Last week Dave Bailey at HardKnott posted a link on Twitter to his new blog post entitled ‘Beer Drinking Women Are Not Attractive’, adding “there we go, set off the new year with a gender issue, why not.” That blog post was intended to present a contrasting point of view to an earlier blog post from Ding entitled ‘Women in Beer Culture’.
Dave’s post
was supposed to be supportive of women and to encourage discussion around the
subject of ‘gender issues in beer’. But it didn’t have a positive effect on
women. It had a negative effect. In fact, it generated sufficient offence that
the author resorted to taking the post and all comments down (along with a
subsequent post, also about women and beer) two days later. One female beer
drinker commented on Twitter that she’d never even heard of HardKnott beers but
she certainly wouldn’t be drinking them now.
