Forks were once called effeminate and sacrilegious. Italian clergy in the 11th century condemned them as an insult to God-given fingers, and 17th-century England mocked them as unmanly. A quick history of how absurd it is to gender everyday objects.
Forks are for women only. Now that may sound remarkably silly, and it is, but in the early days of forks they were considered needlessly luxurious and effeminate cutlery. Real men were supposed to eat with their hands or with a knife, not some prissy tined bauble picking daintily at tiny morsels. When dining forks made it to Italy in the 11th century, the clergy even called it sacrilegious, an affront to the fingers that God gave humanity. It wasn't until the 17th century when table forks made it to England, and there they faced the same ridicule for being soft and unmanly. All this is to say that needlessly gendering things is pretty stupid, and when you see your one racist uncle using a fork at the next family gathering, I invite you to congratulate him on being so progressive and getting more in touch with his feminine side.
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