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Sociology people (or anyone smart) need your input
This is a conversation between me and a friend
her: Are you drinking Alize??? lol
me: yeah you got a problem with that lol... is it not manly enough for you....
her: I don't believe genderizing types of alcohol is a proficient method of differentiating between "manly" and "non-manly" labels and/or behaviours. What has the world come to?
anyone have a smart and succinct response?
her: Are you drinking Alize??? lol
me: yeah you got a problem with that lol... is it not manly enough for you....
her: I don't believe genderizing types of alcohol is a proficient method of differentiating between "manly" and "non-manly" labels and/or behaviours. What has the world come to?
anyone have a smart and succinct response?
Comments
haha
(I'm an idiot and have no decent input)
It's not so much of a method as it is an indicator or a sign. If you can reasonably establish that it is overwhelmingly males who drink Alize, then you can say that there's a fairly significant correlation between the kind of beverage (or brand or whatever) one drinks and one's gender.
For example, whenever I think of a particular beer, I get an image of its most likely drinker:
Molson Canadian -- an unshaven and ungroomed dude who likes hockey;
Stella -- a more refined individual who is perhaps educated and for whom drinking beer is more of an interest as opposed to a social-bonding experience;
etc.
It's not a certainty (they're only examples :embarassed:), but there's enough probability there for me to make reasonable judgements about who drinks what.
It's not as if the drinks automatically assign you to particular gender roles (i.e. of course it's not a method); rather it's that the genders and sub-categories within the genders align themselves with particular beverages.
You said males in your response, so all you have to do is prove that it's mostly males that drink Alize and perhaps that males tend to prefer Alize over other cognacs. Go for probability here (e.g. many male drink Alize) rather than certainty (e.g. all males drink Alize).
i remember my friend was making these drinks, super sweet, i almost puked and i was hardly buzzed, lol
So instead of establishing that it's a man's drink, all you have to establish is that it's a woman's drink, which is just as easy. The point is that though a drink does not determine one's gender, it is usually indicative of one's gender and other things such as social class, occupation, etc (i.e. there are fairly good correlations). It is not the drinks that determine gender, it is the genders and subdivisions within the genders that determine drinks.
You've already kind of established that it's not a man's drink, so Kevin pretty much has his work cut out for him :wink:
jagerbombs!
i don't know if you would consider leaving someone speechless as a smart and succinct response.. but i'm quite confident that this is a difficult question to answer..
Just avoid drinking it. Drinking alize at a party is like watching a football game with regular beer-drinking guys, and ur sitting there with a cooler in your hand. haha.
If u wud rather drink something sweet there are a lot of alternatives.