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Ladies' Night
What a weekend for Jezebels! For those of you on the West Coast there's a meetup in Seattle tonight at 7 p.m. at Nite Lite Restaurant on 1926 Second Avenue. Readers should meet at the room with the smaller bar and pool table. There's also a gathering in New York City tonight at Common Ground on Avenue A and East 13th street at 10 p.m. On Saturday, New York area Jezebels can head to Joe's Pub at 11 p.m. for a benefit for Voices of Women Organizing Project. There will be live bands, a raffle, and all sorts of fun. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. As always, sign up for regional Jezebel Facebook groups for more info on meet-ups in your area; if you organized a meet up, email us at tips@jezebel.com so we can post it on the site.
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Ladies' Night
Attention D.C.-based Jezebels! Megan will be hosting a commenter meet-up tonight at the Wonderland Ballroom (1101 Kenyon St, NW by the Columbia Heights Metro Station) at 6:30 until drunkenness. Come join D.C.'s unofficial curators of the Den of Iniquity, Vagina Salon for drinks and beaver-related hilarity. If you want to here about these events in advance, please join the Facebook group or email to get on the Evite list.
Ladies' Night
Attention New York City Jezebels! There is a meet-up tonight in Brooklyn; go meet, mingle, and get your party on. It is taking place at 10 p.m. at a bar called Ceol at 191 Smith street in the Boreum Hill/Cobble Hill area. Have fun!
A new study out shows that children whose mothers drink "to escape" think alcohol is a terrible smell. In a study of 145 children between 5 and 8, the 35 whose mothers were classified as "escape" drinkers liked the smell of pyridine (rotten eggs) and cigarette smoke better to that of beer. To be classified as escapist drinkers, their mothers had to cite 2 or more of the following reasons for drinking: "helps to relax, need when tense and nervous, helps to cheer up when in a bad mood, helps to forget worries, and helps to forget everything." Researchers also found that escape drinkers drink more than non-escape drinkers. Julie Mennella, one of the authors of the study, says, ""Our findings show that children are also processing the smell of alcohol with the emotional reasons their mothers, and perhaps fathers, drink." This is why I drink alone, people — there's no one to smell your sadness then. [Science Daily]
news roundup
Beaver, Trollops and Drinking, Oh My!
- Not to in any way indicate that we have anything less than the utmost horror and offense for torture, but Lt. Col. Diane Beaver who once urged our armed forces to conduct more brutal interrogations at Gitmo, testified today before the Senate Armed Services Committee about her role in torturing various people. Even when the jokes aren't appropriate, we still have to make them. [Washington Independent]
- Really, it was the fault of this video, which you should not listen to at your office without earphones, that explores in great depth why the news media didn't cover the "John McCain called his wife a cunt" story. [Erica Saves the Day, Glamocracy]
- Also, studies show you're drinking more than you think you're drinking, so tip your bartender well! [LA Times]
- Oh, what you wanted real news? Fine. Check in with me after the jump.
declaration of dependence
Why I Miss Getting Hangovers
I promised Anna I would write about this week's New Yorker piece on hangovers as soon as I got a hangover, and I thought today might be the day. Lord knows I did my best to lay the foundations. But I'm on too much of a bender to be blessed with many hangovers right now. An egg-and-cheese and an ibuprofen and a coconut juice for electrolytes and an Adderall and a cup of coffee and another cup of coffee and my own high tolerance and all I have for you is that angry slight mass in the gut that reminds you you were bad last night. It's hard and nasty and gaseous but neither combustible nor debilitating. This is actually, it turns out, according to the New Yorker, a sensation indicative of an actual chemical change transpiring in one's liver, or more accurately, the putting off of that change, the breakdown of methanol. More »
leftovers
Ladies Need More Ladies' Rooms • Japanese Women Embrace Running
Kathyrn Anthony of the American Restroom Association wants a nationwide law requiring architects to build more toilets for women than they do for men. "Until men have menstrual periods, until men get pregnant, or until men breast-feed or have babies, we'll always have a need for potty parity," she says. • Cartoonist Lynda Barry (who also wrote the amazing novel Cruddy) has a new book called What It Is. • In a study of 866 blue-collar workers, women and minorities were more prone to file grievances, although filing one was not necessarily effective. • 80% of scavengers in Delhi are women. • There is now a blood and urine test which will diagnose pre-eclampsia in pregnant women. • The number of Japanese who run more than twice a week is steadily increasing and most of the new runners are young women. • A new book by Juliet Miller explores creative destructiveness in women. "The gardener who concretes over the wilderness may be fed up with doing most of the nurturing in the family. Burning the dinner may mean wanting to change the world." • The country of Turkey is grappling with a culture of domestic violence; 1 in 3 married women is a victim of abuse. • A victim of alleged gangrape tore off her clothes in the police station because she was so frustrated that the accused were not being charged. • If mothers were paid for cooking, cleaning and caring for their families, they could easily earn a six figure salary. • Holy cow! This bovine is as big as an elephant!
