Her whole family is like that though? Her dad is super old-fashioned, someone posted an article here not too long ago about his job. He's very into old fashioned gender roles. And they are all about getting married before living together (alone) as well. Grace is the same, you just know from how she sees herself and her future. She has mentioned it quite a lot of times that she can't wait to get pregnant and have children and make them lunch and stuff. Clearly very standard gender roles - women in the kitchen, cooking and cleaning and taking care of the children. But to be honest if she's okay with that and she does seem excited for this than isn't it fine? I know women who are like that and are actually really happy, and they are not forced into it. I am all about freedom for women but I also don't like that we put women down for choosing this role themselves. We will never know what she would have wanted if she had a different (non-religious) family, maybe she would be different maybe not. We will never know. I grew up in a very traditional household as well, religious, stay at home mom and dad working and taking care of the 'man-things'. My mom is very open to different things, but my dad is definitely more traditional (he's doing his best to be open-minded about others, but for himself he still feels like he needs to take care of the car for examplei do kinda worry about the boyfriend if they did meet via the church as many boys/men i know in the church are staunchly pro life as well as value virginity, servitude and old fashioned gender roles that really suppress womens rights and reinforce them as the lesser in society and it does worry me that Grace feels the same...
In the end we will never know if she's okay with it b ecause she doens't know better/different or if she's really excited about it because she wants it herself, but if she's happy about making lunch for her kids some day we should support that.
Also about people saying her that she never explains anything about the food/her experience - it's so true! I don't know who here watches Jenn Im but she always gives such an incredibly description of food! She's such a joy to watch ("adds a nice crunch", "a bit of an umami flavour that I love", "I love the texture because it feels like (x)"). Such a different from Grace and she doesn't have a baking degree