012
#62
Good for her. My nephew likes cooking, beads, etc. and it's annoying that the
Politicub
Dec 2012
#34
At age 6, I learned the hard way that plastic pans don't make good baking dishes when my
catbyte
Dec 2012
#36
I think it is actually harder for boys then girls to blur the gender lines these days.
Jennicut
Dec 2012
#73
A friend's son was told recently that he couldn't play with something because it was pink,
LeftyMom
Dec 2012
#55
many toys for little girls are to "play" raising babies, "play" cook, even "play" keeping house
stuntcat
Dec 2012
#76
Children ARE allowed to play with any type of toy they want....your post is proof of that....
cbdo2007
Dec 2012
#106
I don't think all children are allowed. And until all are allowed there is a problem....
Little Star
Dec 2012
#108