I'm trying to sign up for men's #cooking#lessons here in #Japan to placate my busy #Japanese wife. While she was away, I made this cheese omelette; beginner's luck! A #community center has me on a waiting list, or I could spill for more upscale lessons. It is astonishing and unJapanese that single-person #households are approaching 40%. #Single#men of all ages have a poor #diet, which exacerbates the #lifespan gap with #women. #Loneliness is also a #health hazard. Many men are #widowed, never #married, or their #wives#divorce them, often after the children become independent and the husband is useless around the house after a busy career. Single men, or married men interested in cooking or helping their wives, possibly fearing their wives' pent-up anger, can find #companionship as well as #survival#skills in cooking lessons. Men's classes start from zero; women #cook and #socialize.
@SteveMcCarty@psychology@sociology Looks very tasty, but give up on the ketchup. In my language, we nickname it 'equaliser', as it makes everything taste the same.
@SteveMcCarty@psychology@sociology Cooking is a great thing to learning at any age, as is the process of shopping for ingredients and food prep. It’s great to learn as a beginner, or expand skills. I applaud your efforts!
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Looks yummy. My husband is an excellent chef, trained by his feminist mother. I love cooking myself but only learnt it after I moved out from home (my mum was a housewife and she never taught me, for whatever reasons...). Together with hubby we've developed quite a repertoire and have raised two foodie girls (whom we train in cooking, as it's such a life skill).
Cultural and family values definitely play into this!
@kerstinsailer@sociology Prof. Sailer, thank you for your comment - from a different world than here in Japan. Regarding cultural and family values, Japan is the archetypal contrasting culture to the West, but there are individual differences such that some men like to cook or be helpful to their wives.
I envy your having daughters, as we have two sons, very successful in Tokyo but not very concerned about us. We do have a granddaughter, 3/4 Japanese, who is getting cuter and cuter, but Japanese are so private that I can't show photos of her. In my Intercultural Communication class I emphasize the public self vs. private self dimension, partly because the difference is so great between my family and myself as a public person: publications and projects bared at https://japanned.hcommons.org/
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