I just stumbled across this post over at Granite Rants and I completely sympathize.
I do all of the cooking at home; my wife could burn water if left to it. You can grill, you can sear, you can broil... but as soon as you bake everyone's left eyebrow raises. And I too have heard the "I'd marry you" bit. Are that many women enslaved to their kitchens that they really need to gush about finding a "man who cooks"? I don't get it. I really don't. I cook because I like food... not because of some bizarre gender issue. And not because I'm indentured to my wife (I am, but that's not why I cook :-)
Some people — correction: most people — are just incapable of thinking outside of their own media-defined social roles. [end rant]