NEW YORK (VINnews) — A professor of medicine in Mexico was suspended Wednesday after suggesting that women learn to cook to avoid being beaten or attacked by men.
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Dr. Gerardo de León, who teaches at the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes, was reviewing a case study of a 43-year-old woman who had been stabbed in the stomach by her husband because she had reportedly burned his meal.
‘I don’t know, if they don’t know how to cook, why are they getting married?’ he said jocularly. ‘One arrives hungry and it’s upsetting there is no dinner because she burned it. That is the recommendation of the day, learn to cook before getting married.’
The doctor’s comments sparked an uproar among female students taking his class. One of them tweeted: ‘Doctor, wouldn’t it be better if we learned not to lose our sanity so as not to stab our wives’? The doctor responded: ‘that is your recommendation, mine is that they learn to cook.’
The university responded by suspending the professor and stating that ‘there is and will not be any tolerance for any form of violence.’ The university added that it ‘repudiates all sexist manifestations, as well as any act of harassment, discrimination or violence.”
The Autonomous University of Aguascalientes announced that de León would remained sidelined while it investigates the matter.
My 2 wives learned to cook and I never beat them which proves that the professor is right.
This article is so poignant to be on VIN. Food/ cooking is a big part of our culture. That being said; Lechaim and Labriut!
Aguascalientes literally means “hot waters” in Spanish. And this Professor deserved the hot water he is in.