Easter Dinner Entertaining: What’s the Feminist’s Role?

For a feminist, holiday meal preparation can seem like a bit of a trap. I was reminded of this conflict after reading this article:
DivineCaroline :: Thanksgiving and Feminism: War in the Kitchen

If you celebrate Easter by a having Easter dinner, how do you and your family divide up the cooking and cleaning for the meal? Does it end up being the women in the kitchen, or Is it a family event?

Oh boy, Femi-Nazis.

My family usually just cooks. My dad will make something, my mother will make something, my grandmother will make something, simple as that. It's not as though the "who wants to make the mashed potatoes?" discussion is some life affair.

How stupid. The feminazies feel persecuted for cooking. Guess what, in most households, only the woman knows how to actually cook.

Sure, a man can help, but honestly, feminists should stop complaining about any work they have to do.

Hmm, I'd say that a lot of feminists can get waaaay over the top about the home role, as if it's degrading or demeaning in some way. :/ NeoLink is right in the aspect that in a lot of households, only the women or the majority of women actually know how to cook, but then men can give a hand and help. Whenever or not they'll help is another question altogether.

We don't really do anything for Easter apart from the usual weekend roast, but my mother does most of the cooking and I'll help her out and do the cleaning every so often. If she's sick or unavailable, then my father'll do it instead. He works most of the time anyway, but a couple of years ago for Christmas, it was he who did most of the cooking as he wasn't working at that time, while my mother was, and it would have been ridiculous to expect her to work and to cook and to clean and to entertain the kids during the big day, so he took over the kitchen in her stead and made our Christmas dinner for us all while my brother and I (kids at the time) cleaned up after.

Sure, a lot of women do the lion's share of the work in the household, but it isn't a sex war, for Christ's sake, it's just looking after the family and providing for them. Either way, it's still nice for others to chip in and give a hand to make it a family event, even if us women can handle it well enough most of the time. XD

But the extreme feminazis can just shut up about persecution, I'd say. I'd bet them being a working housewife during the 1950's would blow their minds!!!

In my family, at least, everyone participates in the preparation and/or cleaning up of meals, so this sort of conflict never arises.

Of course, my family is about as far from "traditional southern" (from the article) as you can get, so I suppose that could factor into it.

Um, my family's all girls. My mom and aunts do the cooking, my uncles buy everything and do the cleaning up afterwards. We all sit on our fat butts in front of the TV watching football for at least two hours. :3

It's a good system, methinks.

Despite the fact it is clearly the woman's role to cook the meal, the men do, due to the fact our cooking is quite superior.

We generally go to visit my 85-year old grandpa at his retirement home, because it's the supposedly the last Easter we'll have with him, and then we are pressured into eating with him at the cafeteria there. The management knows there are visitors on the holidays, and so they try to fancy things up and make decent food, but everything either lacks salt (the entrees) or sugar (the desserts.) They also tend to stick random other vegetables in the mashed potatoes, like artichokes. <_<

We go there for both Thanksgiving and Easter, so the question of who cooks has never really been an issue. On Christmas when we do entertain, however, both my parents usually try to share the task, but my mom might do most of the work because she's just overall a better cook.

What is the feminist's role?

To quit whining, and get back in the kitchen and make me a sandwich.

You women should count yourselves lucky! My sister has the role of doing the cooking and she is 11.

Cooking should be distributed EVENLY among the family...Boys and girls should learn that its a shared responsibility! Loved the article too!

Originally Posted by Mirror Image

Despite the fact it is clearly the woman's role to cook the meal, the men do, due to the fact our cooking is quite superior.

Sadly, this is true in most cases. Italian men are generally better cooks than the women. I'm not be sarcastic. It's just the way things work.

I've become an excellent cook. Little by little, I've learned to experiment. I still cook like a bachelor, but my meals are better than takeout, generally ;0)

For Thanksgiving, I made the turkey and a couple other things, and the rest of the family (I have 4 sisters...so sue me) made other stuff.

For the turkey, I did something I doubt anyone else would have thought of... I didn't have celery/carrots/onions/&tc. to put in the turkey to keep it moist and flavorful....so... I stuck a couple apples up its butt and tossed in a cup or two of apple juice, to boot ;0) [next year I think I'll try just applesauce]

The turkey was the most moist bird I've ever had. And it had tons of flavor! I didn't tell anyone what I had done until they had all remarked on its moistness and flavorosity (yes...made up word).

I enjoy cooking. Not as much as some, but when you know your food is going to be enjoyed, it's a pleasure.

On thanks giving, the person who ate the most does all the cleaning up.
The cooking rotates. My turn in 2 years. D=

haha, that's an ingenius way of doing things ;0) How do you measure, or is it obvious who the glutton is? :0P

Originally Posted by LizHobart

Cooking should be distributed EVENLY among the family...Boys and girls should learn that its a shared responsibility! Loved the article too!

Please don't revive old threads.

*locks*

-BGS