Saturday, November 10, 2007
Observation Journal #5
So usually when I go to a restaurant with my boyfriend, I will order a steak, and he orders a salad. The waitress or waiter always hands me the salad and him the steak. I don't know if they think that girls don't eat steaks, or that boys can't eat salads, or what. It just has always been like that. Last night I ordered the salad and he ordered the steak at a well known restaurant chain, and for the first time, they actually asked who ordered what when it was brought out. I know this isn't exactly life changing, but for once I felt like I should have ordered the steak, and I wouldn't have felt ashamed for doing so. Overall its pretty funny. I'm glad I could report something good for once though. :) I think I have been focusing on the bad more than the good in these observation journals, which wasn't exactly the point of them. I think I should have thought more about what happened that was good, instead of negative. I'll remember that if I ever have an assignment like this to do ever again.
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I am not surprised that whenever you ordered a steak it was given to your boyfriend. I think perhaps the ascribed femininity of a salad juxtaposed with the socially inherent masculinity of red meat made it so your server messed up your order. I think that this is an example of how things in American society, from cars to clothes, and even food are assigned some sort of intrinsic masculinity or femininity, even though they are objects.
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