So there I was loitering in the bakery section of Dillons admiring cupcakes that I didn't need. While I was mentally haggling with myself the pros and cons of the XL glittery pink cupcake that was calling my name I couldn't help but overhear a young couple behind me.
"Babe lets get cherry pie? Since it's fall?" She asked it like a question.
"Nah. Cherry pie is too girly. Lets get blueberry." He replies without hesitation.
What?
Cherry pie?
Too?
Girly?
You have officially taken this too far random stranger man.
Dean Winchester would have your butt for saying any pie was in some way inadequate.
And saying that it is inferior because its girly? What the hell?!
Isn't it enough that we have aggressively gendered soaps? Razors? Even facial tissues? How in the world could your masculinity be so delicate and fragile that you can't enjoy a cherry pie because you deem it to be lesser by being feminine?
How do you think that makes your girlfriend feel? If that pie is too girly for you and is not worth your time, what does that tell her? Is she too girly? Is she automatically lesser than all of the males in your life, even though you claim to love her, just because of her femininity? Do you look down on her and every other female from your magical man perch of better-ness?
ITS PIE FOR THE LOVE OF STEVE.
Warrant wrote an entire song about SEX titled "Cherry Pie" and I guarantee you at least know the chorus if not the whole song. And yet this sexy food is too girly for you?
I would also like to know, how is blueberry pie any less feminine to this guy? What makes blueberries less girly? Is it just because they are blue? Or do you just dislike cherry pie and are using sexism as an excuse to not eat it?
And this isn't just about pie. We as a society are obsessed with keeping people confined into these very strict gender stereotypes. Like it will cause our social mores to crumble if we were to deviate from these imagined rules we have created. I have yet to encounter anyone who can give me a reason that men can't wear dresses.
We are making baby steps away from our tiny gender conformity boxes but are still being held back. Target got rid of its gendered toy sections for kids, but It caused a ridiculous uproar from people who thought that this would somehow ruin their children. Then there are people like actors Osric Chau and John Barrowman who are constantly challenging gender norms in clothing and killing it!
Osric looked so fly in a dress at the Leo Awards!
It haunts me that this poor girl was deprived something pure and delicious because the male she was with deemed it below him because of some arbitrary gendering. Don't let gender roles deprive you of wonderful things in this life. Wear the dress. Dye your hair.
Eat the pie.
