I've been grateful to researchers before, and I'll be grateful to them again regarding alcohol and the effects on young brains. I was doing a little bit of research into the age at which it became illegal to sell alcohol to miners. I found this fantastic letter to the editor from Thursday 6 September 1928 regarding the issue. The person wrote that amendments were needed to provide further reform in dealing with alcohol. I was thinking what a sensible person he was until I got to point four and five of his wonderful plan.
Point 4 is to prohibit the sale of alcoholic liquor to women in any public bar.
Point 5 is essentially to ensure that women currently working in bars should be sacked.
I was staggered. Why would such suggestions assist in alcohol reform?
So I'm grateful - a second time - that I live in slightly more enlightened times that generally treat women as equal to men. It's funny because I agree with alcohol restrictions, but not at the expense of inequality!
Sigh...
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