One example of the pervasive sexualization of beer is the ubiquitous personification of “blond” ales as blond women. Tom Megginson at Change Marketing made this observation and collected a number of examples of this particular example of the gendering and sexualizing of food:
See more at Megginson’s post. See also our other posts on gender and beer here, here, and here.
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Lisa Wade is a professor of sociology at Occidental College. You can follow her on Twitter and Facebook.
