mghackerlady parent
I do it to avoid being blamed, I don't know what you're on about. I've never cared that much about the semantics of how many cookies I ate (then again, I'm on hacker news so I might not be the best representation of the female populace)
I tend to do the cookie baking, so it'd be a little silly for me to be mad over someone eating them.
And for what it's worth, no one deserves blame for their cookie habits.