Poll: Do you think food has a gender?

[Legion]

Except 'Barbie Fruit Snacks'. Those are.

True.
Only the manliest of men could eat those.

Also, have you checked out the new Barbie Horse Adventures?
That shit is hardcore.

Damn me and my blatant femininity, I just can't bring myself to try either of them.

He has a passion for Ancient Greece perhaps?

i c wut u did thar

Also you changed your avatar!
...Why?

I get tired of them quickly. I am tempted to go back to Dr Cox because it seemed to help people recognise me seeing how most forum members admit to remembering people by avatr rather than name.

 

[Sketchy]

Steak is a man's meal. Although, I don't like steak all that much. I prefer other food.

I'd agree with beer being male, and wine being female though.

 

[HentMas]

oh, come on, i have met a girl that eats just as i do, with all that meat and stuff

and she is the most feminine person i have ever met

mind you she ate like twice what the others ate, but is still skinny, her metabolism is outstanding

following stereotypes is not wrong, simply because they are there for a reason, Making Fun or Exagerating said stereotypes IS wrong.

 

[HentMas]

wine - Women
beer - Men
salad - Women
steak - Men
potato - Men
broccoli - Women
yogurt - Women
Diet Coke - Women
buffalo wings - Men

I think there are some gender diffs. Maybe it's just me.

Judging from this only delicious things are for men.

Once again I'm so happy owning a winkle.

Because if it tastes good, Usually it's unhealthy or fattening. But if tastes bad like broccoli. It's usually healthy or something. I'm not to keen on eating healthy. I'd rather just have meat and potatoes and beer. I can go for a meal like that right about now.

funny thought, as red wine goes with meat, i would think wine was male... (or for men)

 

[Lilani]

Nah.

 

[iJosh]

wine - Women
beer - Men
salad - Women
steak - Men
potato - Men
broccoli - Women
yogurt - Women
Diet Coke - Women
buffalo wings - Men

I think there are some gender diffs. Maybe it's just me.

Judging from this only delicious things are for men.

Once again I'm so happy owning a winkle.

Because if it tastes good, Usually it's unhealthy or fattening. But if tastes bad like broccoli. It's usually healthy or something. I'm not to keen on eating healthy. I'd rather just have meat and potatoes and beer. I can go for a meal like that right about now.

funny thought, as red wine goes with meat, i would think wine was male... (or for men)

Red wine, funny thing is that most rich, snobby, 'non-male' men drink it.

If you are a true American male, You should be drinking beer and eating a steak which fulfills the stereotype. Not being mean or anything. I just think Wine is MOSTLY a woman's drink. Also that all males should be drinking beer/rum if anything. Because it's manly. Blah blah fucking blah. If you know what I mean? There are just somethings out there that designated for males and females. I wouldn't be caught dead eating a tossed salad. I only know what it is because I am a former chef and used to cook for my job.

 

[Korolev]

In german and some other languages, yes, food (as well as almost any object) has a gender (male, female or intermediate). However, this didn't mean anything - it just stipulated what word you put in front of the noun - either das, der or one other. It was also completely random.

English doesn't have such things, to the best of my knowledge. At least, I've never come across it. Objects in english are called "it". I've never heard of anyone calling an apple "she" or "he". Countries are usually thought of as "she" as well as ships. You know, as in "she's a good vessel" and so forth.

So..... in some languages food might have a completely arbitrary and meaningless gender, but in most languages no, they do not.

Interesting question though.

 

[Inverse Skies]

I don't believe it's the food itself which has a gender, more one particular gender of human is more likely to be seen to consume that food, mostly due to cultural reasons more than anything else I guess. I can't look at a tomato and say if it's male or female... nor with that example can I say which sex is more likely to consume it. Even something like beer, traditionally seen as a more masculine drink, is now regularly being consumed by women as our society becomes more open. Perhaps one day we won't associate any food with a particular gender? I'm guessing not, because cultural habits die hard, but it's an interesting thought nonetheless.

 

[Apathetic Flamingo]

No, food does not have gender.

 

[Mr Thomsos]

I agree that some food have some qualities as gender, like as you stated life span, but gender is determend by reproductive parts. So until I see two apples fucking, then nay.

 

[Dwarfman]

Hmmm. An interesting question. As a chef I will agree that certain foods are gender stereotyped. Red meat for instance almost always is stereotyped as a 'man's meal' whilst fish and chicken a ' lady's meal'. Although I will say this isn't always the case.

