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Wed. 10/26 - Men Eat Red Meat, Women Eat Salads –– But Why?

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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How and why did food become so gendered? Y’know, men eat red meat and women eat salads. When did those associations begin? Plus, according to new evolutionary findings, animals might have begun to vocalize to each other even before they had ears. Sponsors: American Musical Supply, Use code COOL at https://ter.li/AmericanMusicalSupply-COOL for $20 off your next purchase of over $100 Indeed, Indeed.com/goodnews Links: How steak became manly and salads became feminine (The Conversation) Yogurt Is for Women, Fried Chicken Is for Men (The Atlantic) The Gender Binary Is a Tool of White Supremacy (An Injustice Mag) Candy: A Century of Panic and Pleasure by Samira Kawash  Sweetness and Femininity: Fashioning Gendered Appetite in the Victorian Age (CUNY Academic Works) Social Darwinism, Scientific Racism, and the Metaphysics of Race (The Journal of Negro Education)  Animals may have begun to vocalize before anyone had ears to hear them (Science)  Secret communication of sea animals discovered (BBC)  Vocal communication originated over 400 million years ago (EurekAlert) Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's Wednesday, October 26th, 2022.

0:38.3

I'm Jackson Bird today.

0:40.3

How and why did food become so gendered?

0:45.3

You know, men eat red meats and women eat salads.

0:48.3

When did those associations begin?

0:51.3

Plus, according to new evolutionary findings, animals might have begun to

0:56.3

vocalize to each other even before they had ears. Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

1:05.7

How often do you see men in yogurt commercials? Hardly ever, unless it's one of those yogurts in black

1:12.6

packaging advertising its high protein and being hawked by an ex-football player. And women are

1:18.5

equally missing from ads for beef jerky, chili, and whiskey. Women drink white wine, eat

1:25.4

salads, lean white meats, and lots of ice cream and chocolate.

1:30.2

Men eat red meat, drink beer and bourbon and, I don't know, the weirdest possible flavors

1:35.7

of Doritos.

1:37.2

The associations that many of us hold, even without really thinking about it, are so strong

1:42.0

that a 2014 study in the journal Science Psychology showed

1:45.7

that women are more likely to choose healthy, nutritious foods while men gravitate towards

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