I need to get something off of my chest.
This is going to be difficult to say but…
I used to think that beer wasn’t a beverage for
women.
Man. That looks even worse typed out. I can feel the
bigotry pulsating right out of the words.
Yes, when I was a younger man, or boy, I thought
that beer was only for men. Reflecting back,
I don’t think I was alone in
thinking that.
This isn't quite the video I wanted, here is a link to the real one
If college has done one thing for me- one very
expensive thing- it has challenged the way I think. Right now, I am in a course
called Anthropology and we are studying sex and gender. Those two ideas are separate.
Biological sex is the anatomical end result of the
type of X and Y chromosomes you have. It determines the type of sexual organs
and hormones that your body will naturally produce.
Gender is much more complicated than your biological
sex. Why? Well, first we need to understand that people are taught gender. It
is something we are shown. Little boys are not born instantly liking sports and
things that are blue; little girls are not born loving dresses and things that
are pink. This is a culmination of society and their relationship with the
world. Nothing is natural about the way Western society- specifically America- thinks
gender should be applied.
So, the reason I just gave you a run-down is to
explain this: Beer is not a gender specific beverage.
It sounds so simple, it is simple. Yet, I can’t help
but think back to television ads I watched early on. I remember a lot of women
in bikinis finding men with beer attractive. I remember seeing men in movies
challenging each other to keg stands, and flip cup. I do remember girls with
red plastic cups in their hands, but never to the extent that the little
plastic cup was shown being chugged down by a bro.
Beer is only beer. People are people, everywhere.
And everyone deserves a nice beer.
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