Rod Stewart's wife says that cooking "belittles men, but takes the masculinity"

[Liberal_in_LA]

Penny Lancaster, wife of singer Rod Stewart, has claimed men should not cook because “putting the apron on” robs men of their masculinity.

Lancaster conceded her views may be “a bit old-fashioned” but said she believed men should be “the hunter-gatherer, the macho man, looking after the family”.

“I do agree with equal rights and if women want to go and work that’s fabulous,” said Lancaster, 44.



If anything, when men come home I think it’s more a case of being part of the family, spending more time with the children, being a strong role model.

“But going as far as cooking and putting the apron on, I think that it, not belittles men, but takes the masculinity and I would miss that.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11676285/Penny-Lancaster-cooking-takes-away-a-mans-masculinity.html

[atreides1]

1. Okay then

If she's that "old fashioned" maybe her husband should hunt in an old fashioned way...a long stick with a flint head on it. No more singing songs for Rod...from now on he'll set the example and do things the "old fashioned" way!

[spanone]

2. he obviously didn't marry her for her mind. 'if women want to go and work'

yea, women just go and work cause they want to, penny.

[Liberal_in_LA]

8. by the way.. she doesn't cook either. has a professional chef.. I wonder the gender

[LadyHawkAZ]

91. Presumably overseeing the servants is also an apron kinda task

Mustn't harm the ol' macho.

[JustAnotherGen]

3. To each their own

1 - I didn't realize he got married again - what is this? #4? #5? It's got to be up there right?

2 - I don't care how things work in her home as long as she keeps her nose out of mine.

[underpants]

29. Yeah at 44 Penny is getting near Rod's normal expiration date

I'm just sayin'

[JustAnotherGen]

42. Oh my - you went there!

You know - I "do" for my husband. But I don't shove it down other women's throats.

And - she kind of emasculates men who DO cook.

I especially like when my hunter braises his venison for us.

[underpants]

31. Penny is #3

Looked it up

He has 8 kids by 5 women.

[hifiguy]

56. Did he ever play in the NBA?

The stats would suggest so.

[underpants]

61. His first kid was given up for adoption

In 1963, for Rod, that might not have been a bad decision

In reference to his divorces, Stewart was once quoted as saying, "Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house."

[struggle4progress]

79. Third wife, fifth baby mama. He's got eight kids

[brooklynite]

4. When I cook, I don't wear an apron...does that help?

[kentauros]

16. I hate aprons.

They just get in the way. I did like the chef's wear I used to have for baking. Although I had to wash twice a week due to my small set of three being saturated in flour and butter by the end of each day

[GoneOffShore]

40. Used to hate aprons but I'm now a fan.

My trousers don't get covered in flour, nor do they get wet or covered in grease.

Plus I always tuck a side towel in the tie.

I'm not a fan of aprons with a bib though.

[kentauros]

41. Sure, they're fine for some.

I just wear clothing I don't care about as I don't have chef's wear any more. Grease spatters are the only thing that are ever a bother.

[GoneOffShore]

49. I always loved the cooking shows where people cooked in evening wear

I wonder what those cleaning bills were like.

[kentauros]

64. I think some of them still do!

Or at least nicer-looking clothing than what most of us would wear while cooking

[oneshooter]

44. I do.

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[GoneOffShore]

50. You win.

Especially for the hat.

[Pooka Fey]

54. I'm not fond of olive oil stains on my clothes, so I wear one

and so does my husband when he cooks.

[Solly Mack]

5. Oh, bite me.

[blm]

26. heheheh…..

I'm with Solly.

[Solly Mack]

68. It's an oldie but it does the job.

[Initech]

6. I'll forward this to my friend who is a professional chef.

I'm sure that he will have a choice comment or two to leave.

[underpants]

30. I was wondering if they ever eat at top end restaurants

Who does she think is probably back there in the kitchen?

