re: Yearly Thanksgiving Play By Play Gamethread

That was petty af. You want the men to help? Ask them. Men, shockingly, aren’t retarded. In my family, my husband smoked the turkey (overnight on Wednesday), so he got the day off. My dad worked many, many years to pay for the fancy house in the NO GD we were all at, so he got the day off. My brother was watching his sons, keeping them out of our hair in the kitchen, so he, in fact, did not get the day off. (My other brother took his wife and kids to a tropical destination, but in years past both he and his wife help out in the kitchen).

But if we’d asked any of our men, they’d’ve done whatever we asked them to do. I freaking hate this whole “men vs women” holiday cooking controversy. It’s not a thing unless you don’t ask for help if you need it. Ffs, in many enclaves of Cajun culture, men make the roux and the holiday (Christmas, MG, etc) gumbo. If ladies are being abandoned in the kitchen, it’s because y’all aren’t using y’all’s voices to ask for them to help. Men do not suck at cooking (at least in Cajun culture); many of our most famous chefs are men.