Girls who eat meat

At the moment, it's the number one most emailed story at the NY Times.

My opinion: I hate finicky eaters.

Comments

Oh for crissakes, the women can order a steak but the guys CAN'T? Oh well, at least some people are finally realizing that our sharp incisors and eyes situated to see in front of us are clues that humans are predators and therefore are carnivores.

[Joshua Holmes]

My opinion: I hate everything.

Fixed.

[Sapphire]

I eat what I like and I don't care what a guy thinks of the food I choose either. What you see is what you get with me. I have no time for this upper middle class pretentious nonsense and I wouldn't feel comfortable having some guy evaluate me based on what I eat at a restaurant. This conscious effort to eat beef by some women is just another fad and these urban hipsters are not fooling anyone into thinking they are down to earth.

[Jim Beam]

"A conscious effort to eat meat by women?"

I always thought that eating meat was an instinct rather than "an effort"? People just need to get over themselves by thinking that what they eat "says something about themselves". Like some sort of "statement" that says "I exist world and hear me roar as I eat this T-Bone steak!"

Note to all: You're not special.

Who or what is to blame for all this "inflated self-esteem crap" anyway?

Who or what is to blame for all this "inflated self-esteem crap" anyway?

The fucking liberals, that's who.

Not sure I understand the New York dating scene. This article follows one on people getting dumped because of their apartments. Are New Yorkers really that ugly that so much neurotic stragetizing goes into dating? Or is the Times starved for things to print?

But others, especially those who are thin, say ordering a salad displays an unappealing mousiness. “It seems wimpy, insipid, childish,” said Michelle Heller, 34, a copy editor at TV Guide. “I don’t want to be considered vapid and uninteresting.”

Ordering meat, on the other hand, is a declarative statement, something along the lines of “I am woman, hear me chew.”

"This conscious effort to eat beef by some women is just another fad and these urban hipsters are not fooling anyone into thinking they are down to earth."

Is this true? I didn't read the article because I won't register with the NYT. Is this really another hipster fad like skateboards for 32 men, stupid tattoos or those even dumber "castro" hats? Why the fuck would you go out to dinner and order something you didn't like?

"But others, especially those who are thin, say ordering a salad displays an unappealing mousiness. “It seems wimpy, insipid, childish,” said Michelle Heller, 34, a copy editor at TV Guide. “I don’t want to be considered vapid and uninteresting...'

That can't be real. This has got to be a pparody piece. Nobody says stuff like that.

[Peter]

Over the years, I've probably known as many male vegetarians as female ones. It never seemed like a chik thing to me at all.

[beowulf]

I've always liked Michael Savage's theory that vegan women are so irritable and birdbrained because menstruating women tend to suffer iron deficiency anemia unless they have plenty of meat in their diet.

[SFG]

Actually, anemia tends to make you more tired than anything else.

I think it's probably that irritable and birdbrained people tend to get concerned about the food they eat just like they get concerned about anything else...but you knew that. ;)

Granted veganism's healthy if you take B12 though.

And yes, people in NYC really are that neurotic, Jim.

[Spungen]

Just be happy you don't live in California.

[Spungen]

Good reason to order salad over steak: It's less expensive, and the guy's paying.

If a guy wouldn't drink with me, he was sunk.

[Brandon Berg]

At least they made it through the article without quoting someone from the PRCM or CSPI.

[DML]

I'd settle for the girl paying her portion of the bill. :)

[roissy]

It's less expensive, and the guy's paying.

big mistake.

If a guy wouldn't drink with me, he was sunk.

candy is dandy
but liquor is quicker.

[Sapphire]

"Who or what is to blame for all this "inflated self-esteem crap" anyway?"

Their parents

[Sapphire]

"Is this true? I didn't read the article because I won't register with the NYT."

You don't have to register to read this article I did it without registering.

"Is this really another hipster fad like skateboards for 32 men, stupid tattoos or those even dumber "castro" hats?"

Most likely it is until the next fad comes along like eating cooked earth worms or something.

"Why the fuck would you go out to dinner and order something you didn't like?"

It is the same reason why women wear tight uncomfortable clothing it is the fashion. Heaven forbid they be any different from anyone else.

[Jack]

Spungen, what if he was driving?

[Agnostic]

I didn't read the article because I won't register with the NYT.

Broadcasting this act of rebellion was the whole point of the comment. Yeah, fight the system.

"Who or what is to blame for all this "inflated self-esteem crap" anyway?"

Their parents

Nope.

If a guy wouldn't drink with me, he was sunk.

I'd never drink much on a date b/c my 1/4 Japanese blood just happens to contain the alleles that make me unable to process alcohol; I get the "Asian glow" or redface. Maybe if it were a dimly lit place and we'd be inside it for a few hours for the effect to diminish, but otherwise fuhgeddaboutit.

I have no time for this upper middle class pretentious nonsense and I wouldn't feel comfortable having some guy evaluate me based on what I eat at a restaurant.

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It is the same reason why women wear tight uncomfortable clothing it is the fashion.

That pretentious nonsense helps to keep well-to-do people from bloating into blimps and from turning off others by cramming whatever they please down their chow-hole in public, while the tight uncomfortable clothing shows respect for herself and others by not offending their eyes with ill-fitting athletic gear that only college coeds could pull off.

(Also, from what I hear, the clothing isn't uncomfortable anyway -- heels maybe, but so wear flats or whatever.)

There's plenty of silliness to point out among the upper classes, but not the aspects that raise us above caveman status.

[Ben Stein]

That pretentious nonsense helps to keep well-to-do people from bloating into blimps

But I love chubby white girls. They're like warm teddy bears.

Also, from what I hear, the clothing isn't uncomfortable anyway -- heels maybe, but so wear flats or whatever.

The problem is that most flats are ugly.

[David Alexander]

Damn it, I hate fucking Firefox now.