[Vinca]

7. ROFL - she has a chef.

But this "old fashioned girl" likes to go to the grocery store to "stay connected."

[Liberal_in_LA]

10. yes she does. and she is also ok with men singing and dancing apparently

[MineralMan]

9. I do all the cooking in my home. I'm good at it,

and my wife doesn't seem to mind. She isn't interested in cooking. This kind of old-school role assignment is really, really boring.

I don't wear an apron, though. I learned to keep from spilling stuff on my clothing.

[randome]

23. Throw off your shackles, MineralMan!

Go outside and kill something for dinner!

(But not squirrels. No, no, not squirrels.)
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[Smarmie Doofus]

11. Sounds like he ended up marrying "Maggie Mae".

(That WAS Rod Stewart... wasn't it?)

And, besides which... I think it was the men ( for the most part) who hunted and the women ( for the most part,) who gathered.


Fabuloso.

Can I go microwave my sandwich now?

[JanMichael]

52. Maggie would be 110 years old by now. nt

[Smarmie Doofus]

65. The morning sun when it's in her eyes really shows her age.

Nonetheless she looks remarkably well-preserved.

[Scootaloo]

12. Who's Rod Stewart? n/t

[Liberal_in_LA]

14. joking... right? or under age 30

[Marr]

13. Such a weird thing to attach gender baggage to.

I'm single. If I didn't learn to cook, I'd be living on garbage food or, at best, raw ingredients.

[randome]

15. Marrying someone like that reflects poorly on Stewart's choices.

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[truebrit71]

17. Rod Stewart = 'Hunter/gatherer'...

[DawgHouse]

39. I KNOW! Isn't that hilarious!

[Enrique]

66. he hunted his own outfits

[Monk06]

73. Hunter / gatherer. What like this apron wearing sissy boy?

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/apr/19/marco-pierre-white-words

[closeupready]

18. Good thing for us both, Ms. Lancaster, I'm gay.

AND I love cooking!

So no worries, our paths are unlikely to cross in this lifetime, for lots of reasons.

[Tipperary]

19. This is sad.

Well, we know what old Rod looks for in a woman now, don't we?

[Gormy Cuss]

20. If I listen long enough to you, I'll find a way to believe that it's all true

Knowing
That you lie straight- faced while I cry.

[JustAnotherGen]

43. Hey - She just wants to be good to you

She didn't mean to bad!

[ProfessorGAC]

88. Rod Didn't Write That Song

And he obviously never really paid attention to the lyrics.

[Gormy Cuss]

89. Wake up, Maggie, I think I have something to say to you.

You really should be back in school.

[ProfessorGAC]

92. Doesn't Change A Thing!

Doesn't change a thing! That mandolin wind. . .

[Snow Leopard]

21. Oh Penny

prepare for the wrath of the feminist hate squad coming your way. Have your assistant attend to your twitter feed for a while. lol.

[BillZBubb]

35. Call your friend Rush.

Tell him about your "feminazi" concerns. He'll be glad to hear from you.

[KamaAina]

22. What a ditzbrain.

[lonestarnot]

24. Ain't that the truth.

[Nye Bevan]

25. That's ridiculous. What about barbecuing?

And speaking from experience, an apron is highly advisable when barbecuing in the nude.

[oneshooter]

45. Or frying bacon.

Don't ask and I won't have to ignore you.

[Jamastiene]

80. .

[One_Life_To_Give]

27. Patriarchy is Strong in this One nt

[BeyondGeography]

28. I cook and look plenty manly doing it

As long as I don't break out into, "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" I'm fine.

[JHB]

32. She's entitled to her mistaken opinion.

[hollowdweller]

33. I have a few pals that think like that.

One his divorce actually was in part over the fact his wife didn't have dinner on the table.

The girl he married after was a cook and always has dinner ready.

Another married a girl and she does all the meals. A while back he and his son went camping with a bunch of us.

