Are you detecting a theme to today’s posts yet?
Alternate title: “I do not think it means what you think it means.”
Via Althouse, the Rise of the Gastrosexual:
They say that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach but it seems the dining tables have turned as increasing numbers of men are taking up cooking in a bid to seduce women.
Dubbed ‘Gastrosexuals’ this new generation of men consider cooking more a hobby than a household chore and use their kitchen prowess to impress friends and prospective partners.
Men having the ability to cook is also now a key factor in attracting women along with salary, status, personality and appearance, according to new research.
When should sexuality be attributed to the performance of nonsexual tasks?
I can think of a lot of potential answers to that, but…gastrosexual? Whoever coined that term knows what “gastro” means, right? Like gastrointestinal. Gastronomical. It has to do with your digestive system, and the things that go on in there.
It’s a big world, with a lot of strange people in it, but for my money, the words “gastro” and “sexual” don’t go together.
They. Just. Don’t.
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WTF. Seriously? Why can’t it just be that cooking is fun, or that women like to be pampered every once in a while? Why do we have to make up terms? Especially creepy, no-way-should-these-two-words-even-be-in-the-same-sentence words.
Whoever came up with this has way, WAY too much time on their hands.