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the baking reputation
I'm a girl, and I kinda like to bake stuff, because hey, it means I get desert. My question is this: I work with all guys. If I bake cookies or something and bring them into work, are the guys going to stop feeling like I'm "one of them" and start seeing me as this betty crocker homemaker type? We're all pretty laid back now, on the same level and everything, I don't want it to get weird.
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In my experience, people who bring food are appreciated by all, whether they be male or female. For instance, a guy in my dorm holds cake parties every week where he bakes a cake, then we all help him eat it. I don't think it really affects his masculinity. As a general rule, food == good.
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I don't think that baking cookies should affect the relationships that you have with those guys. It's not like your gonna start acting different around them right? if you like baking than bake away. Your co-workers will probably just wonder why you didn't make them cookies before!
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First off, chances are they don't see you as one of the guys anyway. I don't get why chicks always want to be "one of the guys" anyway. Do you see any guys wanting to be "One of the Girls"? Actually.... take that back... do you see any straight guys who want that? No. So, live with your gender.
As for the image, if I was getting fresh, free biscuits, I wouldn't care who made them. If they get too common, you will be seen as a big homemaker type, or at least someone with some serious personality dichotomy. It's allabout balance, and, as has been said, presentation.
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What do you work as? If you're a shop assistant or something then it's quite an easy image to get.
If you do bake stuff then don't broadcast the fact that you made it.Just don't make a big deal of it and they probably won't.
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Go for it... the guys may even surprise you by following your lead (some of us do get around in the kitchen... )! The laid-back presentation's a good idea, though: re-used tin or something lined with waxed paper is hygienic but unpretentious.
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I think it is all in the presentation. If you just have them in a box wrapped in wax paper and happen to pull them out while in another conversation, it probably will not be such a big deal. Then they will probably rave over them tasting homemade, etc.
If they are on a platter and all Martha Stewart in presentation, then yeah, welcome to the homemaker world.
On a whole though, it would be cool in and of itself just to have fresh homemade cookies no matter who has time to make them. I cannot see them making a separation judgement based off of your superior cooking skills. Envy maybe, but not putting you off.
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