OK, OK, I know… they’re only providing material for their readers to have a hate-wank and sputter out SLUT! on their orgasm, and what on earth could possibly be the point of a picture of a woman if she’s not wearing lipstick? Still, it’s interesting, the “trading lipstick in for lager” way of putting it. It basically translates into “women don’t care what men think of them, like they should do,” while the text of the article insinuates that women are only getting drunk to prove something… to men, presumably. There’s no way they’re just doing it because they like it! See, insecure men? You don’t have to worry. Every single thing a woman does is ALL ABOUT YOU and the world is righted on its axis once more.

Interestingly enough, if the McCains had accounted for this trend, they could have taken advantage of Cindy McCain’s position as chairperson of the regional Anheiser-Busch distributorship to focus their campaign strategy on beer drinking fans such as yourselves.

*ducks*

I’m kidding….I’m kidding :D

Or in actuality I came home, climbed into bed, got some much needed sleep and woke up to my husband making me breakfast and my kids bouncing on my bed saying “Mommy! Time to get up”. Close though. I could definitely see the confusion.

Nice to see that the Sun still has tip top journalistic sense, or something.

And Holly, my hair is just up :-) Although for anyone who’s following in the crowds, I have cut some serious straight-across bangs since then, and grown the length very long. This is important information you all should know.

In other news, I caught this blog post on the same article, and I love the point made at the end.

I happen to have a female body. It does not follow that my every vice is part of some misguided attempt to achieve gender parity. I had a beer last night, and I have to say, it wasn’t a particularly gendered experience for me.

The author’s friends drink a lot; being young and single in New York, like living in a house with a couch on the front porch in a Midwestern college town, is a context in which someone is likely to drink more than the average person. I’ve always felt that people were more willing to grant the concept of life stages for men than for women; that dude crumpled over in the frat house is just going through his few years of drunken stupification; but the 24-year-old woman in an LES apartment who’s had a few too many Martinis– well, she’s ruined.

Werd, werd, werd.

Yeah, they seem to be unable to disapprove of behavior while still approving of the gender equality behind it. I get really sick of talking to folks like that.

Also, I like how the Sun article is all like, “What are they thinking? No one’s going to want to date them now!!!” Yes, Sun, everything women do is for attracting men. For them to do something for their own pleasure instead of for male pleasure is literally unthinkable.