What We Talk About When We Talk About “Bitch Beer” | PUNCH
“In her interviews, Darwin asked male bar-goers for their impressions of women who preferred these beers. The ensuing commentary ranged from corny sexualized rhetoric (“bet she likes to be on top”) to hypothetical marriage proposals. She argues that when women become knowledgeable about things that men revere, it’s treated not as something to respect, but as something “cute and sexy and quaint and tokenized,” she says. “You’re always [treated as] the exception to the rule if you’re a woman who knows a shit-ton about beer.””
craft beer’s bro-code is still enforcing outdated typecasts on what we define as good beer, bad beer and who drinks which.
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