Oh, the boxed wine. The wine for every occasion, including his own kids' birthday parties (he believed his daughter was too well bred to go to Chuck-E-Cheese so took her to some boring pretentious expensive restaurant where she was bored silly), the wine tantrums for even suggesting he may have a problem, the driving while drunk but it didnt count because wine.
He was always a piece of shit but the wine sort of put it in clearer focus.
And being elitist like that is totally on brand. They would insist they're functioning alcoholics when it's like no, you're not.
But i try to save some of my ire for the people involved in promoting alcohol. It was wild back when the pandemic was treated seriously and I saw vodka ads on Hulu.
Like people are stuck at home and you're telling them to drink more? It's bad for people dealing with addiction, but then i thought of people who felt some relief about their family not going to bars only to see some actor promoting a shitty cocktail.
I don't want to support any actor or creator who promotes booze. It's accepting blood money. Especially given the stressors people are experiencing right now.
The smug Reddit popularized thought-terminating-cliche "you must be fun at parties" plays into normalized alcoholism, too.
Maybe it's some neurodivergence on my part, but I hate the expectation that just being at a party means being drunk. If I have to be drunk to enjoy being somewhere, is it actually a fun place to be at all?
I was designated driver for some time before I got older and lied about an illness so i could evade pressure. Now I'm like nah I'm good and if they press it, I deploy my tactical trauma strike and tell the person how my mom died.
If they ruin my fun at a party, I'll ruin theirs. But I haven't been to a party in a really long time, so hey.
The very last time I voluntarily spoke to that "can't be alcoholic because wine is for smart elite people" biological relative was when he called me out of nowhere and demanded I drop everything to be his chauffer from yet another drunken event. Which is not drunkenness because wine. I told him to pound sand and he had a not-drunk drunken screaming tantrum until I hung up and blocked his number.
He seized the phone from someone near him to call again and keep screaming.
Oh, the boxed wine. The wine for every occasion, including his own kids' birthday parties (he believed his daughter was too well bred to go to Chuck-E-Cheese so took her to some boring pretentious expensive restaurant where she was bored silly), the wine tantrums for even suggesting he may have a problem, the driving while drunk but it didnt count because wine.
He was always a piece of shit but the wine sort of put it in clearer focus.
For fucks sake it's buying alcohol in bulk.
And being elitist like that is totally on brand. They would insist they're functioning alcoholics when it's like no, you're not.
But i try to save some of my ire for the people involved in promoting alcohol. It was wild back when the pandemic was treated seriously and I saw vodka ads on Hulu.
Like people are stuck at home and you're telling them to drink more? It's bad for people dealing with addiction, but then i thought of people who felt some relief about their family not going to bars only to see some actor promoting a shitty cocktail.
I don't want to support any actor or creator who promotes booze. It's accepting blood money. Especially given the stressors people are experiencing right now.
The smug Reddit popularized thought-terminating-cliche "you must be fun at parties"
plays into normalized alcoholism, too.
Maybe it's some neurodivergence on my part, but I hate the expectation that just being at a party means being drunk. If I have to be drunk to enjoy being somewhere, is it actually a fun place to be at all?
I was designated driver for some time before I got older and lied about an illness so i could evade pressure. Now I'm like nah I'm good and if they press it, I deploy my tactical trauma strike and tell the person how my mom died.
If they ruin my fun at a party, I'll ruin theirs. But I haven't been to a party in a really long time, so hey.
The very last time I voluntarily spoke to that "can't be alcoholic because wine is for smart elite people" biological relative was when he called me out of nowhere and demanded I drop everything to be his chauffer from yet another drunken event. Which is not drunkenness because wine. I told him to pound sand and he had a not-drunk drunken screaming tantrum until I hung up and blocked his number.
He seized the phone from someone near him to call again and keep screaming.