What's the problem with it?

Lack of historical context. Let's start from here: up to ~1950 (your data may vary. Mine does), more than 50% of the world's population lived on the fine line between malnutrition and starving. When you throw industrialization into this equation, along with various hedging-capitalist hedging tactics taken by the (then-now more than ever centralized) state, that still doesn't say that meat should go to the men. In fact, when in a certain point industrialization causes the older men of the family to stay at home since they're not fit to work in the factory or the mine, the meat doesn't go to them. It goes to those who are working. I agree that some limitations might arise there: I can't recall how many hours of the day miner work took, but factories in the 19th century, until some laws were passes, had 14-16 hours a regular day of work, usually 7 days per week. That doesn't leave a lot of time to buy some meat, and make it edible. Since factories preferred children and women (because they can pay less to them. Fun fact: the wage difference between men and women haven't changed much since women entered the city labor force in the 14th-15th century in the Western world), it's only logical to me that they had less access to meat. But I can't see it as a result of direct discrimination. This has so much more to do to labor and industrialization, IMHO.

Anyway, back to point. The first time that the English Poor Law was changed since 1620 was in 1834 (or so). Because of hedging processes and the industrialization there were a lot more poor who fled into the cities trying to find jobs. There were some sort of shelters, in even yet more horrible terms than the factories, and you'd really have to be despite to get into one - though it did get you some sort of shelter, in the most basic sense of "roof over one's head". And it was a lot harder to "prove" you're poor after that amendment passed. I think that when you talk of so much more population who's more close to starving than malnutrition during that very specific time, most of them young (under 20), getting the gender argument clear out of all of this is very risky and problematic.

ION. Any chance DW's Doomsday will ever NOT make me cry? Please? I caught the very last 10 minutes of it and I was in tears after 6 seconds, on the clock.

This made me laugh, so I'm sharing: My friend AndreAnna's blog, in which she and her husband video the adventure of cleaning behind the couch. They have two toddlers and a dog.

I don't think the author is claiming that it's a result of direct discrimination, just another example of the pattern she's pointing out.

Maybe I should read the book, but right now, even the pattern doesn't sound like a causative link to me.

So far, I'm not sure what's supposed to be causing what. In this chapter, it's just a pattern.

The Tundra Rap

SO good! The Boosh is genius incarnate, times two. The Spirit of Jazz, the Eel man, Charlie Made of Bubble Gum - extreme, fantastic weirdness.

Spent an afternoon with my sister and niece at my grandmother's. My niece is awesome, at the age of 2 (she currently loves exploiting the comedy value of anything she does or says that we find funny), but spending more than an hour at a time with my sister makes me feel somewhat pointless. Blah. Thankfully, I can focus on my niece very seriously asking her mum which of them was going to carry "my baby brother or sister" to the car (given that the baby-brother-or-sister in question is still biologically linked to her mother, that was sort of a given).

My friend AndreAnna's blog, in which she and her husband video the adventure of cleaning behind the couch. They have two toddlers and a dog.

That's awesome. My favorite, "Is this really... is that a kiwi, or a... it's a lemon. It's a petrified lemon!"

I'm sorting through my food to try to find something that I can make for dinner without having to go grocery shopping. Why do I have eight cans of pinto beans and a total of three cans of all other kinds of beans? Also, what can I make with pinto beans?

Beans on toast?

Tostada (if you have salsa or salsa ingredients and tortilla)

Faux Torta (Beans with salsa on toast if you don't have tortilla)

Beans and rice ?

Dear class mate and a friend:

I like you and think you're great. Now would you please, please, please come out of the closet already? I don't have a Gaydar, yet, darling, you're way too obvious.

Seriously. I see you watching other boys with a very familiar look for couple of months now. Give the both of us a break, OK?

Love you very much, but for God's sake, come out already or I'll scream,
Me

P.S.: do so in the next month and I'll hook you up with a very awesome friend of mine.