Why Women Drink | Kristi Coulter | Quartz | 21st August 2016

Perceptive tirade against alcohol from one who has recently renounced it, and now sees social drinking through new eyes. “I realise that everyone around me is tanked. But it also dawns on me that the women are super double tanked. ‘How did you not see this before?’, I ask myself. ‘You were too hammered’, I answer back. That summer I see, though. I see that booze is the oil in our motors, the thing that keeps us purring when we should be making other kinds of noise.”