The First Intelligent Thought I've Had in Response to Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me

It occurred to me today that in his documentary Super Size Me, Morgan Spurlock, perhaps inadvertently, reinforces antiquated gender norms. In the course of the film, Spurlock introduces the audience to two important members of his private life: his mother and his girlfriend. In some earlier scenes, he describes the way things used to be, when families cooked at home and ate in restaurants only on the rarest and most special occasions. Most of his own childhood memories of his mother, he says, are of his mother in the kitchen. Flash forward twenty-something years. Spurlock introduces us to Alexandra Jamieson, then girlfriend, now fiancée, long time vegan chef and holistic health counselor. So Spurlock swapped his healthy home cooking mom for a woman who cooks for a living. I am not trying to call into question Spurlock's motivations or to insinuate that he allows his personal life to influence his objectivity; I simply feel that beneath the obvious theme of his film, Spurlock has allowed old-fashioned gender roles to fester. In the film, Spurlock presents himself as a man who depends on the women in his life to keep him healthy. As women, over the past few decades, have made their exodus from the kitchen to the office, they have had less time and energy to focus on keeping themselves and their Morgan Spurlocks healthy. So I guess my question would have to be... of all the fast food tycoons in the world, how many go home to a wifey and a home-cooked meal? Discuss.