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


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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.

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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)
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