High Heels and Pearls in the Kitchen

When does enjoying cooking and cleaning become dangerous to a woman's sense of feminism? I have yet to reach this line, but my high school friends were quite shocked when they learned that I cooked, and enjoyed it. All through high school I proclaimed my great dissatisfaction with the culinary arts. Mostly because I was not good at it, and because I felt that if I learned to cook I would be forever bound in a kitchen under the rule of a man. This is totally unacceptable. However, as time went on, I came to realize I needed to be able to cook for my own survival, and then cooking for others can into play. Now I enjoy cooking, baking, and setting a beautiful table. Does this make me domestic? Yes, in a way. Does it make me housewife material? No, not at all. Being able to cook and clean well and enjoy the satisfaction of completing such tasks well appeals to the drive and motivation to do everything well. In my case I would be the one who would work hard at a job and then come home to cook and clean well. Enjoying the cooking and cleaning does not decrease my desire to return to schooling or increase an inclination to get married and procreate. Actually it does quite the opposite. Just a thought as I sit in my SO's apartment cleaning.....