Personally I believe the stereotyping is more centered towards other facets that make food in general a meal, such as portion size, method of cookery, how much certain meats are cooked and so on. And as a waiter Hyrulegaybar, I'm sure you would have noticed that such factors as age and working background also feature when stereotyping. For example and elderly couple will almost always ask for their vegetables boiled beyond recognition.

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

What? No.

Its food.

 

[hyrulegaybar]

I will always associate yogurt with femininity.

Gogurt, on the other hand...

So yogurt is somehow feminine, but sucking on a long, stiff tube is manly?

Is...is there something you want to tell us?

Dude, my name is HyruleGAYBar. That wasn't a typo or anything.

This is my line of thinking.
Might I think of a guy when someone mentions buffalo wings? Perhaps. But who cares?
If we associate a gender with a food, it's because that's how it's been marketed to us. I don't see a lot of 'Fridays' commercials were women are chomping down on wings, nor do I see a lot of 'Green Tea' or some other herbal crap where the guy is sitting back with a good book and a warm cup.
So cast off your mental, commercial conditioning comrades! Think freely! Food isn't gender specific!
Except 'Barbie Fruit Snacks'. Those are.

The way I see it, to categorize food into gender (for whatever reason) is just pointless, whether Buffalo wings are associated with guys or not is immaterial, that doesn't mean that men are most likely to eat it. I'm fairly sure in america thats what everyone lives off when theyre not in McDonald's.
As for "Barbie Fruit Snacks", peel away the packaging all you got is snacks.

I don't think that it's pointless to categorize into genders. I think it would be important for us to realize that men do have a shorter lifespan than women and suffer more heart disease and preventable diseases than women do. I think that there are a number of expected behaviors that men fall into that can explain that discrepancy, and I think that it unfortunately may include diet. If a man can feel more comfortable ordering a salad for his health so that he doesn't get a heart attack at 40, all the better.

I'm not saying that we should try to uncover this sort of thing to enforce the stereotype but rather to figure out if there even is one--and if there is, to figure out what it is--so that we can work around or with it instead putting up with it.

 

[hyrulegaybar]

I don't believe it's the food itself which has a gender, more one particular gender of human is more likely to be seen to consume that food, mostly due to cultural reasons more than anything else I guess. I can't look at a tomato and say if it's male or female... nor with that example can I say which sex is more likely to consume it. Even something like beer, traditionally seen as a more masculine drink, is now regularly being consumed by women as our society becomes more open. Perhaps one day we won't associate any food with a particular gender? I'm guessing not, because cultural habits die hard, but it's an interesting thought nonetheless.

I hope that you're wrong about cultural habits dying hard, but I suspect you're right. I'd say tomatoes are feminine though, just because their preparation is generally handled by women. Grilled and flame-broiled foods like steak, burgers, and grilled chicken breast are generally handled by men. But then that's just been my experience. I don't know too many women who barbeque though.

I agree that some food have some qualities as gender, like as you stated life span, but gender is determend by reproductive parts. So until I see two apples fucking, then nay.

Gender is a societal construct that is often associated with reproductive parts but isn't always. Gender is a much more complex issue than many of us understand, and I studied it intensively in college. There's a misconception that gender = sex, but it doesn't. It seems to in our society merely because we have two genders and two sexes, but other societies have upwards of four. I'm not even referring to linguistic gender in that case, which generally has nothing to do with gender as a sexual identity.

I just realized that this conversation is probably muddied by different uses of the term gender too. I don't mean linguistic gender, y'all. There's a difference.

 

[fuzzball]

More Women prefer beer over wine in my experience, but i live in New Mexico where beer is pretty common, Men though like hard alocohol more often though, but this is mainly with the younger ppl

 

[PurpleRain]

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I associated those foods to gender only because you asked it. Even still, as I like yogurt more then girls I know, I associated to me and not a male or female category. I also associated the vegetables with no sex class as well, neither male nor female. Wine and diet coke I associated with male.

Diet Coke? Really?? Why? I'm curious to hear.

It's obvious that Coke Light is for girls and Coke Zero is for guys.

And Pepsi Max is for everyone.

And Mountain Dew is for virgins.

I don't associate flavours to sex. I find that absurd. I associate coke and most other soft drinks to poor health choices which further goes onto thinking about the group of folk who mostly drink it (friends of mine, mostly male).