Cake

100 words

Why don’t men make a fuss about cake… or cocktails? We’re led to think it’s women who go ‘ooooh, red velvet, ooooh, belini’ under some kind of spell and these – admittedly toothsome – things knock out our ability for lucid, angry thoughts. They tell us that women can’t hope to conspire without rendering themselves insensible on baked goods or porn star martinis. And that they should, when allowed to gather and coo, be so happy with their Victoria sponge or blend of seaweed and artisan botanicals that they forget about all the things that need to change, such as the patriarchy.

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