I’ve been thinking a lot about the recent wellness-ification of sobriety. And yes: if you weren’t aware, there is a legitimately a whole new temperance movement afoot.
I’ve been doing a lot of research on this recent, resurged interest in sobriety for a project I’m procrastinating on, and I find it genuinely fascinating the way that the zeitgeist (am I even using that word right, does anyone ever use that word right) talks about ALCOHOLISM and SOBRIETY and TEMPERANCE and so on and so forth.
Take this one lady who is gentrifying sobriety via paid membership community (gotta get them coins, baby), insists that alcohol is anti-feminist, and writes extremely cringe shit in her book that… you know what, let me just give you the quote:
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