“Men are naturally seen as having more authority, whether or not they deserve it.”
“”I think it’s easier for people to believe that I don’t know things”
“I can’t really separate being a person of color from being a woman,” said Rao. “Sometimes as a critic that made me invisible in a way that was really beneficial. I was trying to pass unnoticed. Especially if I was with another woman of color, I felt like sometimes hosts didn’t notice us as much and servers didn’t pay as much attention to us. Even though it’s not ideal, it worked in my favor.”
“inextricably tied to each part of her identity, not just her gender. “I think it’s a conflux of things. I’m also a racialized person, also a queer person, also young, so a lot of these things intersect to really inform the way other people perceive me,””
“For Rodell, there is some tension between her roles as a mother and a critic. ” . “There’s so much written and talked about already in terms of how hard it is for women to have any kind of high-powered or time-consuming career and have a family, let alone one that takes you out of the house at dinner time every night,” she said. “I don’t regret it because it is the way that I supported my family.” Still, she wonders if male critics get the same kinds of questions and guilt trips. “I’m sure that it’s tough on [male critics’] family too, but I do think that it’s a fairly new phenomenon that men are really expected to participate in the domestic life of their families.”
“I don’t think that there’s gender equality at this point to say that there’s a lot of partnerships out there where the male partner would be happy to do that.”
“Not everyone had stories of […] sexism at the ready. “I don’t feel discriminated against, and I don’t feel that people have given me special treatment because I’m a woman. I’ve always been a feminist, and I think it’s a really good thing that I don’t feel in my line of work that my gender has stood in my way at all.”
“Ho has noticed from the mail she receives that some do assume she’s the one with a bias — against white men.”
“He said, ‘It seems like he had many of the same conclusions you did, so I’m starting to think what you said may have been true.’ I was just floored.”
“Women have better palates than men,”
quotes from: “No one suspected me”: Women food critics dish on dining out for a living. Salon, 2 Feb 2020
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