Why do many men expect women to know how to cook but not men?

[Nadim171]

First, I think everyone should know the basics, it's a basic surviving skill. However many men, even on this site ask questions like:"why can't women cook anymore"etc... but... why can't you cook instead? In fact, most famous chefs are men, it isn't gender related. I'd prefer to be the one who cooks for my future wife.

[MzAsh]

Yeah if a guy expects a woman to cook but not him then forget it. I don’t tolerate double standards.

I’ve always preferred and equal amount of cooking between him and myself.

I don’t like cooking but I get enough of the job done to eat decently. Although I still opt for takeout more than I should.

I work off the extra cals though.

[Nadim171]

I like cooking, so it's never really work

[MzAsh]

That’s awesome then!

[Nadim171]

Yep! I mean it's a pleasure, especially if I'm cooking for my girl

[Babygirl_S]

You're awesome. We need more men like you ❣

[Nadim171]

Aww thanks!❤

[Babygirl_S]

Thanks for the MHO 🙂

[wankiam]

because you live in egypt? i think here in the uk many men have lived on their own for a while since leaving home so have to learn to look after themselves rather than going straight from mother to wife and having them do everything

[Nadim171]

Well, I didn't mention a specific country. But I also so men from America and other western countries saying the same on here

[wankiam]

yes but you would find just as many western men saying the exact oposite too

[Nadim171]

Yes, I was talking to those who don't

[wankiam]

and im sure they will be along soon as all the americans get out of bed but in the meantime if you ask an opinion you have to recognise the fact others may differ to your own

[MrOracle]

I can't understand how ANY adult can reach adulthood without learning such basic life skills as cooking, cleaning, laundry, simple household repairs, and basic first aid.

There are very few (adult) people who have a legitimate excuse not to be able to cook some basic meals.

[RickPen]

I have experienced the opposite. Only one girlfriend I've had is skilled in cooking. I was the cook in all other relationships.

I never expected them to know how to cook, but enjoyed not having to be the only one cooking our food. One was bad. She served pan browned rice. Burnt in a pan, not in water, so it was essentially black raw rice.

[Miss_New_Booty]

My hubby & I have such different work schedules that we hardly ever eat meals together. So it’s really pointless to expect one of us to do all the cooking. He’s also a really picky eater & there’s hardly any food that I despise. It’s better for both of us to just cook our meals separately ourselves.

Then whenever we have free time together? We go out to eat or order in as date night!

[2os4ngeles]

I think it's a really overrated skill in an age of ready meals, restaurants and fastfood joints everywhere, etc. Sure, home-cooked food is healthier and tastes better, but it's kind of like being good at drawing in an age of photography.

[Bensbrie]

Artist here to stop you right there mister! I assure you, all art mediums are alive and well. Including traditional art (painting, drawing, etc) Thank you and have a safe day.

[Nadim171]

Well, if everyone doesn't know how to cook there would be no restaurants or fast food either

[2os4ngeles]

@Bensbrie Sure, lots of people draw for their own amusement, or to entertain others. But it's not like drawings are an essential way to convey visual information, apart from maybe courtroom sketches.

[2os4ngeles]

True, but lots of that stuff will get automated over time.

[Bensbrie]

Art is an essential part of history and culture, so yes it is important. And millions upon millions believe so world wide. Thank you. So civilizations are remembered because of the art (sculptures and architecture) that is left behind as well as written art (stories and pictures). Say what you like, but art is an essential part of civilization

[2os4ngeles]

@Bensbrie Sure it's important, but it's not essential.

[Bensbrie]

Whatever you say honey bunch

[2os4ngeles]

@Bensbrie Cheers :)

[John_Doesnt]

It seems like a stupid assumption especially when the best chefs in the world are mostly men. Try telling Gordon Ramsey that cooking is for women.

[sexyasianboi26]

I am politically incorrect. What else can a girl bring to my table other than being my object of sexual pleasure?

Some guys will wife up a girl that brings nothing to the table. That’s fine by me, whatever floats in his boat.

I’m just saying, if a girl is a 49’er (she’s a 4 but she thinks she’s a 9), she better know how to cook.

[SexyAshh]

Hmmm, actually in the US its opposite

Men always are the ones that cook, and us woman are all known to not know😄

[raverae]

Because cooking was a womans job. Men would work and bring home food for the woman to make.

Today though, everyone should cook

[evansmal]

What I find super ironic is the men that think they shouldn't know how to cook and their wives will do it for them will likely be the men without wives.

[OlderAndWiser]

I can cook better than most women and I don't mind cooking for 20-30 people at Thanksgiving and Christmas.

[Edanurus]

I can cook very well, the majority of my friends in relationships are the ones who cook and the majority of my girlfriends have been mediocre cooks at best.
What I'm saying is you're not special that you can cook.

In all fairness from what I've seen from your other post this is just a manifestation of your submissive kink nothing to do with men as a whole.

[Cryostatic]

I do all the cooking.

Because I'm better at it.

[LuWe22]

I agree. Everyone should know how to vook. Maybe these men wish for a women that cook for them without lifting a finger themself. Me and my boyfriend always cook together

[hellionthesagereborn]

For the same reason why women expect men to pay for dates and not women. For the same reason women expect men to be the providers not women.