'no shit' studies
Depressed Dudes More Likely To Drown Sorrows In Drink
Women! We loooove talking about our feelings when we're sad, according to a new study out of the Yale School of Medicine. But men, on the other hand, are more likely to avoid expressing their anxiety and instead just bury it with beer. Yale researchers exposed 54 "social drinkers" (27 men, 27 women) to three fake scrips categorized as "stressful, alcohol-related, and neutral/relaxing," respectively. Then the subjects' feelings, behaviors, cardiovascular arousal and self-reported alcohol cravings were measured. According to study author Tara M. Chaplin, "After listening to the stressful story, women reported more sadness and anxiety than men, as well as greater behavioral arousal. But, for the men ... emotional arousal was linked to increases in alcohol craving. In other words, when men are upset, they are more likely to want alcohol." More »
boozy floozies
Baffled Scientists Discover That People Get Drunk To Get Laid
In a new study that has left researchers puzzled and concerned, it turns out that 33% of men and 23% of women in Europe drink to increase their chances of getting laid. The problem, you see, is that most people used to think that getting the people they wanted to have sex with drunk increased their chances of getting some (see: Janka, Paul). The study also finds that "Drunkenness and drug use were found to be strongly associated with an increase in risk taking behaviour and feeling regretful about having sex," which would lead one to believe that the women didn't want to have sex in the first place, only the article says "this study showed many young people were "strategically' binge drinking or abusing drugs to improve their sex lives." Dichotomy anyone? Let's explore. More »
Mommy Needs A Mocktail
Speaking of booze, a new study has found that 52% of French women drink alcohol during their pregnancies. (Only about 12% of U.S. moms-to-be drink.) Also, of the 837 French women surveyed, 13.7% had at least one "binge-drinking" episode, which means 5 or more drinks. But! Only two of the women in the study gave birth to babies with fetal alcohol syndrome. So. The French. Crazy? Or clever? [UPI]
fashion heroes
Milan In The '80s: "It Was A Nonstop Party That Soon Became A Bloodbath"
Vice has an interview with Renata Molho, who was a stylist and writer in Milan in the 1980s, a wild time known as Milano da bere or "drinking Milan." Ms. Molho describes an era in which the fashion industry was full of creative people and fresh ideas. Magazine editors didn't cave to the pressure of advertisers; they wrote about the designers, the styles, the fashions that they actually found exciting. "Just think about the power that press offices have today," Ms. Molho says. "They probably dictate 80 percent of what is written. It wasn't so in the '80s. Fashion magazines were made by individuals with taste, or lack of taste, but they expressed opinions." More »
party girls
Some Young Women May Be Confusing "Confidence" With Carnality
It's Spring Break in America, and you know what that means... Millions of college students are getting wasted. And, more often than not, this is the time that young women go from concentrating on history or communications to studying Sex Appeal 101. LA Times columnist Megham Daum went to Cancun a few years ago, to research an article; she writes: "The raunchy contests and general debauchery were something that these women had prepared for, almost as though for a final exam. They'd logged hours at the gym, in tanning booths and at body wax salons. They'd save up money for breast implants and then timed the surgery so they'd be healed by spring break." The interesting thing is that the women claimed to be doing it for their self-esteem. More »
drinking it in
Is Binge Drinking Always A Bad Thing?
It's been three years since alcohol licensing was relaxed in Britain, booze can be sold now at any time of day. A report was just released assessing the effects of this law, and while overall crime has gone down in England, alcohol-related crime in city centers has gone up, says Zoe Williams of the Guardian. Conservative members of parliament want to put government sanctions back on the sale of booze, ostensibly to curb binge drinking. Williams finds the idea of the government rolling back the new legislation to be pointless, and well, kind of fascist. The portrait of the binge drinker as marauding hooligan isn't even correct, argues Williams. Binge drinking is defined as four units of alcohol in a woman — it's not ending up vomiting in the hospital she says, "It's half a bottle of wine watching Scrubs." More »
shades of gray (rape)
Conservative Critic: College Rape Statistics Are Overinflated
Heather MacDonald, a fellow at the conservative think tank the Manhattan Institute, had an essay in yesterday's Los Angeles Times railing against the "phony" rape epidemic on America's college campuses. MacDonald claims that the statistic used by many university rape crisis centers — 20-25% of college women will be sexually victimized — is grossly over-inflated. The statistic, she says, comes from a 1988 study commissioned by Ms., in which a researcher, Mary Koss, classified things as rape that the respondents didn't construe as rape themselves. Writes MacDonald: "One question, for example, asked, 'Have you had sexual intercourse when you didn't want to because a man gave you alcohol or drugs?' — a question that is ambiguous on several fronts, including the woman's degree of incapacitation, the causal relation between being given a drink and having sexual intercourse, and the man's intentions." More »
drinking it in
College Party Girls Find Themselves In Perilous Positions
A new study from the University at Buffalo suggests that the transition between high school and college is an especially fraught one for young American women: According to researchers, the increasing number of sexual assaults on freshman females can be explained by a number of things, including "psychological symptoms during the first year at college, number of consensual sexual partners and increased drinking." The problem with the study, however, is not its veracity — it makes sense that mentally-ill women who abuse alcohol and engage in numerous sexual encounters are more likely to be victimized — but its language: The wording implies that women shouldn't be indulging in risky behaviors because they need to be ever-vigilant in protecting their sacred lady flowers. More ridiculously, there is no responsibility whatsoever placed on the men doing the sexual assaulting. More »
beer battle
Old Broads Should Be Allowed To Chug Brew
"Under what conditions do you consider it appropriate for an elderly 'lady' to drink beer directly from the bottle?" asks a reader of the syndicated Miss Manners column today. The reader goes on to describe the situation: The scene is "an upscale retirement facility" where there is happy hour before dinner. Residents often bring their drinks from happy hour to the dinner table, which is fine, but the dining room is "very nice." The complaint? "One woman (age 70 to 75) brings a beer and drinks it from the bottle during her dinner. I contend that anyone who brings the beer with them should have it poured into a glass — particularly an elderly woman." Miss Manners answers, "chug-a-lugging is not becoming in such circumstances... For anyone of any age or gender." But Miss Manners — if that is her real name — is forgetting something very important: More »
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