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Recently, I was talking to a man, about all kinds of cuisines, favourite foods to cook and such, when he said he would have gone out for dinner later in the night, but his "food partner" aka a girl, wasn't available that night.
So, naturally, I asked what is exactly a food partner! He said, it's someone who you go out with to have food, be it dinner or lunch, whenever both have time and both of them pay as well.
I was speechless, because to me that sounded like, he's stringing along a girl, going on these dates, doing 50/50 and calling her a food partner, who just goes with him to eat, as in like a casual, very normal activity?
I mean, it's okay if it was a girl going with a girl, girl bestfriends usually do that, but a man and a woman? No way, they can be that platonic.
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There’s a special word for someone with which we share close bonds and experiences. We usually call those people “friends”, but this guy clearly doesn’t humanise women and cannot fathom the idea of sharing a friendly experience with a woman without giving it a weird title.
"Food partner" sounds like "work wife". Why do men use these weird titles??? Why do they have to make jokes insinuating a commitment or sexual relationship when they're just buddies? Can't you just say "my friend who's also a foodie"? I swear I don't get men. It seems like a weird form of mate guarding but there's no actual comnitment.
Unless we're riding the trail on our horses moving the cattle along, I'm not any man's "partner." Do I look like Rowdy Yates? Modern men will try anything to downgrade their relationships with women. She's not even a friend to him. Barf.
This guy is telling on himself, using terms like 'work wife', 'food partner', seems like a devaluation of women for the labour they provide them. We are not their slaves, yet men to delegate these tasks anyway. They rely on accepted social norms so women take up the slack.
it's fascinating how men will twist words and even create new terms all the time just to fool women. i'm telling you, our desire to be loved by a man has doomed us.
Once, a man bragged to me about how he really wanted to try this Michelin Star restaurant and brought along a girl just for company despite not having any intentions with her. Knowing that a typical woman is likely to think a man taking them to a very nice dinner for a date means that the guy likes her, and he seemed to revel in that he had strung her along.
“Food partner”??? The next lame ass catch phrase they come up with lol. Just get a random off of tinder and call it a day. Or better yet, why not actually pursue a stable relationship so you can always have someone to eat with??🤔 Nahh makes too much sense.
I've never heard of this before. That sounds so weird. I had one college friend where 90% of us hanging out was asking the other if they wanted to eat at the dining hall. I never called him my food partner. Just... friend. Like what??
Every time, every time. I naively believe I've heard the last of men weaseling out of responsibility...I'm such a fool.