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17-01-2012, 11:00
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Wow! It's bad enough that rubbish like 'beers for the ladeez (http://girlsguidetobeer.blogspot.com/2011/07/back-to-snug-age.html)' are foisted on women in the UK, but at least there isn't the archaic attitude recently demonstrated at a show in New Zealand where a woman wasn't allowed to enter a home brew competition because, well, she's a woman!
The awesomely-named Rachel Beer was told that she could enter her beer but it wouldn't actually be judged because, wait for it, it was a blokes-only competition.
Initially I thought it was just one dinosaur who had put everyone else in a bad light... but then, oh then, I saw this bright idea from the show president Mike Smith in this article (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10778407) from the New Zealand Herald.
He suggested Ms Beer put a proposal to his committee for a women's or mixed sex section next year.
WTF? Are you kidding me? Is that supposed to make it all better?
I actually find that more offensive than the outright sexism of the original exclusion because this fossil can't seem to recognise that it doesn't matter, as Ms Beer so bluntly and brilliantly put it, whether someone has balls or not - the entry should be judged on the quality of the brew!
I am also cross at how badly this reflects on the NZ beer scene, because I've tried quite a few of the craft brews coming from that neck of the woods and they are excellent and I also know some of the brewers, most notably the boys at Epic, and couldn't find their attitude to be more diametrically opposed.
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Wow! It's bad enough that rubbish like 'beers for the ladeez (http://girlsguidetobeer.blogspot.com/2011/07/back-to-snug-age.html)' are foisted on women in the UK, but at least there isn't the archaic attitude recently demonstrated at a show in New Zealand where a woman wasn't allowed to enter a home brew competition because, well, she's a woman!
The awesomely-named Rachel Beer was told that she could enter her beer but it wouldn't actually be judged because, wait for it, it was a blokes-only competition.
Initially I thought it was just one dinosaur who had put everyone else in a bad light... but then, oh then, I saw this bright idea from the show president Mike Smith in this article (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10778407) from the New Zealand Herald.
He suggested Ms Beer put a proposal to his committee for a women's or mixed sex section next year.
WTF? Are you kidding me? Is that supposed to make it all better?
I actually find that more offensive than the outright sexism of the original exclusion because this fossil can't seem to recognise that it doesn't matter, as Ms Beer so bluntly and brilliantly put it, whether someone has balls or not - the entry should be judged on the quality of the brew!
I am also cross at how badly this reflects on the NZ beer scene, because I've tried quite a few of the craft brews coming from that neck of the woods and they are excellent and I also know some of the brewers, most notably the boys at Epic, and couldn't find their attitude to be more diametrically opposed.
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More... (http://girlsguidetobeer.blogspot.com/2012/01/no-female-beer-for-nz-competition.html)