Reflections
Quiche and Salad?
Friday 11th October 2019
A study produced by the University of Huddersfield in 2012 concluded,
"gender stereotypes may hinder attempts to improve men's diets if dietary recommendations are perceived as "markers of emasculation"
"Are men not looking after themselves or making important dietary changes simply because they are worried about being perceived as effeminate?"
Ian Marber. Man Food 2019
Hardly surprising if this is the case. Just looking for a photograph of quiche and salad, 81 out of 95 photos showing people eating quiche and salad were women. The vast majority of magazines and books about diets and weight loss have women in the photos, certainly on the front page,
These are subliminal messages suggesting to us that the only people on diets are women. It could also be inferred that only women are expected to be on a diet, or even that only women should be on a diet. Men on the other hand are expected to go to the gym not to lose weight but to get a 6 pack!
In fact on a personal note, I can certainly understand anyone avoiding food such as quiche and salad. For many years I would't eat quiche or salad, because I considered this to be the food of women on diets and I didn't want people to think I was one of those women that was always on a diet - of which there are many.
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