another weird thing about beer is that it has weird masculinity connections to it. “ya i’ll get a beer, i don’t want none of them girly drinks” Jimothy, you’re drinking wheat juice with a 5% alcohol content and my mixed, fruity, “girly” drink is 40% alcohol and tastes great
O.KAY *CRACKS KNUCKLES* I AM ABOUT TO GIVE YOU AN EDUCATION
BEER IS TRADITIONALLY A WOMAN’S DRINK, IT IS THE MOST FEMALE OF ALL OF THE DRINKS. FOR THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF YEARS, BEER WAS MADE AT HOME BY WOMEN, TO BE CONSUMED BY WOMEN AND CHILDREN–IT WAS ACTUALLY A SOURCE OF NUTRIENTS FOR MANY HOUSEHOLDS. WOMEN CREATED THE CRAFT OF BEER, AND FOR MOST OF HUMAN HISTORY THAT IS WHO YOU’D BUY IT FROM: MANY WOMEN MADE ADDITIONAL INCOME BY BREWING AND SELLING BEER FROM HOME. IT WASN’T UNTIL THE ERA OF INDUSTRIALIZATION THAT BEER BEGAN TO BE BREWED IN FACTORIES. AND ONCE BEER WAS BEING BREWED ON A LARGE SCALE, IT MADE TO START MARKETING IT TO ALL THE MALE FACTORY WORKERS WHO SUDDENLY HAD EXTRA INCOME. HENCE AN AGGRESSIVE MARKETING CAMPAIGN TO RE-BRAND BEER, A DRINK INTRINSICALLY TIED WITH WOMEN’S HISTORY, AS A ‘MASCULINE’ BEVERAGE.
EVEN BETTER, FEMALE BREWSTERS WERE THE ORIGINAL WICKED OLD WITCH. THE TROPES WE COMMONLY ASSOCIATE WITH STEREOTYPICAL WITCHES ARE ACTUALLY BASED ON THE TRADITIONAL BREWSTER. CAULDRONS & HOT STEAMING POTIONS = BEER BREWING. THE WITCH’S HAT: BELIEVE IT OR NOT POINTY HATS WERE ACTUALLY WORN BY BREWSTERS WHEN SELLING THEIR PRODUCT AT MARKETS: THE ENORMOUS HEADGEAR HELPED THEM STAND OUT, AND CLEARLY TOLD EVERYONE ‘YO MOTHERFUCKA GET YOUR BEER HERE’.
CATS AS FAMILIARS: CATS WERE COMMONLY USED TO PREVENT RODENTS FROM GETTING INTO THE WHEAT. EVEN THE BROOMSTICK IS RELATED TO BEER: A BUNDLE OF TWIGS RESEMBLING A BROOM WAS USED AS AD FOR ALEHOUSES
so basically, beer is the ultimate woman’s and witch’s drink
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fuck u guys, i didn’t spend 20 min fact checking for 3 notes
I am impressed at this much knowledge
Also, anthropologists say there is much evidence that women invented agriculture, and that the first semi-permenant agricultural villages were established for the primary purpose of facilitating beer-brewing.
That’s right: Civilization was invented by women. For beer.
I love this. Everything toxic about western male identity can be traced back to some sort of caveman ad campaign.
LISTEN UP MY BITCHES THERE IS MORE!
i love it when sexists use caveman ‘it’s just biology’ to justify misogyny because there’s growing evidence that ancient humans split childcare evenly. to be precise, men were probably in charge of majority of child care, due to the fact that through pregnancy women already put in disproportionate effort to reproduction: even distribution of labor is evolutionarily advantageous.
a lot of what we ‘know’ about ancient humans is the interpretations of male scientists looking at the past through the lens of a modern patriarchal society. as womens’ voice become more heard, within and outside of the field, we’re getting new interpretations that are based on science and not prejudice.
ancient ‘Venus’ figurines, some of the oldest artworks in existence. so named for the ‘ideal woman,’ the roman goddess of beauty, as it was assumed they were made through male carvers (google ‘the male gaze’), and therefore erotic.
NOPE
a newer (and way more compelling) theory is that they are self-depictions by female artists. ancient humans didn’t have mirrors, obviously. notice the way the breasts and stomachs bulge? that’s what happens when you look down at your own body. instead of the male gaze, these figurines come from the female’s self-gaze, so to speak–it is from women’s literal viewpoint of their own bodies.
society insists on sexualizing women, but these statues were probably meant to reflect womanhood, fertility, and motherhood.
most of history is written and interpreted by men. it’s not that men have more influenced the world, it’s that the spectacular contributions of women have been erase. Women’s absence in history is artificially created by men.
Kimchi and Justice 