[Anonymous]

Yes u are totally right the men have 2 hands like us.. so why they can't cook!

[NorthwestRider]

Silly pink anon, I do the cooking in my relationship

[grega239]

Do you know how to change the headlights of a car?

[Shy_Steve]

We think that you would of spent a lot more time with your Mum rather than your Dad when growing up so we thought you could have picked something up from her.

[HBIC_02]

I think that both men and women should be able to cook. It isn't fair if the wife or the husband expects the other one to cook every night.

[broncobryan]

At 14 I'm sure you can only cook ramen. Stfu and quit asking stupid questions.

[Nadim171]

I can cook more than that, but I'm learning, I'm defenatley not a pro.

I can't see how this is stupid

[broncobryan]

It's stupid because in today's society men and women both cook. This isn't the 1950s or the 60s. Its 2019.

[Rianov]

Wow you sound like an asshole. You couldn't do something so no one could? I was learning to cook at 8 and when i was in middle school and high school pretty much everyone i knew knew at least the basics of cooking.

[Games_]

Because its portrayed that way in media, I dont see what's wrong with it anyway.

[Anonymous]

Men do not expect women to know how to cook. They wish women knew how to cook, but the sad fact is that today there are very, very few women who know how to do anything more than boil water.

[Bensbrie]

And out of over 3 billion women in the world only a few know how to cook? Wow, where are you getting your facts, because this is the first I've heard of this. Wow, so all the women in my hometown and all other women I know who know how to cook, which is easily in the triple digits because most women I know can cook, and I know a lot of people, they must have been buying it ready made all these years. And the dinner I cooked last night, must be just water, right?

[Opinion Owner]

@Bensbrie Wow, where do you live? Please let all of us men know so we can go there and find one of these many women you say know how to cook. Please! Because in my experience, and every other guy I know, most women today know how to go through a drive-thru or pick up a to-go order, or how heat some water and open a box of mac n' cheese, but that is all.

So, is that what you mean when you say women know how to cook? Making a PB & J sandwich? Because aside from my mother, I do not know a single woman who can make a decent lasagna or ossobuco like I can, or anything else that has more than 4 ingredients in it.

So, please do tell where you live, where this last bastion of female culinary skills survives untouched by the current trend of women who think cooking is some demeaning thing that only oppressed women allow themselves to tolerate. I'll wait...

[Bensbrie]

I live in Mississippi sir. And no, the women here know how to cook, yeah I picked up on the sarcasm in your text. Cook red beans and rice, corn bread, baked or fried chicken, hamburgers, green beans, corn, and so much more. Southern women are good cooks thank you very much. My bread pudding and tres leches cake is stinking delicious! Just because women dont cook where you are from doesn't mean women dont cook at all, there are billions of women and not all of them live at mcdonalds.

[Bensbrie]

And who in Saint Sansiba ever said women are oppressed? I live a pretty fine life even if I have to work and go to university. I'm the one who does more work if its between me and my husband. He says my food is the best! I make good parmesan pasta as well and when he gets a job and I'm done with school hopefully I can stay home for a while and cook and clean, which can be fun when its your own home.

[Opinion Owner]

@Bensbrie OMG, you sound amazing. Will you divorce your husband and marry me? Kidding. Your husband is a lucky man. I should have guessed that you live in the South. Just FYI, elsewhere in the US women are not as capable cooks as you.

[Bensbrie]

Just like I dont like to judge all men based on what certain men do, I'm not going to judge all women either. I don't think it's fair to say all men are predators, cause it's not true, even though most sexual predators have been men (even men are molested by men more often when they are young, even though women can certainly be predators as well, it all depends) just like I dont assume all men can change a tire (my husband cant) I dont assume all women dont or can't cook. It always depends. There are a bunch of women who dont know how to cook because no one was there to teach them, women used to teach their daughters this basic and important skill more often. Just like men used to teach their sons certain things. Many men used to teach their sons to be gentlemen and women would teach their daughters to be more lady like. Times change and not always for the better.

[Opinion Owner]

@Bensbrie I agree with all of that, and I stand by everything I've said here.

[Bensbrie]

Okay, cool

[knewbie]

Men are expected to grill outside traditionally, plus work, war, home repairs /defense... etc
Women traditionally liked cooking to care for their family's well-being.

[Iron_Man]

We cook outside on the grill and they're supposed to cook inside

[Codywow]

I expect everyone to be able to cook to some degree

[Chadnelson1973]

A lot of men do cook and know how to cook. Most Cooks in restaurants are men

[Kiran_Yagami]

Probably because their mothers knew how to cook. Simplest answers are always the most likely.

[grega239]

Probably for the same reason women expect men to know how to use tools and fix things

[esotericstory]

In my country food is important and both men and women are expected to know how to make good food.

[ChronicThinker]

Ignorance, mostly.

[NorthwestRider]

Only sexist backwards men expect that

[Smittydidit]

Taught to cook as soon as I was tall enouph to seethe water boil.

[TyPilot]

It's kind of Sexist, honestly...

[UncleBumbleF_K]

Men don't care about men.

[jimreyn]

Because thwy are selfish

[COMMODOREII]

They are assholes.

[MrBurke]

Women can cook?