“Wine. Immediately.” The depressing reason so many women today drink (Excerpt)
Source: vox.com
Kristi Coulter
August 23, 2016
I’m newly sober and I’m wearing unwise (but cute, so cute) shoes at the farmers market. It’s a beautiful summer day. I trip, cracking my phone, blood-staining the knees of my favorite jeans, and scraping both my palms.
Naturally, as soon as I’ve dusted myself off, I post about it on Facebook. Three women who don’t know I’ve quit drinking comment quickly:
“Wine. Immediately.”
“Do they sell wine there?”
“Definitely wine. And maybe new shoes.”
Have I mentioned that it’s morning when this happens? On a weekday? This isn’t one of those nightclub farmers markets. And the women aren’t the kind of beleaguered, downtrodden creatures you imagine drinking to get through the day. They’re pretty cool chicks, the kind people ridicule for having First World problems. Why do they need to drink?
Well, maybe because even cool chicks are still women. And there’s no easy way to be a woman, because, as you may have noticed, there’s no acceptable way to be a woman. And if there’s no acceptable way to be the thing you are, then maybe you drink a little. Or a lot.
http://www.vox.com/2016/8/23/12584530/women-alcohol-wine