Should Gender Equality Extend to Drinking?
More women are drinking, and the women who drink are drinking more, in some cases matching their male peers. This is the kind of equality nobody was fighting for.
As she drank more, her career advanced. “It was like a one-of-the-guys kind of thing. In terms of success, people wanted to work with me. They’d be like, ‘Ugh, I have to work with X,’ you know, another girl. But with me, it’d be like, ‘Oh, this will be so fun.’ ” Rather than trying to hide how much she drank, she realized that her party-girl image would make her more relatable. “You have to be a bitch to survive—and then they’ll ... Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
When we were in the middle a production (film documentaries, commercials, etc.) there were a lot of 80-90-hour weeks with late night dinners accompanied by 6 or 7 scotches before we crawled into bed for a scant few hours of sleep. Alcohol was the way we came off the plateau–our description of the high levels of energy needed to get through production. Women crew members and actresses easily drank circles around us real men.