Women Explaining Their Unfair Hate for Cooking with Kya: A Facebook Thread

Photo of Kya, khiyah.reneeee, host of TikTok show Cooking with Kya, from a Facebook post.

This article is about Kya’s cooking show. On Facebook, a user prompted women to “explain why you hate [Kya Renee] so much.” What followed was a thread that garnered over 2.3 thousand responses, many of which were shady on the side of women. These comments are concerning Kya’s cooking show. I’ve highlighted one of the more provocative comments that seems to reflect the overall position of the women who do hate Kya. Also, if you’ve missed it, Kya is the host of the viral TikTok cooking show Cooking with Kya, taking the internet by storm. The talented home chef Kya has recently hit the milestone of 1 million followers on TikTok for good reason.

Why Women Hate Cooking with Kya

In the above comment, Facebook user Brasianna argues that “No one hates [Kya],” but they do “… hate the attention she receives for doing something EVERYONE does daily…” Brasianna’s language is oddly gender-neutral for the topic. To her point, not every “they” (people watching Cooking with Kya) hate the attention Kya gets. They’re the ones who give it to her. Brasianna continues on, arguing that a man receiving the same meal at home would be ungrateful but watch Kya’s show. She ends by saying, “So if that same man goes crazy behind a meal he can’t even eat, the woman gets jealous of the attention he gives to HER.” “Jealous” is the keyword here.

To begin with, any man receiving a home-cooked meal from the woman he’s in love with values that meal over something on the internet. A woman getting “jealous” over a meal a man can’t eat is insane.

Facebook user Dorian… noted that cooking for men is not something a great deal of women are willing to do.

On the point of Kya’s getting attention for “doing something EVERYONE does daily…” this is an attempt by Brasianna (and many like her who raised similar points) to downplay Kya’s hard work in the kitchen. It is an attempt to lessen the impact she’s had on popular culture and sheer delusion.

Facebook user Dorian commented and noted that cooking for men is not something a great deal of women are willing to do. Many women have been chanting, “I don’t cook. I don’t clean.” That statement has become a new-age female badge of honor, and women have a right to that. But Brasianna should avoid pretending every woman is making home-cooked meals for their man because they simply are not. What Kya is doing — cooking and being happy to do so while uplifting men — is unique and attractive to men who have been beaten down by miserable misandrists on the internet for simply existing.

The Takeaway

There are over 2.3 thousand comments on the thread inquiring about (some) women’s hate for Kya, and many of the women downplay their hate for Kya, while simultaneously throwing shade on Kya’s dishes. Men in the comments support Kya’s mission to share her love of food and love of love with all, even her haters. It is her warm, welcoming personality that makes men stay around long enough to find out what’s for dinner. Although many may dislike her just for being herself, as long as she’s around, men will be there to support her. Unlike women who are not of her caliber, Kya knows big gestures — and small — go appreciated by men, who demonstrate that kindness will be returned tenfold.

Check out Cooking with Kya on TikTok.

This article was written by Jermaine Reed, MFA, the Editor-in-Chief of The Reeders Block, who also works an Adjunct College Professor. Join the email list to get notifications on new articles and books. This article is 100% human-written. And remember, if you see an error, that’s what makes us human. Subscribe and share.