Analysis Of Dave Barry's Essay 05 Lost In The Kitchen
05 Lost in the Kitchen an essay by Dave Barry
Men are still basically scum when it comes to helping out in the kitchen. This is one of the two insights I had last
Thanksgiving, the other one being that Thanksgiving night must be the slowest night of the year in terms of human sexual activity.
First, in Barry’s piece, carefully focus on hyperbole, stereotypes, irony, understatement, and comic effect.
Second, reflect on your notes and thoughts; think aloud on paper; reconsider your notes; ask questions; and think about your thinking.
Nobody wants to engage in human sexual activity with somebody who smells vaguely like yams and is covered with a thin layer of turkey grease, which describes pretty much everybody in the
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I think most males rarely prepare food for others, and when they do, they have their one specialty dish (spaghetti, in my case) that they prepare maybe twice a year in a very elaborate production, for which they expect to be praised as if they had developed, right there in the kitchen, a cure for heart disease.
In defense of men, let me say this: Women do not make it easy to learn. Let's say a woman is in the kitchen, working away after having been at her job all day, and the man, feeling guilty, finally shuffles in and offers to help. So the woman says something like: "Well, you can cut up the turnips." Now to the
WOMAN, who had all this sexist Home Economics training back in the pre-feminism era, this is a very simple instruction. It is the absolute simplest thing she can think of.
I asked my wife to read this and tell me what she thought.
This is what she said: She said before Women's Liberation, men took care of the cars and women took care of the kitchen, whereas now that we have Women's Liberation, men no longer feel obligated to take care of the cars. This seemed pretty accurate to me, so I thought I'd just tack it on to the end here, while she makes waffles.
Barry, Dave. “Lost in the Kitchen.” 2 May 1986. 4 Dec. 2005
Men are still basically scum when it comes to helping out in the kitchen. This is one of the two insights I had last
Thanksgiving, the other one being that Thanksgiving night must be the slowest night of the year in terms of human sexual activity.
First, in Barry’s piece, carefully focus on hyperbole, stereotypes, irony, understatement, and comic effect.
Second, reflect on your notes and thoughts; think aloud on paper; reconsider your notes; ask questions; and think about your thinking.
Nobody wants to engage in human sexual activity with somebody who smells vaguely like yams and is covered with a thin layer of turkey grease, which describes pretty much everybody in the
United States on Thanksgiving …show more content…
I think most males rarely prepare food for others, and when they do, they have their one specialty dish (spaghetti, in my case) that they prepare maybe twice a year in a very elaborate production, for which they expect to be praised as if they had developed, right there in the kitchen, a cure for heart disease.
In defense of men, let me say this: Women do not make it easy to learn. Let's say a woman is in the kitchen, working away after having been at her job all day, and the man, feeling guilty, finally shuffles in and offers to help. So the woman says something like: "Well, you can cut up the turnips." Now to the
WOMAN, who had all this sexist Home Economics training back in the pre-feminism era, this is a very simple instruction. It is the absolute simplest thing she can think of.
I asked my wife to read this and tell me what she thought.
This is what she said: She said before Women's Liberation, men took care of the cars and women took care of the kitchen, whereas now that we have Women's Liberation, men no longer feel obligated to take care of the cars. This seemed pretty accurate to me, so I thought I'd just tack it on to the end here, while she makes waffles.
Barry, Dave. “Lost in the Kitchen.” 2 May 1986. 4 Dec. 2005