When regaling co-workers about my vacation, I’ve been embarrassed to express enthusiasm about my trip to the Napa wineries. It feels unladylike to admit that I enjoy getting slightly tipsy on a glass or two of yummy wine. And after living with Sally Six-Pack and Barbara Boozehound (*not their real names) for four months, I concur that not all female drinkers are alluring, slim, witty, sexy pictures of robust physical and mental health, as vodka ads would have us believe.
But in moderation, anything that makes women fun, carefree, and flirty as opposed to our usually neurotic, nagging selves has got to be healthy. And the perils that drinking does to our delicate constitutions, reproductive organs, and feeble brains are often exaggerated in the media, as Ann Robinson argues in the Guardian.
So bottoms up, ladies.
(In researching this post, I happened upon this shortlist of alcoholic slang (here), and saw that one of those slang words is a complete non sequitur. What in the world does the fifth word have to do with alcoholism?)
