Mandy: Chocolate and Cultural Feminism

Cultural feminism is the idea that women are better than men because they are inherently more peaceful and endure different things like menstruation and a natural attraction toward Redbook. Although American cultural feminism was most popular in the early 1900s, it still exists today with many Mandys and can be best witnessed in the context of chocolate.

Mandy loves chocolate because it’s like a secret affair that she can talk about as much as she wants. Mandy loves and needs chocolate even though eating it means cheating on her diet; this creates an ongoing struggle that makes for copious conversation. To expunge the guilt, Mandys often congregate and eat chocolate together while discussing their decadence. Mandys often discuss chocolate as being something women inherently need to maintain mental stability (see numbers 3, 5 and 6 of the Top Ten Reasons I Love Chocolate). This conversation undoubtedly leads to the topic of PMS because there is no time that Mandy needs chocolate more than before her period. Mandys perpetuate the severity of PMS as yet another thing women are forced to deal with. From here, the discussion is bound to go to the topic of childbirth and its many tortures that women are strong enough to endure; therefore making women better than men due to natural differences.

Present Mandy with chocolate and the conversatin will undoubtedly go like this: Chocolate -> PMS -> Childbirth -> Women are better than Men