Men, I’ve got a bone to pick. I’ve had it up to here with articles written by you (men), presumably targeted to other yous (also men), discussing how to get women to drink beer. Are these articles condescending and offensive? Absolutely! But also, they're almost always flat-out wrong.



Thing is, men aren’t the only ones guilty of writing misguided articles about getting women to drink beer -- some have been penned by women who also have little to no knowledge about beer. And frankly, I don’t know which one is worse: men pretending to actually understand women, or women who don’t know a bock from a black and tan writing beer advice columns. Both scenarios kind of suck. And both make me go on super-femmy social media tirades heavily laced with my most favorite expletives. Not exactly a reputation builder.



There are countless misconceptions about beer that need to be addressed and corrected. And as both a member of the va-jay-jay club and someone who sells and writes about beer for a living, my ego thinks that I’m the perfect person to address the fallacies in the most common “how to get your woman to drink beer” argument. Here we go.



Lie #1: Beer is a manly man’s beverage

The Truth: Women invented beer, fellas, so you best recognize

And women didn’t just invent the finest beverage on the planet; they were also the only ones allowed to brew it for quite some time. The ancient Sumerians, aka the people who realized that beer was a thing, and that it was great, used to worship the goddess Ninkasi: the goddess of brewing and beer. And btw, goddess implies vagina.



Lie #2: Women are afraid of beer

The Truth: It’s not us; it’s (probably) you

Yeah, I'm talking to you, Mr. Extreme Beer Geek that spends his days and nights trolling beer pictures on Instagram, desperately searching for every opportunity to belittle and bully all of us bright-eyed and bushy-tailed craft beer cheerleaders because you didn’t get enough love as a child. It’s not our fault that we were born with boobs and get more likes on one beer selfie than you will on hundreds of photos over the course of a year --regardless of how many rare beer pics you post.



Let's face it, (male) beer fanatics aren't exactly renowned for having strong social skills and dashing good looks.



The geeks that I’m referring to are the ones who completely take the fun out of drinking beer. They tend to be hyper-competitive, heavily judgmental, and unrightfully pretentious. These are the guys that stand uncomfortably close to you at the bar, anxiously waiting for you to order a beer so that they can either belittle you for making such an uneducated choice, or go on a tangent about all the amazing rare beers they’ve drank that you will never, ever be able to try, because you just aren’t as cool as them.



I'm not by any means implying that women are shallow, but I just want to throw something out there, for giggles and shits. Maybe it really isn't the actual liquid that turns us off from drinking beer. Maybe it's you.



Lie #3: All women are on diets, and that’s why we don’t drink beer

The Truth: Some of us don’t hate ourselves

Sure, some chicks might have an irrational fear of beer because they think it's going to make them fat. And hmmmm, I wonder who’s to blame for that? (Yep, looking at you Beer Belly Man.)



It might come as a shock, but not all of us ladies step on a scale three times a day and count calories for a living. Some of us truly don't care if we carry a few extra pounds on our thighs, hips, and waistline. Some of us really (like really) love pizza and wings and burgers and life. And guess what? We love to drink beer, yes, real beer, with our pizza, wings, and burgers.



Oh, and while we are on the subject of calories and beer, all you really need to know is that the caloric content of beer directly correlates to its alcohol content. The more sugar you add, the more booze, but also the more calories you get. Moral of the story? If you ARE counting calories, opt for lower-alcohol beers.