# Why Do Some Women Peel Labels Off Their Beer Bottles When At The Bar **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 12, 2005, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-women-peel-labels-off-their-beer-bottles-when-at-the-bar/298920 "2005-04-12T03:42:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-women-peel-labels-off-their-beer-bottles-when-at-the-bar/298920/41 "2021-10-22T15:07:47Z")
I’m late to the party, but in college the story went that if you could peel the label off intact, you’d get laid that night. In a school with a nearly 4-1 ratio of men to women, you needed all the help you could get, magical thinking included. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-women-peel-labels-off-their-beer-bottles-when-at-the-bar/298920/42 "2021-10-22T15:16:59Z")
Ever hopeful for any sign that some woman sitting at a bar is just itching for some man to come along and offer to have some kind of sex. Surely, surely it’s a cry from the unconscious! 🤣 I would peel the label off now and then, never knew I was mesmerizing men as if I was a mandrill in a zoo ‘presenting’. … really, white trash song lyrics notwithstanding, it’s something to do with your hands when sitting in a boring bar with sportsball on the tv. ---
**Author:** ![Mallard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-women-peel-labels-off-their-beer-bottles-when-at-the-bar/298920/43 "2021-10-22T17:17:44Z")
Male here and I used to peel labels off beer bottles in bars all the time. Mind you in my youth I hung more in dive joints so I ONLY drank bottled beer. As I got older I’ve hung around in a bit higher class drinking establishments and not as fearful of drinking my fav draught beer from a glass. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-women-peel-labels-off-their-beer-bottles-when-at-the-bar/298920/44 "2021-10-22T18:58:24Z")
> [@Mallard](#): > > Male here and I used to peel labels off beer bottles in bars all the time. [William? Billy? Mac? Buddy?](https://youtu.be/TN3jwRLZQmw) ---
**Author:** ![Mallard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2021, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-women-peel-labels-off-their-beer-bottles-when-at-the-bar/298920/45 "2021-10-22T20:55:02Z")
I take it I’m not alone? ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2021, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-women-peel-labels-off-their-beer-bottles-when-at-the-bar/298920/46 "2021-10-24T01:19:02Z")
Damn, I’m supposed to crush the CANS on my forehead? That will be a lot easier. Ignorance fought! ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2021, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-women-peel-labels-off-their-beer-bottles-when-at-the-bar/298920/47 "2021-10-25T01:02:46Z")
> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > “One Of Them Girls” by Lee Brice. Which means it probably wasn’t the song from the original post. Because “One of Them Girls” only dates back to 2020, whereas the OP was from 2005. So, a zombie resurrection, but also wrong. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-some-women-peel-labels-off-their-beer-bottles-when-at-the-bar/298920.md?page=2)