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how the fuck did all of those renaissance dilettantes learn so much crap? Like they spoke 3 languages and were foremost in several branches of science, plus they wrote poetry, played the violin, and were master artists? And they still had time to be gay?

vassraptor

none of them ever did any laundry at all

lettherebedragons

The emotional and physical labor necessary to maintain the lifestyles of Renaissance and Enlightenment polymaths was shunted almost entirely to their uncredited servants, slaves, wives, and daughters.

Whenever we compare ourselves to the ‘genius men’ of the past, and wonder why we fall so short, remember this: their intellectual capacity, energy, and freedom was because there was someone else washing the damn dishes.

cozyings

Photos by Júnior Guimarães on Flickr.

07heart

being vulnerable enough to tell people how much you care about them is infinitely more brave than pretending to be above love and using edginess as a method of self-preservation

sexemulators

jenizupan

lizalot

broke: The Great British Bake Off has no conflict

woke: while The Great British Bake Off is refreshingly devoid of the usual man vs. man conflict, it is filled with conflict of other varieties, notably man vs. self (the contestants vs. their knowledge of baking) and man vs. nature (the contestants vs. the time limit)

no-i-am-not-the-lochness-monster

Man vs. the forces of evil (the contestants vs. Paul Hollywood)

sanetwin

declaring “this is the bad place” every time you are even slightly inconvenienced is peak humor

formorrow-sur

It’s what Eleanor Shellstrop would have wanted

firsthome

nprfreshair

On Netflix, Chef Samin Nosrat Goes Global To Demystify ‘Salt Fat Acid Heat’

In her four-part show, James Beard award-winning food writer and chef Samin Nosrat travels the globe, talking to home chefs to learn more about the four essentials of great food.

On wanting to make her show about home cooks, not famous chefs:

“In terms of the power of a platform, and the power of media, there are so many other shows where you can see all of these fancy restaurant chefs, most of whom are men, most of whom are white men, and they’re getting featured. But this show is about home cooking. And often home cooks don’t get credit for their work, don’t get paid for their labor, and more often than not, for the last 10,000 years, they’ve been women.

So 200 years ago about is when restaurants started, and when restaurants started men entered the kitchen, and there was pay involved and glory and awards and titles, and then the professional kitchen became the men’s place and that’s been reflected in media. This was an opportunity for me to elevate and honor home cooks, most of whom are women and have been women for the great part of human history, and I don’t think that’s always acknowledged by the media.”

npr

Have you seen Salt Fat Acid Heat? -Emily

leszula

boys and men will try to convince you that humans are intrinsically selfish and egotistical because they can’t cope with the fact that women are actually taught from birth to put their community, their friends, their family, everyone on equal (sometimes even higher) footing.

male individualism is completely dependent on the emotional labour of women, and whenever you try to point this out they act like you’re denying basic human facts