Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Betty Friedan's Passage is Kind of Depressing
I'm going to analyze "Doing Cooking" because the other one made me sad. So, I noticed that the writer talks about cooking the way we as a class talk about the everyday. She talks about "nuances" and how it's really the culmination of all these little things that make cooking so special. Also she brings up that "the sophisticated ritualization of basic gestures has thus become more dear to me than the persistence of words and texts". I think she's saying that words aren't enough; they don't do the concept of cooking justice. On the first day of class we tried to describe "the everyday" and failed. There just isn't a combination of words that adequately describes it. Also, we decided it was the little things that made everyday life so special. The message of this passage is clearly that life is nothing without cooking. I fully support this idea.
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I had to laugh at this because the second article also made me mad! Anyway i like the connection that you made with how she describes cooking as we describe everyday life.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you at how you think she's saying that words aren't enough and that they don't do the concept of cooking justice. Life is nothing without cooking, you're right. And women are a vital part of this cooking mundanity, and yet are reprimanded for it even though it's something that is built into women as a societal structure and expectation.
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