“Lots of research links male alcohol consumption to violence against women. Is all this female suffering worth it, just so men can have their boozy fun?
Rather than a regressive movement consumed with moralist disdain for alcohol use, many of its most ardent supporters wanted alcohol banned for a much more practical reason: women’s safety.
Studies have shown that the number of alcohol sellers in a given area is directly correlated to the prevalence of domestic violence. And 88% of rapists on college campuses use alcohol during or just before the rape.
What is the price that women pay in enduring sexual violence, sexual harassment and domestic violence, for men’s good time? Is all this female suffering worth it to us for the male privilege to drink? Should men, really, be allowed to drink alcohol?
What if we took women’s safety as seriously as we took men’s pleasure? What would such a commitment obligate us to do?”