OK so my other buddy and I wake up and start cooking breakfast. I cook probably 75% of the meals at home and 100% camping and stuff, and my buddy he's a good cook too and his wife didn't come with us anyway either.

So my buddy says to my other pal "you didn't bring any food?" and my pal said of he and his son "We're just a couple of MEN" which meant I guess they were unable to feed themselves???

Another buddy we were having a gathering several years back. We had rented a house. I get up and cook breakfast for everybody. This other buddy doesn't want our breakfast. He has something he eats for breakfast every day. His wife is really pregnant and not really feeling well and he rousts her out to make HIS breakfast.

Interesting 2 of the 3 have been divorced. My mom was a stay at home mom and did most of the cooking but my dad cooked a lot of special things. Deer. Fish he caught. Squirrels, and then he had 3 or 4 difft regular food specialties he cooked and when we went deer hunting he did a lot of the cooking he and another old guy so I always wanted to know how to cook and be self sufficient. It's weird to me anybody would want to be served.

[DanTex]

34. She believes in the traditional "aging rich celebrity/gold digging trophy wife" relationship.

[kwassa]

58. Very traditional. Rod is 70 years old. He has had a lot of work done.

His wife is 26 years younger.

[BillZBubb]

36. All of Rod's many wives have thought this way.

Generally, he seems to prefer air-head, YOUNG, right wing, blond women.

[Ilsa]

48. I suspect Rod is as ditzy as his wives.

An intelligent man would have sought better DNA for his offspring. Rod is as moronic as his wife.
Screw 'em both.

[Skittles]

69. correct

they'll say whatever they think makes their meal ticket happy

[Monk06]

74. Stuart's preferred wife would look exactly like himself. Hell he'd marry himself if he could, daft

prick.

[GreatGazoo]

37. she is living in the past

She has a singer from the 1970s and attitudes from the 19th Century.

[olddots]

38. both of them have ingested to many hair products .

In other L.A. news. last week John Mayall and Dick Dale played the Whiskey ,they both may remember when the WhiskeyA Go Go 's bathrooms had been cleaned .

[BlueJazz]

46. She's the type of Woman I'd NEVER take home to meet the parents.

[Pooka Fey]

47. Some days the dumb blond jokes just write themselves...

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Pierre Gagnaire, (French) 2015 Voted Top chef out of 100 contestants by his 2 and 3 star chef peers

Le pape de la cuisine, Paul Bocuse, arrive en deuxième position, suivi de l'Espagnol (i.e. a man) Joan Roca ("El Celler de Can Roca&quot , l'Américain Thomas Keller ("Per Se&quot , les Français Alain Ducasse ("Louis XV&quot , Michel Bras, Eric Frechon ("Epicure&quot , Yannick Alleno ("Ledoyen&quot , ainsi que le Japonais Seiji Yamamoto ("Nihon Ryori Ryugin&quot et l'Américain Daniel Humm ("Eleven Madison Park&quot . Plus largement, 26 autres chefs étoilés français figurent dans le classement. Mais seules 5 femmes y sont représentées, dont la Française Anne-Sophie Pic (47e).

Out of the top 100 classment, only 5 women chefs are represented. ("Chapeau" to these 5 women, btw, for making it in a man's world of professional cuisine)

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Alain Ducasse (French)

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Joel Robuchon (French)

One thing I really admire about Frenchmen, is that despite the fact that these guys are seriously MACHO, they have ZERO problems putting on the apron and getting to work in the kitchen. I'm talking about the average everyday garden-variety French dude, not just these chefs. It wouldn't even occur to these guys that cooking could be considered un-masculine. They would howl with laughter at this absurd idea, and then make a delicious dinner for the whole family.

[JanMichael]

51. I never thought of him as "masculine". Never. He always seemed a little whoopsie.

Seriously even with the Stardust reference.

I guess money means man to many.

[mainer]

53. Gordon Ramsay and Anthony Bourdain are SO swishy

is what she's saying.

