Chris Matthews Finds It 'Weird' When Husbands Cook Dinner (VIDEO)

Perhaps Chris Matthews just had a momentary lapse when he made the following statement Wednesday evening about how "weird" it is when husbands cook dinner:

I don’t watch television the way most regular people do, meaning most people come home, they’re tired they go in the living room, maybe they watch T.V. while their wife, in some cases, making dinner, or the husband — in some weirder cases — is making dinner.

The statement feels so anachronistic that we aren't sure how to react. Is this 1952? HuffPost Food understands that the stereotype of the wife cooking dinner might still be the norm for many (and that's okay -- if you are a wife and you like to cook then rock on!), but we are way beyond the point of it being "weird" for husbands to cook.

So we hereby declare, husbands of the world, please cook Chris Matthews a delicious meal. It sounds like he could use it, if for no other reason than to be brought into the 21st century.

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Comments

[rleb2002]

03:02 PM on 03/30/2012

JUDGES, CONGRESSMEN , SENATORS, N ALL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYES, have, FREE HEAL INSURANCE. " PAID WITH OUR TAXES!! "OUR TAXES"!! SEE?? AND THEY in the Hi , POSITION, THEY HAVE, don't want the rest of PEOPLE, ( CITIZEN WHO PAY THEIR INSURANCE, To HAVE, THE SAME ADVANTAGE) WHY!! WHY?? WHY??? WHO ARE THEM TO WANT TO HAVE TOSE PRIVILEGES???DO THEY BILIVE THEY ARE? BLU BLOD??ARISTOCRACY??THEY ARE NOTHING, ESPECIAL, without us TAXPAYERS!! TO DISCRIMINATE AGAINS ALL THE PEOPLE, WHO ARE PAYING < THEIR SALARIES INCLUDING

[RobtBrock]

11:47 PM on 02/21/2012

It appears that Matthews hasn't progressed since Ozzie & Harriet.

[epsi1on]

11:27 PM on 02/21/2012

I love cooking dinner for my fiancee, and it's usually me doing the cooking (80+% ofthe time) but what is better is cooking together.

[henriette and hube]

06:50 PM on 02/21/2012

One could just say Chris Matthews is weird and stop right there.

[plantbasedpunk]

02:11 PM on 02/21/2012

I am a man, but I am definitely the cook in my relationship. And a damn good one if I do say so myself. We cook together quite frequently, though. I wouldn't trade that time in the kitchen together for the best programming TV has to offer. Well, maybe short of a new season of Firefly.

[henriette and hube]

06:49 PM on 02/21/2012

I love to see a guy in the kitchen. There's just something very special about it which I can't really put into words.

You sound like a very confident and romantic guy. Congrats are in order.

[Lmurwood]

11:45 AM on 02/21/2012

Is this the 1950's?

[Targetdog]

09:41 AM on 02/21/2012

One tip for all you male cooks, "Don't fry bacon nekkid!"

[MorpheusXNYC]

05:10 PM on 02/24/2012

One pro tip from a male chef for bacon lovers - make bacon in the microwave. Cooks much faster than in the pan, comes out PERFECTLY crispy and evenly cooked every single time.

Just make sure you cover the bacon with a paper towel as you don't want the grease shooting outwards and coating the inside of the microwave oven.

[Targetdog]

09:31 AM on 02/21/2012

I am a man and I cook dinner five to six nights a week minimum. Perhaps Chris hasn't met the right "cooking man." I know my boyfriend has!

[VA Jill]

07:51 PM on 02/20/2012

I guess you are weird, Chris.....I don't find it strange at all. Sure, my dad couldn't boil water without directions, but my first husband was a chef and my second could whomp up a passable meal and great barbecue. Maybe you need to go back tot he 50s, Chris.

[Ganji]

10:06 PM on 02/20/2012

it's sad that people demonize him for having a different world view and you know what I wasn't around in the 50s but i bet it was better than then this hyper feminized weak liberal mess we call the USA now

[plantbasedpunk]

02:08 PM on 02/21/2012

I think by saying "it was better" then is assuming a little too much. And we have evolved since then. Both technologically and socially. Gender equality - as with racial equality - is just one of the next steps in our social evolution. Part of that evolution is ridding ourselves of gender roles and stereo types that have held women back in the past. We've come a long way from snatching up females from neighboring tribes. And we've still got a long way to go.

[morgansher]

03:39 PM on 02/20/2012

Heh.. The "good cook" genes we got in our family came from our Hungarian born father who churned out traditional dishes like chicken paprikash, mushroom soup, goulash, and grated noodles for Easter, birthdays or when special friends came to visit.

[deweydecimal]

03:15 PM on 02/20/2012

Why? Because television surfing is such a macho extreme sport!

[El Chingaso]

03:07 PM on 02/20/2012

Oops. Matthews was "insensitive" -- again. Suspend him or, better yet, fire him.

[procopios]

10:20 AM on 02/20/2012

I assure you, the results are a lot weirder when my wife does the cooking instead of me.

[Haastnooit]

10:16 AM on 02/20/2012

Watch it Chris, you better start moving with the times quickly or your in danger of becoming irrelevant. Both my grandpa's cooked and if they were alive they would be 90 and 100+.

[CaveatMagnusFrater]

05:42 PM on 02/20/2012

I believe he passed out of relevancy a few years ago.

[420]

08:34 AM on 02/20/2012

Chris my God,
I am man in his 50s and
splits the cooking at home with my wife. I love to cook and plan meals. Being Greek does not hurt the issue and my Wife is Italian. Go out to eat? No one can top our cooking and we have left overs.