Martel and I had a discussion a month ago today about chocolate and its effects on people in general, especially women's tendiency to go batshit over anything chocolate related. Chocolate has a psychoactive substance in it, several actually, that affect mood, attitude, etc (
www.chocolate.org). So we had this big long disucssion over dinner about chocolate's effects on people in general, how there were lots of people out there who might even be "addicted to chocolate" in the same way one can be "addicted to caffeine." So, we did an expirement- I was to not eat chocolate for a month.
My first response when he suggested this was "OMG no way!" at which point he said "well, If someone said 'OK, you can't eat corn for a month' you probably wouldn't care, so why care about eating chocolate?" Point taken. So, I have not eaten chocolate for a month, and you know what? I don't miss it at all. I mean, sure, chocolate tastes good, but a month ago I was all "OMG CHOCOLATE GIMME GIMME GIMME" and now I really would rather expand my tastebuds by eating something else.
So why, if I now am so impartial to chocolate, was I so wound up about it? Was it because of the substances in chocolate? Or perhaps because all chocolate anything is marketed to women, wrapped up in a little package of "chocolate makes you feel good, chocolate is what you should eat because you're PMSing, etc etc"? I, for one, think that marketing had a LOT to do with my attitude towards eating chocolate, especially with my insistance on having chocolate every day around my period. Do any of y'all have a major chocolate bone? Have you ever thought about *why* you have it? Perhaps tried to do without chocolate for a while? Why, as women, are we so fixated on chocolate?