[WillowTree]

55. She has a right to her opinion. I doubt many will agree with her but.......whatever.

[immoderate]

57. She's married to that guy who sounds like he's gargling?

--imm

[dembotoz]

59. The sadness of just because ya got lots of bucks you have something worthwhile to say

[kwassa]

60. my 88-year-old mother complained about my dad not cooking ...

and praised my generation of men for cooking, as all I know seem to do.

I like cooking, too.

[99Forever]

62. Sorry, I really don't care what some celib's wife thinks or says.

Not relevant to jack.

[Le Taz Hot]

63. Yeah,

and I'm real sure she would have married ole' Rod if he was living on Social Security in a mobile home in Barstow, CA. Give me a break.

[Historic NY]

67. I don't wear an apron...

but perhaps I should. I find women will gladly relegate themselves to the Sous chef position, if I say I will cook.
I like herbs and wine in my cooking some say it scares them to use.

[hatrack]

70. Uh, OK . . . so what does the fact that I did the dishes tonight say about me?

Yes, I'm in the Y Brigade, should you wonder . . .

[Liberal_in_LA]

72. she would think think you unmanly

[hatrack]

93. Oh damn, my day is SO ruined!

[Drahthaardogs]

71. I am second generation Italian-American, all

of us men cook. Most as good or better than the women. I don't think there is anything lacking about my masculinity.
Growing up we sure had that latin maschismo thing going on. Maybe it only robs English punk rock metro-sexual singing men of their masculinity? Hell, I am so macho, my sperm smoke Marlboro.

[Pooka Fey]

84. I posted upthread, it's the same for French guys

they all cook really well, as good or better than the women, and they are very Macho (not in an obnoxious way). My husband is French, and we live here. A French guy would laugh his ass off if some British ditz questioned his masculinity because he is wearing an apron while cooking dinner for his family.

[CBGLuthier]

75. Her views are not old fashioned

They are fucking ignorant.

I once watched Rod Stewart come down a stair on stage wearing silk pajamas, I don't think frying some eggs will hurt his masculinity.

[Tanuki]

76. Yeah, Penny, an apron would "take his masculinity"

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[PeteSelman]

77. With the kind of money he has, he doesn't need to cook.

Although, I'd still cook even if if had that kind of cash.

I just enjoy it.-

My wife doesn't mind it either.

To each their own I guess.

[Jeroen]

78. Seriously, who gives a damn what she thinks?

Celebrity news...

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

81. Because when we think "manly hunter gatherer"....

this guy immediately comes to mind:

[LiberalElite]

82. What an idiot - nt

[Jamastiene]

83. It's straight women like her that give a bad name to

womankind all the way around. No damn wonder women don't have equal rights. Too many like her feeding into the stupid stereotypes and myths. The best chef that ever cooked for me was an Italian guy from Boston. We were both in Myrtle Beach in the dead of winter. That was the best hamburger with spaghetti sauce I ever had in my life. He was way more manly than Rod Stewart could ever dream of being. He could have bench pressed Rod Stewart and Rod Stewart's idiot of a wife.

[HockeyMom]

85. My Great-Grandpa was a chief in a Manhattan Hotel

He also fought in the Civil War at 15 years old. My Dad did a lot of the cooking when I was growing up in the 50's/60's. Although I will say this much. He NEVER wore an apron. Did not care if his clothes got dirty. He would wash them himself. If he spilled something on the floor, he got the mop out and did that himself also. Rod's wife would be horrified at all the "feminine" chores my Dad did.

BTW, Dad was a Longshoreman.

[DawgHouse]

86. Awwww, she's just so presh!

[raccoon]

87. Who cares what this trophy wife thinks? nt

[NaturalHigh]

90. Well, I don't wear an apron, but I'm a pretty good cook.

My family unanimously votes me the best cook in the house. I think my masculinity is still intact.