This is so the worst thing you're going to read all day.

I know it's early, but I'm reasonably confident this will hold out: Food trends men hate.

The obvious flaw in this gender-essentialist garbage fart of an article is that I could easily find dozens of women to make the same food-specific complaints as the quoted men, and dozens of men to disagree with the quoted men. It's just that when a man says some critical shit about food trends, he's just HAW HAW being a dude, but when a woman says the same thing, she's a haughty fucking bitch. And only one of those stereotypes makes for a "fun" puff piece.

And it's so superfun to insert a little belligerent misogyny from patriarchy-steeped dudes who define their masculinity in contradistinction to the feminine:
Cupcakes

As cute and yummy as they are to the ladies, cupcakes are not so popular among the XY chromosome set.

"The ratio of frosting to cake is all off. And you look like a little girl eating them." --Richard, lawyer

Macarons (French macaroons)

"If eating cupcakes didn't make me look ridiculous enough, how am I supposed to walk around eating a macaron? I know — let's go shopping and while you are in the changing room, I'll hold your purse. At least that's more masculine then a macaron."--Joe, salon owner
Yiiiiiiiiiiiiiiikes.

And, as per usual, these profoundly insecure disgorgements of woman-hating are published under the general topic of "what all men think about something." Which makes me wonder, yet again, why it is that so many men think it's feminism that is their enemy, despite the fact that feminists do men the honor of treating them like individuals of whom we expect the capacity to reject and denounce the axiomatic attribution of misogynist tropes to all men.

[H/T to Shaker itsdanilove.]

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