Now craft beer is sexist! Dear god. (TW: Slate)

yelirbear · 2015-07-06T17:55:29+00:00

I'm just going to pretend this is high quality satire.

2015-07-06T19:02:46+00:00

In a world seething with innumerable craft breweries, some producers resort to bawdy puns to catch someone's attention for their product on the shelf.

Big deal. They've nailed religion relentlessly for years and it stands to reason that eventually every touchy subject will get hit. There's Master Bates ale and there's even a "Brown Note" ale with a dude on the cover in dirty underwear.

Nothing is safe in that space.

xNOM · 2015-07-06T17:53:01+00:00

ugh...just because it has to do with sex and men, it's sexism.

leifblower · 2015-07-06T21:06:20+00:00

Women drink nearly 32 percent of all craft beer sold in America. Why name your beer something that at least a third of your potential customers might feel uncomfortable ordering?

Maybe because it might be appealing to the other 68 percent of consumers? Seriously, the market will determine whether these beer names are profitable. Let these companies have their free speech and let the consumer decide. Plus not all women find sexually suggestive beer labels (or sexually suggestive things in general) offensive -- a lot of women actual like that kind of thing.

pnw_diver · 2015-07-06T19:19:28+00:00

Why don't we just cede control of thought and expression to angry feminists? They seem intent on censoring and silencing anything they don't like.

Feminism is a totalitarian movement. Feminists seek to control completely "permissible" speech and expression and to define "impermissible". Increasingly, feminism is incompatible with liberal democracy, because feminism requires a second-class citizen group (men) and Constitution-breaching restrictions on civil rights.

eaton80 · 2015-07-06T18:38:43+00:00

Down with the Pubtiarchy!!!

electricalnoise · 2015-07-06T23:50:57+00:00

The problem isn’t that these labels hint at sex. It’s that they and others of their ilk almost never refer to mutually respectful sex.

With good reason. Nobody's gonna buy "missionary with the lights off IPA", because it's a stupid idea and it's boring sex.

2015-07-07T04:44:31+00:00

Yes yes, women who often do things like order cakes shaped like giant, blood-engorged cocks are just wincing from the misogyny of ordering a Raging Bitch.

FerretHydrocodone · 2015-07-06T21:05:40+00:00

And feminists wonder why they don't get taken seriously....hmmmm...

Wargame4life · 2015-07-06T19:32:52+00:00

i said it before and ill say it again anywhere where hipsters or people with low social value congregate or get involved feminists will try and peddle their bullshit.

they dont try this shit at motorcycle conventions, where women get their tits out and wear virtually nothing, because the "crowd" arent self hating nerds, they will properly tell them to "go fuck themselves"

Lethn · 2015-07-06T21:31:03+00:00

There are 3500 craft breweries according to his own article, with no data on number of beer labels but he cites about 10 "sexist" labels, and concludes that there is a problem with sexism. That means if each brewery put out ONE beer, then about 0.33% of beer labels are sexist. This is not what I would call anything more than an aberration.

And this is assuming that everything he claims is sexist or "anti-woman" in fact is.

Ted8367 · 2015-07-07T01:39:40+00:00

Isn't there a feminist beer called Male Tears?

If not, I expect there will be soon.

Ted8367 · 2015-07-07T01:45:22+00:00

The problem isn’t that these labels hint at sex. It’s that they and others of their ilk almost never refer to mutually respectful sex.

How about Consensual Ale. That's bound to get them going, right?

Scimitar66 · 2015-07-07T23:06:18+00:00

Thanks for using archive!

2015-07-06T19:01:23+00:00

The problem isn’t that these labels hint at sex. It’s that they and others of their ilk almost never refer to mutually respectful sex. It’s ironic that the one beer name Flying Dog has seen fit to retire is Doggy Style Pale Ale, which is a cheesy thing to call a beer, but at least the act referenced isn’t inherently degrading to, or unpleasurable for, women. Sex and sexism aren’t the same thing, which is why there’s nothing wrong with Sierra Nevada calling its new pilsner Nooner. Go ahead and evoke consensual, mutually beneficial daytime screwin’ all you like. But the vast majority of beer-land sex references objectify women, or worse.

Sounds like a fun guy. I think I'll invite him to my next barbeque.

Corn-Tortilla · 2015-07-07T00:17:46+00:00

Hey feminists...

Stay the fuck away from our beer, and go make us some sammiches. Make yourselves useful for a change!

pirate6728 · 2015-07-06T17:11:05+00:00

Nothing to do with mens rights

Title	Now craft beer is sexist! Dear god. (TW: Slate)
Author	ctlawguy
Upvotes	76
Comments	30
Date	July 6, 2015 5:09 PM UTC (11 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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