Comments on: Hide the Liquor — The Women Are Coming!

By: sarah.of.a.lesser.god

sarah.of.a.lesser.god — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:28:11 +0000

@peenerbambina: Yeah, I do know the paper's rep. It's like the New York Post here in my hometown of NYC. The reason I do think it's important to pay attention to even the most ridiculous "journalism" is that there are people who take it seriously.

By: Froufrou

Froufrou — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:52:38 +0000

um, sorry, didn’t mean to generalise that badly.But I do apologise
I’m also a native Brit, if that’s any help

By: peenerbambina

peenerbambina — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:34:23 +0000

Frou-Frou, I am a native Brit and I don’t have a fucked up relationship with drinking.
This article is bollocks, and most people I know would not wipe their arse on the Daily Mail or the Mirror. They are just about every -ist going, and offensive to so many people I wouldn’t know where to start. “Daily Mail reader” is code for “zenophobe” in many circles. Just wanted to point that out.

By: KateKari

KateKari — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:10:28 +0000

@Plum-Pie: Good thing we can just take a stroll down Beer Street instead! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Street) Because if you drink beer, you’ll be happy and healthy, not like those terribly gin-drinkers. Eighteenth-century reductivism ftw!

TGIF, Harpies. I plan to take a stroll down Beer Street myself after work. Hopefully I can restrain the violent impulses that are brewing (ha!) just beneath my lady-like librarian’s facade. Otherwise, well, I guess you’ll read about it in the papers.

By: Froufrou

Froufrou — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:16:55 +0000

Christ, they’ve been complaining about ladettes since the beginning of the nineties. It just doesn’t change.
Sure, I think the Brits have a bit of a fucked-up relation with drinking,which is not a good thing, obvs, but that’s all of them, not just the girls. Which everyone knows, but it’s easier to blame women for everything.

By: magpie_seven

magpie_seven — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:00:07 +0000

Point of Information:

Here in the UK the Mirror and the Daily Mail are considered by most people to be the worst kind of right wing arseholery, and a waste of perfectly good low-grade paper. They constantly and consistently exhibit extremely misogynistic views, and this “OH GOD- the winmmenz has learnt how to drink OH NOES” article has been cropping up bi-monthly in various disguises for about a year now.

By: Rachel_in_WY

Rachel_in_WY — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:17:57 +0000

We were just called “tomboys” back in the day…

But the “calming influence” comment reminds me of one argument against same sex marriage – that marriage has a calming and civilizing effect on men, but only if it’s marriage to a woman. Hence my favorite exchange in this debate:

Andrew Sullivan: “Since marriage is a civilizing force, then shouldn’t we want more people to be married?”
Pat Robertson: “Andrew, it’s not marriage that civilizes men, it’s women.”

So if women are losing their calming influence on drunk men, are they also losing their civilizing-through-marriage influence?

By: bellacoker

bellacoker — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:29:52 +0000

Bars are sooo much more fun than the bottle of vodka hidden behind the World Books, and, this is a giant plus, there are people to hit other than the children.

Yay! Progress!/snark

By: DangerMouse

DangerMouse — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:50:14 +0000

So, uh, men could never cope with life in the first place, it seems….

By: sarah.of.a.lesser.god

sarah.of.a.lesser.god — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:52:19 +0000

@PhDork: Yup, it’s presented exactly as it appeared. Amazing how the problem of women and drinking is all because women aren’t staying home to bear babies!