The Goddess Professor Speaks

While I was fixing my breakfast this morning, I was flooded with thoughts from those shitty posts we've seen all over social media about how modern women don't know how to cook, or "to catch a good man, we need to cook a good meal," or "real women cook real meals, "etc. I've been cooking for myself since I was about 7 or 8, so I never felt those posts were talking to me directly, BUT they still annoyed me. They especially annoyed me when the person posting it was a man. My first thought was always, "but do you know how to cook?" In recent years, many women have clapped back, saying things like "why are you depending on a woman to feed you?" or "real men cook too" or "don't go into a relationship looking for your mate to be your momma." And we've even seen plenty of men clapping back in the same vein that "men should know how to cook too," or "grown men know how to feed themselves," etc....

March is Women's History Month! I intend to celebrate as best I can, by doing what I do--writing and discussing. My celebration of history and knowledge began in earnest last month in my attempt to celebrate and Remember the Past in a series of blog posts about the lives and contributions of Black Americans to the growth of this nation. (Click the links to the right under February 2015 for the posts.) I intended to write a post a day, but life got in the way. As much as I wanted to write daily and share my knowledge about history, esp. Black History, there are just so many hours in the day and job, kids, husband, grading, sleeping, decompressing from life usurped my extra writing time. So, instead of attempting to blog daily, I'll just do what I can. This month I turn to women contributions. Rather than focusing solely on history, I'll focus on women in general and the stories, the history, the contributions, the issues... all of it. But also note that in light of ...