We Don’t Want A ‘Men Make Dinner Day’. Can Men Just Lend A Helping Hand In The Kitchen Daily Instead?
It’s a beautiful sight to watch a man cook for you, isn’t it? Be it your father, brother or partner. More so because it’s a rare sight to witness. Thanks to gender roles and patriarchy, kitchens are considered to be a woman’s territory. We’ve all grown up watching men being the breadwinners and the women serving that bread. And we’ve reached a point where we don’t even blink an eyelid when we see a woman cook but when men cook, it’s glorified because not all of them do it. No wonder we appreciate a man who can cook for his partner or his family. And guess what? Every year, the first Thursday of November is celebrated as National Men Make Dinner Day. This year, it falls on November 3.
Just earlier today, I was speaking to a friend (a guy) and during the conversation, I realised that he was actually one of the few men I know who cook and I promise you, he does it well. In fact, I even pointed out the fact that I haven’t seen a man cook a meal in forever and the last time I saw a man cook, it was him a few months ago when he was in the same city as men and had me over for dinner. This man actually called me over on his birthday and cooked for me and his family as opposed to the usual trend of going out for dinner. Not to glorify it, but he’s one of the few men that actually knows a life skill like cooking.
This got me thinking, why do we have a day called the Men Make Dinner Day that is celebrated annually? Why just one day? I’m sure many of you have partners who’re cooking dinner on this Men Make Dinner Day as they struggle to find their footing in the kitchen. As much as I love celebrating this day (even though I don’t have a man who’s cooking for men tonight), I truly wish we did not have a whole day to celebrate and glorify men cooking or persuade them into cooking while we coddle them on other days. In today’s day and age, a man cooking for a woman is an act of love and care but why should it be? Women do it every day and no one glorifies their efforts, instead, it is considered to be the norm. But that’s just another can of worms for another day.
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Today, I’d like to point something out. Why have one day in a year to have men cook? We women don’t need a whole day to celebrate and have men cook for us. Instead of a National Men Make Dinner Day, we’d rather have a ‘Men Make A Meal Year’ every year. Cooking is a life skill that everyone should know but instead, we choose to ignore it due to social conditioning and fail to teach the men and boys in our lives this skill. So, this Men Make Dinner Day, we wish men could just learn cooking. And not just learn but contribute to the household by cooking daily and lending a hand to the women in their lives instead of doing it on just one day and celebrating it. It’s time to stop conforming to social norms and gender roles.
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