First of all, Bonnie, I think that it is hilarious that you used your Easy-Bake Oven to melt your Barbie dolls! Oh, the irony! It has taken me awhile to get into Pink Think. Like Jeni said, I am just from a different era. With single-parent households becoming more prevalent, it is just becoming necessary for kids to learn the ins and outs of cooking and caring for themselves. It took me a few days to break my paradigm and realize that this book is not discouraging kids to learn how to cook and care for themselves (which I interpret as becoming self sufficient) but it is critiquing a cultural phenomenon which has historically forced women to assume the task of caretaker to treat men as the "King-Emperor" of the home (158). For example, do you guys remember the part on page 129 which discussed the idea for National Celebration of Womanhood Day? Helen Anderlin describes this day as the day that women would "wear her most frilly, feminine, dress...serve her husband breakfast in bed and 'tell him how great he is" (129). Well, this doesn't sound like a party to me; it sounds like hell. And...according to some of the other passages in the book, I don't see how that day would really differ from what was expected everyday...