Quote: (03-01-2016 01:10 AM)doc holliday Wrote:
First appetizers, and now craft beer? Its existential debates like this which keep me coming back to this place. As to craft beer, never really tried it since I don't drink beer so much anymore but I can see why dudes would prefer it to pisswater like Bud or Miller Light. Those are truly awful beers. You can enjoy a fine beer without getting too geeky about it which unfortunately a lot of guys do. As far as G Manifesto, who gives a shit about what he has to say. No ones ever met him so for all we know he's some fat bearded dude sitting in someone's basement trolling everyone while he eats microwave pizza pockets and drinks craft beer.
You can just drink a good European beer. I don't drink much beer anymore (whisky and whine), but in bars and clubs I'll usually have Heineken.
It's like with hipster beards. You shave these guys and 9/10 they look like skinnyphags.
It's a feminization of masculine traits. The beards and retro posturing is form with content, it's vanity not identity. It's peacocking and preening. It's the male equivalent of some gutter mouth slut getting silicone tits and botox lips and thinking that is femininity.
No one will ever convince me that the kind of people who write food/wine/restaurant reviews in newspapers are not pretentious snobs. The kind of people who call Savignon Blanc 'banal' with fish (read this today, don't even know Savignon Blanc. Stuffing your face with exotic food while the world outside your burns down is Caligula reborn. Might as well bring out the vomit buckets again.
Fundamentally it's a pseudo-activity like so many other things. It's understable why we would go in this direction, it is male competetiveness within a feminine society. Cooking, dressing up, that is feminine pursuits. If you could have a wife who always looked good, who always cooked good food, would you really care? If you could have a drink in a smoke filled bar and speak your mind freely would you need to create these female approved craft beer clubs or hipster barber shops?