Deserving
I was just sitting here watching Orange is the New Black when two of the characters made some comment about getting to have a cookie as a reward for doing some arbitrary task. I immediately stopped paying attention to the show and starting thinking about the whole concept of thinking we, as women can only feel comfortable eating a dessert or some other 'bad' food if we do something deserving of it. I can't think of a time when I heard a man say he felt like he had to earn his dessert, or called a cookie a reward. In our society women historically have unhealthy relationships with food and body image, and it is something ingrained in us at a young age. When I was a little girl I was sometimes allowed to go to the 'girl's lunch' at Red Lobster with my mom and grandma. I would sit there feeling like a big girl, sipping on my shirley temple, devouring cheddar biscuits with popcorn shrimp, and listening to the two ladies that I idolized most in t...