Step one: Find the nearest bar that doesn’t bill itself as a “sports bar”. Step two: Scan the room for a woman who, despite an advanced state of intoxication, has a vocabulary that embraces multisyllabic words. Step three: Success!
Yes, according to the London School of Economics, intellectually gifted women are 2.1 times more likely to drink every day than the mental midgets in their gender. This trend correlates with men as well, but not nearly as markedly.
This world can be harsh, doubly so if you possess the intellectual agility to notice. Drinking makes the world more myopic and manageable, while inducing that carefree state a good buzz can give you. Researchers, of course, have their own theories.
There are two explanations the researchers offered for this phenomenon. One is that brainy women often delay motherhood, giving them more time to develop a social life based on alcohol consumption; the other is that higher-achieving females are more likely to work in male-dominated fields, which have cultures that are heavy on drinking.
Whatever the root cause, we at Re:Generator salute alcohol, the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.
