Beer Infinity Beer, Brewing & Beyond
| The summer of slow blogging continues, and today’s anemic offering is a brief rebuttal to this silly article in Slate about sexism, rife in brewing, in which the subhead reads “There are gross puns and derogatory illustrations on far too many beer labels. The misogyny needs to stop.” Writer Will Gordon trots through the case of some pretty egregious examples of sexism, but not, however, very many of them–and herein lies the problem. The existence of something does not make it a problem.
Take for example the case of Irvine, CA, which had two murders in 2013 (I can’t find 2014 numbers, but this is an example so 2013 will suffice). The number of murders we consider acceptable is zero, of course, but at what point does the murder rate become a problem; you know, a situation that needs to be corrected as opposed to a situation of imperfection that is the state of the real world? It’s a lot more than two, that’s for sure, because in 2013, Irvine had the fewest murders of any large city in Am … |
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