Last month we presented a particularly odious feminist, Dame Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer for England, our Toxic Feminist of the Month award, for ridiculous comments she made about overweight women.

The Daily Mail published this today. The start of the article:

Britons will be told to slash their drinking next week under the biggest shake-up of alcohol guidelines in 30 years. Chief Medical Officer Dame Sally Davies will urge the public to take at least two – possibly even three – days off a week to give their livers a rest. She is also expected to lower the limit for men on the days that they do drink to three units – equivalent to one and a half pints of beer – bringing it in line with the advised maximum for women. Experts say it makes no sense having separate male and female guidelines when people react differently to alcohol regardless of their sex.

The element I wish to draw to your attention is a problem that has troubled feminists for some time, and Ms Davies has ‘sorted’ it in the manner we predicted some months ago.

Current government advice – as published on a NHS website, here – is that men should drink no more than 3-4 units of alcohol per day, while women should drink no more than 2-3 units.

The overlap at 3 units is there purely to satisfy feminists, and has nothing to do with men’s and women’s gender-typical responses to alcohol intake. The Drink Aware website explains why there have historically been different guidelines for men and women:

Women are advised to drink less because, in general, their bodies can’t process alcohol as well as men’s. There are a few reasons for this: • The average woman weighs less than the average man. This means she has less tissue to absorb alcohol. • Women have a higher ratio of fat to water than men and so they’re less able to dilute alcohol within the body. It’s why women will tend to have a higher concentration of alcohol in their blood than men after drinking the same amount. • Alcohol stays in a women’s system longer before being metabolised (processed) than it does in a man’s. This is because women generally have lower levels of alcohol dehydrogenase (AHD) the chemical that metabolises alcohol in the liver.

Let’s remind ourselves of the third article in the Mail piece:

Experts say it makes no sense having separate male and female guidelines when people react differently to alcohol regardless of their sex.

This is clearly nonsense, which you’d reliably expect from anything that originates from a public body, starting with ‘Experts say…’. It’s rather like denying women are on average shorter than men, because some women are taller than the average man. At the very least, it makes a mockery of the notion of having general guidelines in this area. Guidelines should surely reflect individuals’ sizes, and other relevant factors.

Ms Davies obviously couldn’t raise the guidelines for women’s alcohol consumption to match those for men, so she’s going to do what we predicted, reducing the guidelines for men’s alcohol consumption to match those for women.

Yet another pathetic feminist ‘triumph’ in the war against men. I doubt anyone in the mainstream media will pick up on the gendered point I’ve made, but it was good to read Tom Utley’s entertaining piece about Ms Davies’s guidelines in the same edition of the paper – here.

I’m committed to ‘Dry January’, no alcohol for the whole of the month. So far, it’s been a doddle…

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