Where did this thing come from? Along with the stereotype of girls drinking coffee and eating nothing else? And the “almond mom” thing? Do women not eat? What’s the history of this cultural thingy?
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The stereotype exists more in this post than in general. Never seen/heard either of these things in any new context beyond how these ideas have been integrated into advertising/etc since the 50s, maybe earlier.
Expectations of women being thin is pretty culturally embedded. And many women can’t eat much if they want to be thin, me included. I barely ate for many years. I eat more now bc I finally got tired of being hungry all the time and I’m a lot heavier.
It dates back to my grandparents generation at the very least, and they were born before ww1
Girl dinner is definitely a self deprecating kind of joke about mental illness and not eating good meals. Take a picture of your hot cheetos, cheese stick, and cigarette? Girl dinner. There’s also boy dinner which is the same but more unhinged. Like a pizza sitting directly on your bedsheets.
I have seen a table of women sit for two hours and eat so little that there was no point in cooking the meal. Babies. They talk about babies.
To start with, I’m not a fan of the term “girl dinner” because I think it genders and infantilises what can actually be a very healthy way to eat for anyone.
In western and especially American culture, there’s this idea that anything less than a complete traditional meal for dinner is a failure, when in reality, if you’re not hungry for all that, putting together a collection of exactly what you do want to eat is way healthier. (Of course, this rests on the idea that you’re eating things like bread, cheese, nuts, protein, fruits and veggies and not just junk food even if junk food is also included. I’m eating chips right now, but my main meal today was an omelette with spinach and some bread.)
The fixation on eating “three square meals a day” is definitely an overgeneralization for people who work mostly sedentary jobs and can lead to overeating.
It’s much better to teach people and kids how to eat what you’re hungry for and stop when you’re full, and how to put together healthy food that is enjoyable and easy!
Almond mom was coined when Yolanda Foster told her daughter, super model Gigi Hadid to have two almonds and chew them really well when she was hungry. It now encompasses moms embedded in diet culture trying to impose their views on their kids, usually daughters.
So girl dinner is adapting to the single male eating pattern? Think you ladies need to give credit where it’s due. Guys have been living spartan life styles since the days of… sparta?
I’m single and the kids moved out. When the BF was alive it was a meat/starch/veg dinner every night. Whether I was hungry or not. And in the end when he was really sick and couldnt eat…he still wanted that homecooked dinner.
I am now the queen of grazing. Cut up broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, avocados with a spoon, cheese sticks, dates, prunes, other dried fruit, bagged salad, eaten out of the bag with dressing on the side. Soup. I learned to make soda bread. I eat it in chunks I pull off. Sunflower seeds, walnuts, cashews. If I cook it’s usually all in one pot. Choppd veg, some meat or not, maybe cheese. Eaten out of the pot.
I’ve even been known to eat dinner in the shower. Temp controlled, dishes washed.
And while we’re at it, I think women got a rep for eating “light” on dates because they didn’t want to look like a “pig”. Because a healthy eater isn’t attractive?
Does this have to do with [fake Paris Hilton’s conversation with Nicole?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWeiw2cIdPA&t=76s) Paris says she’s hungry and asks if Nicole had eaten yet, and upon hearing that Nicole’s had an almond, comments that she’s done for the day.
It would be an exaggeration of the diets needed to maintain their thin figures.
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