Hey, look! A stupid fucking article says really stupid things!
Reading this ill-informed load of crap made me want to throttle the author. Really? Pretty people are JUST LIKE gay and disabled people? REALLY?! And, the complete lack of analysis about gender or race with the anecdote that began the piece is just...boggling. Like I said in SNR, there's a way to discuss how being traditionally "beautiful" can be a challenge, but that way is NOT to make pretty people seem like this poor, persecuted group.
"To a certain extent, some people react to an unusually attractive person as they might to a disabled person or any other disadvantaged group: by ignoring them."
Why oh why oh WHY is this author clamoring to shove pretty people under the oppression umbrella? I mean, anyone with a freaking brain knows that isms like racism, sexism, classism, etc. also hurt the privileged group, but to say that privileged people have it just as bad as oppressed groups? Jesus fucking christ. I am just...dumbfounded.
Aaaaanyway, I'll step off my soapbox for a second, but I thought y'all might also want to see what shoddy excuse for writing is passing for journalism these days.
On a completely different note, Operation CookAtHome is going fairly well. In order to save money and eat better, I'm beginning a quest to unlearn some bad habits I picked up when I moved here. Namely, eating out all of the time instead of preparing my own foods. I started it for a good enough reason - my roommate kept his cats' litterbox in the kitchen, and therefore I avoided the kitchen at all possible times - but now that the cats are gone (and have been for 6 months) I have no good reason not to cook at home. I'm also trying to conquer my dislike of leftovers. I have a limit - eating meals more than 2 or 3 times in a row is not something I enjoy, except for breakfast, which is the same thing every day 5 days a week (toasted everything bagel with butter, banana, coffee). So I figure if I can eat the same breakfast every day, I can also do it with lunch. So I'm attempting to eat chicken sandwiches on wheat with grapes and sea salt chips for lunch at least 4 times this week. I figure I can do things like add avocado and toast it to make it seem new and different and exciting, but we'll see. Last night, I made a frozen pizza and grilled some asparagus on the George Foreman, and it was excellent!
They say that unlearning a habit takes 30-something times of repeating the new habit, so all I have to do is make it for the next month, right?
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Comments
good thing we're having a prettypride march and doing social justice work for the beautiful and misunderstood.
ok what's so funny is that the remedy to those "beautiful" people being ignored or whatever their complaint was, was for them to be nice and treat people well. As if they had some major hurdle to overcome. Like you're actually not entitled to have people fall all over you just because you're pretty. WTF?
re leftovers, i think everyone gets bored of food (well, most foods). the trick is to figure out other things to do with leftovers that turn it into somethign different. like, pasta one day becomes casserole the next, just add veggies/sauce and bake with cheese on top. or roasted root veggies one day are mashed potates the next. stir fry becomes soup! :)
But I agree that I just need to learn more recipes so I can turn leftovers into new things.
i bet there are websites that have great ideas for leftover recipes!
Ugh your roommate reminds me of the roommates I once had who had such disgusting kitchen habits I never felt safe cooking, so I just cooked dinner at my friend's house for nearly a year. I'm talking about people leaving shrimp on the window ledge all day "to thaw" or me finding a puddle of grease on the bottom of the inside of the oven D:
But yes, the article was indeed "hilarious."
http://www.cooking.copingincrazyville.c
facedminded people to date in those support groups, because really, who would want to date an attractive person??!Also, I got tired of making sandwiches so now they are on tortillas.
Also, I like the wrap idea in theory, but I actually really detest sandwich wraps. Boo on me!
I am a cookbook whore, and I made something from this book last night, that was indeed quick and easy and also, really fucking good. Stir fried chicken and veggies and noodles in coconut sauce. And when it says 4 servings, it actually means 4 good size servings, I made it for dinner last night, my roommate had some and I still have enough for at least 2 more lunches. But I am the same as you, I can't deal with eating the same thing every day. I will probably be choking down that last lunch.
That cookbook looks great, though!
I have to say that one of my Operation CookAtHome goals is to be more like you! Because you seem to cook a lot more often than me, and your homemade stuff sounds pretty freaking amazing!
But without a dishwasher, I also hate the cleanup and the leftovers.
I really respect her for owning her prettiness. I sort of feel like Tyra Banks should highlight this problem with a haute couture fashion lay out on the next season of America's Next Top Model, just like last cycle when Tyra created awareness of homelessness by putting actual homeless people wearing couture in the background of photos featuring models dressed as if they were homeless. That's the kind of thing that might bring some real change for all those pretty people out there who seem to have so much trouble getting attention in social situations, especially when they bring their homely friends out with them to act as wing-people or whatever.
Oh, and this just in: SMART PEOPLE FALSELY ASSUMED TO BE UNINTERESTED IN REALITY TV. "It's so HURTFUL when no one believes I watch A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila just because I have a 175 IQ," mourned Brainiac McEinstein. "I wish brilliant people like me weren't so stereotyped!"
Sometimes I do feel the need to start a Smarties Into Dumb TV support group!
oh wait. nothing.
P.S. I stopped reading that article after the first 'cute' little anecdote. Blech!
Now I can't wait to make some!
You make a dish you'd be willing to eat. Instead of cooking for one, you make as many portions as there are people in the collective. Let's say there are six people involved. Make six portions. Put them in takeout type containers.
Meet with the people and swap so that you end up with six different meals. Voila!
It is cheaper to make six portions of something than six small meals.
ACTUALLY, with the various agendas of the people in my life, we are either
1. canceling the DC
2. adding enough more members that various peoples' needs can be met
3. Changing the style to a more casual approach where you don't have to commit to showing up every week but when you DO go, you just bring as many portions as you want, and make sure to only leave with the same number of containers as you brought into the equation. This would mean that people could come whenever it was convenient and the core people would still get meals swapped.
Does that help? We're all pretty good cooks. Some of the meals that have been made for it include grilled salmon with caramelized leeks and onions, homemade jamaican style meat patties, breakfast scones with bacon and cheddar, turkey and lambsquarter lasagna, etc...
The next meeting of it is Saturday, and I think then it will take a hiatus for the summer, though I could be wrong.
Did I mention we're fairly desperate for new members? :)
Unfortunately, I won't be available this Saturday, but please do remind me once you all start up again!
Being white.