# Question for women: What "laddish" drinks do you enjoy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 24, 2009, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-women-what-laddish-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507568 "2009-08-24T23:21:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![JoseArcadio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@JoseArcadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseArcadio)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2009, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-women-what-laddish-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507568/41 "2009-09-01T15:36:00Z")
- Lager. However, I don’t really think of lager as a “laddish” drink anymore since most women I know either drink it as their first choice or enjoy the odd pint from time to time. Nobody would blink an eye at a lady enjoying a pint around here. - British Ales - Guinness. - Jack Daniels on the rocks. - Trying to get back into Whisky, which I enjoyed when I was a teenager. However, one bad experience with a bottle of Chivas Regal (and too much tequila) means whenever I take a sip it threatens to set off my gag reflex. Beyond that I’m not really sure what would fall under the “laddish” category. Cider? Vodka? Rum? Jagermeister? I know at least as many women who drink those as I do men. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2009, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-women-what-laddish-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507568/42 "2009-09-01T16:38:53Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > There was a long-standing tradition (now lost) in this country of the “3 martini lunch.” I have never associated gin with anything other than “manly” or at the very least “gender neutral” drinks. The cocktail hour was a sacred institution back in the day, when Men were Men and mixed up a pitcher of martinis after a hard day’s slaving over accounts receivable. > > Chalk it up to cultural differences. Where I come from (UK), men drinking what you describe would be classed as pretty effeminate. ‘Men’s’ drinks here come in big glasses. So, that’s beer then. Maybe a whisky chaser. And gin and tonic is certainly a woman’s drink, or at least a refined non-gender speicifc drink. Certainly not manly in any way whatsoever. That goes for all cocktails too. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2009, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-women-what-laddish-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507568/43 "2009-09-01T16:40:43Z")
> [@JoseArcadio](#): > > Beyond that I’m not really sure what would fall under the “laddish” category. Cider? Vodka? Rum? Jagermeister? I know at least as many women who drink those as I do men. Thunderbird? Special Brew? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2009, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-women-what-laddish-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507568/44 "2009-09-01T16:42:20Z")
> [@BlueKangaroo](#): > > I vastly prefer a darker beer. At one point, I offered a [Goose Island Bourbon County Stout](http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/1146/10672) to a friend and then finished it off for him when he told me he wasn’t “manly enough for that beer”. > > I also like tequila, straight up. Don’t know if that qualifies or not. Looking for a darker beer. Watch for Oskar Blues Ted Fidy. Pours like tar, but tastes great. [http://oskarblues.com/brew/](http://oskarblues.com/brew/) Scroll almost all the way down. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2009, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-women-what-laddish-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507568/45 "2009-09-01T16:56:57Z")
> [@SanVito](#): > > Thunderbird? Special Brew? Thunderbird isn’t so much “laddish” as it is “I just visited the local check cashing place, and now I’m $30 richer and thirsty!” ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2009, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-women-what-laddish-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507568/46 "2009-09-01T16:59:03Z")
> [@SanVito](#): > > And gin and tonic is certainly a woman’s drink, or at least a refined non-gender speicifc drink. Certainly not manly in any way whatsoever. That goes for all cocktails too. Really? I’ve always heard people call it an old man drink. ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2009, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-women-what-laddish-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507568/47 "2009-09-01T18:07:38Z")
Does red wine count as a laddish drink? While I trend toward lighter pinot noir, I will go for a nice full-bodied merlot or cabernet sauvignon once in a while. Rosés and zinfandels need not apply. I don’t touch dessert wines either. I see only sorority chicks drinking white wine. Men and I drink reds. In fact, my guy friends and I refer to Chardonnay as “That sorority chick wine.” ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2009, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-women-what-laddish-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507568/48 "2009-09-01T18:15:48Z")
I like white wine. I’ve never seen so much as the outside of a sorority. Probably on account of not being white. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2009, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-women-what-laddish-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507568/49 "2009-09-01T22:52:02Z")
> [@Dogzilla](#): > > I see only sorority chicks drinking white wine. Men and I drink reds. In fact, my guy friends and I refer to Chardonnay as “That sorority chick wine.” I thought white zinfandel was the “sorority chick wine”? ---
**Author:** ![Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tastes_of_chocolate/32/3232_2.png) [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tastes_of_Chocolate)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-women-what-laddish-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507568/50 "2009-09-02T22:51:48Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Yes. Someone please tell me how martini now means anything served in a cocktail glass. There’s no chocolate in a martini, and there’s no mango salsa. This is a favorite rant of a friend of mine. Usually followed by a comment about serving a dead rat in a stem glass and calling it a martini. ---
**Author:** ![Jennyrosity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-women-what-laddish-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507568/51 "2009-09-03T07:18:03Z")
> [@irishgirl](#): > > I like my drinks to taste like alcohol. Same here. Strong G & T, very dry dirty martini, whisky and cognac are my drinks, depending on the weather, though I also like wine. And chalk me up as another one surprised to hear gin described as a “manly” drink - it isn’t here. Very few British guys that I’ve met drink it - and the ones I know who do are wheat intolerant and can’t drink beer, and even then a request for one will often be met with “you big girl” by the other guys. I have to admit though, to an inate prejudice against women drinking beer, especially pints of beer. I just think it looks unfeminine. And yes, I know how old-fashioned and prissy that makes me sound! I’m not saying I’m right, it’s just something I can’t get over. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-women-what-laddish-drinks-do-you-enjoy/507568.md?page=2)