Comments on: Highly Educated Professional Women, Not 20-somethings, Are the Biggest Boozers, New Study Says…

By: mary fornier

mary fornier — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:00:16 +0000

Meryl Streep may have a drinking problem in Real Life. She was borderline embarrassing at the 2012 Golden Globes, and bombed at the 20092012 Independent Spirit awards. Granted, she’s won more awards than even Kate Hepburn at this point, so unless she throws up on the stage or whips out a boob at this years’ Oscars, no one will stop her. Hmmmm…maybe she was also drunk during the entire filming of Mamma Mia! — which would be the only way to explain her performance, that singing, and that hair and those awful shoes. Meryl, see k help now.

By: Stefanie

Stefanie — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:19:30 +0000

As a woman with a drinking problem, I noticed these scenes in It’s Complicated as well. And yeah, it made me want to drink! From my experience it’s not the amount of alcohol consumed -since I drank way more actual alcohol in my teens and 20′s- it’s the way older women drink- alone, daily, chronically-that creates a problem. These movies certainly don’t help because they do make this kind of drinking look glamorous. Fuck. Maybe it is. Just not for me.

By: Lyn

Lyn — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:15:47 +0000

I’ve always been a drinker, but now, near the end of my 40′s, I definitely drink more on a daily basis. 3 glasses of wine a night are the norm lately, more on weekends. I do think that it’s gotten to be too much – it’s not that I feel bad, or behave badly, I just feel that 2/night is a better limit in terms of my health, and weight. Not to mention, as we drink reds that range from $15 – $30 as our daily wine, I’d save a few bucks!

By: RhoRho

RhoRho — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:07:14 +0000

P.S> also, we 30 somethings still, mostly mistakenly, think we’re still sexy. We can’t quite grasp that we’re not 20 somethings anymore….We’re delusional, but hey, we get points for confidence right?

By: RhoRho

RhoRho — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:05:38 +0000

Umm, I’m a thirty-something and I can attest, that at least around here, even in a college town, WE win the gold medal for drinking. Actually, make that for the rest of the blog-world too. When I started blogging, i found more soul-sister winos than I have in real-life! I think the 30s, raising small kids and being either a SAHM or having a career/job, is being left out here! Let’s face it, MOST women in their 30s aren’t living the Sex and the City life. We are bored because we are in a place we didn’t quite envision being (wearing sweatsuits and getting excited about steam mops), or we are overwhelmed by running to rat race of getting our kids off and to our desks by 8 a.m…..or maybe we are somewhere in between..but a glass or three of wine at the end of the day, and many more on weekends when the husband is home to help out, is a better answer for some of us than Prozac. I’m of the SAHM variety, as are several moms that I know, and most of us will agree, almost without shame, that a bottle of wine in a night is really not a huge deal. What is it, only like 3.5 glasses? Unless you’re Cloris Leachman in Spanglish.
And, if you let a few of us out of the house to go down to the college bar scene for girls’ night, watch the fu*k out.