"Women hit the bottle like men ...." but no, they, like with educational attainment, are doing it better.
"Startling new figures show that more women have been hospitalised with alcohol poisoning than men since the drinking age was lowered in 1999" The promoters of that little catch phrase, "girls can do anything' should feel proud as should our education system that so effectively promotes independent thinking and personal responsibility ... and ALAC for further promoting individual and host responsibility- but it's really probably something to do with smaller body mass ... probably an artefact of the 'healthy diet' programme eating away at the endemic obesity problem - perhaps there is a place for fatty foods after all.
And of course it is entirely proper that this should be "prompting calls for a Government crackdown on alcohol retailers and advertisers." After all, our parents and our adult population are not capable of making the 'right choices.' But of course the more you do for people, the more you take away from them ... the less they are able to do. The more you regulate behaviour the less they are able to make decisions for themselves - some of those self fulfilling prophesies, truisms that increasingly empower the omnipotent grandiose notions of our paternalistic leaders.
So will we again be subject to legislation to protect rather than intervention to correct??
Ironical really, that this has occurred subsequent to a reduction in the drinking age. Perhaps the 'healthy eating' programme should have similarly been associated with a greater access to the deemed unhealthy foods in schools ... I am sure that this somehow makes sense.
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First of all, nobody would agree that women should drink to excess, especially repeatedly - no human being should drink this way - but this concern about women's drinking habits does seem to stem from the social norm that women should not act like their male counterparts - and when they do, there's a call for a government inquiry. nuts.
yep.
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