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laceblade) wrote,
@ 2012-12-26 09:02 am UTC

Entry tags:	fanfiction, media
Crossposts:	http://mystickeeper.livejournal.com/612650.html

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I'm getting really sick of girls always being perfect at cooking in both my fiction and fanfiction.

I do like stories involving cooking and comfort and whatever. Just.

Current irritants: Gokinjo Monogatari, Persona 4, this ff7 fanfiction of Cid/Tifa where Tifa comes and makes everything in Cid's life better by replacing Shera, the previous person who cooked all his meals and got verbal abused heaped on her all day. It doesn't even matter that Tifa's canonically good at cooking due to owning/running her own bar, it's just like WHY IS IT ALWAYS THE GIRLS?!

ETA:

terajk has started Multifandom/No Fandom: Impromptu Dudes Do the Cooking fest!
"Basically, this is an extremely informal fest for fic/art/podfic/fanmixes/meta/recs/whatever where dudes do the cooking! Any fandom or original work is welcome. You can also rec canons or fanworks (including self-recs), too. Any rating is welcome, also. The only rule is that, well, dudes are doing the cooking!"

Please go to that post and come play!

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	no subject terajk 2012-12-26 05:42 pm UTC (link)
	This makes me want to have a "Dudes Do the Cooking" fest or something. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

	no subject inkstone 2012-12-26 06:36 pm UTC (link)
	+1 You know I'd end up joining just so I can write about long-suffering Kagami cooking for MiraGen and how Aomine is that dude who. will. not. leave. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject laceblade 2012-12-26 08:58 pm UTC (link)
	omg I am seriously so glad you did this! I've linked to it from my Tumblr and will put an ETA into this post! (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject lileyo 2012-12-26 07:17 pm UTC (link)
	WORD. I don't think you got far enough in Persona 3 to see the character that totally sucks at cooking, but the fact that P3 and 4 both have girl characters in cooking plotlines really annoyed me. (Reply to this)

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ariad
2012-12-26 07:32 pm UTC (link)

I was going to rec some things with men good at cooking, but I honestly can't think of anything except Ratatouille, which is gourmet cooking, traditionally dominated by men, rather than domestic cooking, and Tales of Symphonia, in which everyone in your party cooks and the best cook is a man and the worst cook is a woman. But even then, I feel like there's some kind of "haha she's a woman and can't cook" joke in there. :/

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	no subject laceblade 2012-12-26 08:58 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, my example is Kurt Hummel from Glee, and that's about it. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject ein_myria 2012-12-27 01:36 am UTC (link)
	amused I don't know why that's a trope; for some of the fandoms I've been in, the women are usually pretty terrible at cooking, usually for gag effect (eg: Akane in Ranma 1/2). (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

	no subject laceblade 2012-12-28 05:11 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, that's how it was played in Persona 4, too. This still annoys me a bit because it relies on the viewer/reader's expectation that girls be good at it (and the fact they're not makes it funny), but it annoys me left when it's just part of that character's flaws (see: Rachel Berry from Glee). (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject ein_myria 2012-12-30 12:16 pm UTC (link)
	I couldn't agree with you more. :) (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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