I am running out of beer from Glibfest, but thankfully Easter approaches so I should be able to get back to what I do best:  drink, and read things on the internet.

This is my review of FRAMBOISE SMITH (H/T:  Nephilium)

According to Business Insider, an online magazine sponsored by Dollar Shave Club is looking for new financiers.  Here is a link to the article that isn’t behind a paywall.

But why would a company that specializes in a product almost exclusively marketed to men cut their ties?  Lets find out.

This article explains how MMA Fighters and WWF Wrestlers are into Q:

As such, Labe continues, “Many of the people working in these fields operate with the mindset of small businesspeople, so-called ‘rugged individualists’ who think for themselves. They’re cynical, hard-bitten, scrapping for every penny and often ruthless to each other, but also the most easily conned, subject to false beliefs that not only have they figured out all the answers to, they managed to do so through cloak-and-dagger study of messages encoded in goofy internet posts.”

TL/DR answer:  they might not be progressives.

Here’s one explaining David Kibbe’s 13 body types. Supposedly, its an archetypal system around how women can dress in a way that flatters their body type.  Men don’t need to worry about it, as there are three male body types:  ectomorph (Gilligan), mesomorph (The Professor), and endomorph (The Skipper).

Here’s one explaining why women wear bras during sex.  TL/DR answer:  Issac Netwon hates you.

Here’s another from their relationship section:

Even “good” feminist straight men find themselves replicating all sorts of inequalities, whether it’s house work, parenting work or having bad sex that centers on men’s orgasms over women’s. Meanwhile, women’s passions and careers are sidelined, and they’re doing way too much emotional labor because their husbands or boyfriends won’t go to therapy and don’t have any close friends. The list goes on and on of all the ways people get caught up in cycles of straight misery. This is why the majority of heterosexual divorces are initiated by women.

This one…this one is great:

Men simply have more to lose than girls if they don’t fall in line with “gender typicality,” which is a term developmental psychologists use to understand masculinity and femininity based on peer comparison. In a patriarchal society like the U.S., boys consistently show higher levels of pressure to be masculine than girls feel to be feminine, which is predicated on them having more power, and therefore, more to lose. Basically, if you’re not a traditionally masculine man, you’re afforded less power and privilege.

I wasn’t very conforming growing up, for example. I had three older sisters, loved playing with My Little Ponies and got a lot of crap from cousins and friends at school about not following gender rules closely enough. So I know firsthand how patriarchy and power can be in play for boys as young as three years old.

…and now they call him a Bronie. Not that I am kink-shaming.

Gee, I wonder why they stopped funding this outfit?

 

What is FRAMBOISE SMITH?  Its a Belgian Ale Nephilium made in his cellar.  When he offered it, I had one of these Firestone Walker Bretta Rosé on hand to try side by side.  Truth be told, Firestone Walker knows what they are doing but Nephilium had them beat.  Where theirs was bitter, his was crisp.  His was nicely effervescent while theirs could be a bit overbearing.  Ultimately where a Firestone went too far for me is the unapologetic sourness, which was why I preferred Nephilium’s.  Before anyone suggests I am pandering and I just got a free beer—I got both for free (not the pictured one, of course) and I am not the only one here with this opinion.  FRAMBOISE SMITH:  4.5/5