I call myself a feminist — but I also call myself a drinker.
Are all drinkers feminists?
NY Mag thinks so — and makes a point which resonates more with my 22-year-old experience than any intro to women’s studies course ever has or will.
“My point here is that the closing of the gender gap isn’t about men—needing to compete with men or wanting to feel like men. It’s about women going after the things they want and feeling that alcohol, variously, can help them. If men come into the picture at all, it’s only because what women sometimes want is” sex, the final frontier of gender equality, and the socially sanctified follies of alcohol set the stage perfectly for the type of sex women may want but fear is unacceptable to seek.”
