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Joleee@lemmy.worldM to science@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Men on vegan diets perceived as less masculine, highlighting gender stereotypes in diet choices.

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Men on vegan diets perceived as less masculine, highlighting gender stereotypes in diet choices.

www.theinnovativehorizon.com

Joleee@lemmy.worldM to science@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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Vegan Men Viewed as Less Macho, Exposing Gender Biases in Dietary Preferences
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In the smorgasbord of modern society, where your diet can be as much a statement as your Spotify playlist, a recent study has tossed up some food for thought. Researchers from the University of Warsaw have dished out insights into how vegetarian and vegan diets are more than a culinary choice – they're a social statement, especially for men. Vegetarianism and veganism, often umbrellaed under the quirky shorthand 'veg*n', have grown from niche diets to mainstream movements. But as our forks delve
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    The whole idea of assigning gender to foods or diets is bizarre to me… a salad is feminine while steak is masculine? What about vegetables on a burger? Or a salad with steak in it?

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      a salad is feminine while steak is masculine?

      When has a 90s cartoon ever been wrong?

      https://youtu.be/watch?v=cM2u5-mVx7Q

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        Talk about a mood, I haven’t heard space ghost in forever!

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        Put the steak on top of the salad. win win.

        -nonbinary thinking, btw lol

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      There are whole languages that assign gender to every object.

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        I don’t know if you’re being serious but what does that have to do with anything? In Italian the word for “beard” is feminine, I can assure you nobody links it with femininity in any way. Just because the neutral gender doesn’t exist that doesn’t mean everything is actually gendered.

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          Ok but like Italian assigns gender to words randomly and on a whim.

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            Exactly, my point was that word genders are meaningless

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