Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My husband has a very narrow definition of a proper dinner - must be a hot meal consisting of a meat, starch, and veg. I prefer to eat lighter in the evening and would have “girl dinner” every night if it were up to me. We both cook.

I'm a woman who enjoys the charcuterie-type dinners, but I admit I share some of the stereotypically "male" attitudes toward food that your husband does. For instance - I don't think that a "bowl" is dinner. Rice bowls, Buddha bowls, poke bowls etc, - to me those are lunches, not evening meals. If I'm going go actually cook - I want the separate components as you note - doesn't have to include a protein, necessarily - could be a vegetarian pasta and salad - but I want the two items as opposed to a vegetarian "bowl."

NP. Hang on a sec. You don’t consider a bowl with rice with protein and vegetables piled on top to be a real dinner?

Anonymous wrote:My husband has a very narrow definition of a proper dinner - must be a hot meal consisting of a meat, starch, and veg. I prefer to eat lighter in the evening and would have “girl dinner” every night if it were up to me. We both cook.

I'm a woman who enjoys the charcuterie-type dinners, but I admit I share some of the stereotypically "male" attitudes toward food that your husband does. For instance - I don't think that a "bowl" is dinner. Rice bowls, Buddha bowls, poke bowls etc, - to me those are lunches, not evening meals. If I'm going go actually cook - I want the separate components as you note - doesn't have to include a protein, necessarily - could be a vegetarian pasta and salad - but I want the two items as opposed to a vegetarian "bowl."

My husband has a very narrow definition of a proper dinner - must be a hot meal consisting of a meat, starch, and veg. I prefer to eat lighter in the evening and would have “girl dinner” every night if it were up to me. We both cook.

Anonymous wrote:I don't know if this has to be gendered, but in my experience it is. The men in my life need full "dinner" dinners to be satisfied. I, on the other hand, love a "girl" dinner (basically a charcuterie and cheese board, right?) and would eat that way all the time if not for the need to meet my husband's old-fashioned ideas of what is a real dinner

Not in my house. My DH is the biggest fan of "snack dinners," which is what we call them.

We = women, as in adult human females who bear the primary responsibility for reproducing. I didn't personally fight the fight to be called a woman instead of a girl, but I sure as hell appreciate those who did (yes, including both of my grandmothers).

If you are okay being called a "girl," you are okay being infantilized and marginalized. If you are a "girl," it's easier to take away your rights. The term is not fun and flirty. It's demeaning.

Or perhaps you are young enough and haven't lived enough life to understand that discrimination against women still exists. Come back and post after you have had a high profile case taken away and given to a male colleague with a stay at home wife, or have been the only woman in a room full of men and have to talk twice as loud and be twice as aggressive to be heard, or been cornered in an elevator by an older male colleague.

Adulting comes whether you are tired or not.

Anonymous wrote:I don't know if this has to be gendered, but in my experience it is. The men in my life need full "dinner" dinners to be satisfied. I, on the other hand, love a "girl" dinner (basically a charcuterie and cheese board, right?) and would eat that way all the time if not for the need to meet my husband's old-fashioned ideas of what is a real dinner

Youngest leaves for college soon and I have warned by spouse that I'm not going to be providing Proper Dinners any longer. I think he thinks I'm kidding.

I don't know if this has to be gendered, but in my experience it is. The men in my life need full "dinner" dinners to be satisfied. I, on the other hand, love a "girl" dinner (basically a charcuterie and cheese board, right?) and would eat that way all the time if not for the need to meet my husband's old-fashioned ideas of what is a real dinner

Microwave a potato (baked, sort of), top with microwaved creamed spinach or buttered broccoli. Yum!

I call this snack dinner. Throw all of this on a cookie sheet and tell the kids it’s special. They’re young enough to believe me. I refuse to call it girl dinner, though. My boys love it!

We call this “snack dinner” at house. Or sometimes charcuterie dinner when we’re feeling fancy (and have special cheese and cured meats).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just wanted to add that it is completely annoying that this is called a "girl dinner." Call me a salty old feminist, but didn't we fight to be called women, not girls? Also, eat some real food and quit disguising disordered eating as a lifestyle choice. Also, why is everything $%#&^% gendered? JFC.

Gen z girls don’t want to be dried up militant old feminists

This Mama Dom ain't dry

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m so glad I’m of the generation that talks this way:

“I think the concept of girl dinner came to me while I was on a hot girl walk with another female friend of mine,” Ms. Maher, 28, said from her apartment in Los Angeles.

Barf.

I need to know what a "hot girl walk" is!

“The Hot Girl Walk is a four-mile outdoor walk where you can only think about three things: things you’re grateful for, your goals and how you want to achieve them and how hot you are,” says Mia Lind, the TikTok content creator and creator of the Hot Girl Walk.

Hot Yoga, but for frugal fatties.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m so glad I’m of the generation that talks this way:

“I think the concept of girl dinner came to me while I was on a hot girl walk with another female friend of mine,” Ms. Maher, 28, said from her apartment in Los Angeles.

Barf.

I need to know what a "hot girl walk" is!

“The Hot Girl Walk is a four-mile outdoor walk where you can only think about three things: things you’re grateful for, your goals and how you want to achieve them and how hot you are,” says Mia Lind, the TikTok content creator and creator of the Hot Girl Walk.

Anonymous wrote:I’m so glad I’m of the generation that talks this way:

“I think the concept of girl dinner came to me while I was on a hot girl walk with another female friend of mine,” Ms. Maher, 28, said from her apartment in Los Angeles.

Barf.

I need to know what a "hot girl walk" is!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just wanted to add that it is completely annoying that this is called a "girl dinner." Call me a salty old feminist, but didn't we fight to be called women, not girls? Also, eat some real food and quit disguising disordered eating as a lifestyle choice. Also, why is everything $%#&^% gendered? JFC.

"We"? My grandma did

#itgirlbossbabe

We don't want to be adulting anymore, back to being girls.

Words are rough stones of our culture war. Crude, dull, easily available weapons.

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There is a reason why Barbie the movie is out in 2023

Gen z and younger looked at gen x, millenial, and boomers and decided the whole Sheryl Sandberg Hillary Clinton thing is not something to aspire to