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\u201cMatrimonial miseries, domestic unhappiness, social wretchedness, and national degradation; every evil under the sun will be found, if you go sufficiently far back, to have had its origin in <\/strong>whisky.\u201d<\/strong>
\n\u2014from \u201cGrant\u2019s Impressions of Ireland\u201d in Tait\u2019s Edinburgh Magazine for 1844<\/em><\/p>\n

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W<\/span>hiskey (sometimes referred to as \u201cwhisk(e)y\u201d in whiskey critique\u00a0so the whiskey critic can acknowledge that whiskey is sometimes\u00a0spelled \u201cwhisky\u201d depending on the region) has bewildered, bedeviled, and bemused women for centuries, even as men have rigorously (and often chauvinistically) protected whiskey-drinking as a pleasure and vice exclusive to gentlemen and varmints.<\/p>\n

It can be argued\u2014and has been, especially by whiskey critics who are women\u2014that whiskey has been both a symbol and a rite of exclusion. From blues tunes to cigar clubs, men have staked their claim on whiskey appreciation. They even proudly appreciate whiskey unworthy of it: swigging rotgut is a classic clich\u00e9 of masculinity in westerns.<\/p>\n

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Even when marketing directly to women, whiskey dealers have emphasized that the drink is a little rough-and-tumble for delicate tongues. Women whiskey aficionados have successfully challenged such stereotypes and traditions. And though books such as Fred Minnick\u2019s Whiskey Women: The Untold Story of How Women Saved Bourbon, Scotch, and Irish Whiskey<\/em> have outlined the roles women have played in the development of whiskey around the world, this all works against decades of the popular notion that it\u2019s manly to love whiskey too much (no matter how bad it might be) and womanly to hate it (for its taste, but also because men love it too much).<\/p>\n

Here are a few glimpses of women\u2019s relationship with whiskey in centuries past:<\/em>
\n+ Historical anti-liquor movements, such as temperance unions and\u00a0prohibition campaigns, were often led by women and blamed on women. Saloons were considered a threat to family, and the popular imagination enjoyed portraying women in protest. While some women held prayer vigils outside saloons, others took a different tack. Under the title
\n\u201cSpunky Women,\u201d a news item in 1854 described forty to fifty women of Winchester, Indiana, visiting \u201cthe different rumsellers in town\u201d following the death by whiskey of a local man. They demanded the saloon keepers sign an agreement to sell no more liquor; if they didn\u2019t sign, the women busted up the bottles behind the bar.<\/p>\n

+ Though counties refused to outlaw liquor, many of them did outlaw\u00a0women from getting near it (and this is perhaps responsible for some women\u2019s disgust for saloons). Women were forbidden from bars and clubs throughout the 1800s, but ads for \u201cmedicinal\u201d whiskies and other\u00a0potent cure-alls (in the years before FDA approval) kept local newspapers in business. Ads for Duffy Barley Malt Whiskey were often testimonials by \u201canalytical chemists,\u201d as well as doctors, ministers, and the women who drank it. A Duffy ad that ran in several papers in 1886 looks like editorial content (under the headline \u201cFacts About Whiskey\u201d) and asserts that \u201cwomen, from the peculiar character of their organism, frequently need pure whiskey stimulant, and with them it is indispensable.\u201d<\/p>\n

+\u00a0 Ads for Duffy\u2019s included the following\u00a0spokeswomen: Mrs. Henke, \u201cknown as the handsomest woman in Milwaukee,\u201d who was cured of consumption after physicians failed her; Miss Susie John Cotton, who came down with pneumonia while traveling by train and was given Duffy\u2019s by a minister; Miss Mae Rodgers was cured of bronchitis; and Frances Burton (116 years old), Mrs. Susan Baker (101 years); and Mrs. Priscilla Martin (93) attested to Duffy\u2019s claim as \u201cthe Great Renewer of Youth.\u201d<\/p>\n

+ Lydia Pinkham, who inspired a line of curatives for women\u00a0that were 18 percent alcohol, wrote a medical book in which she recommended partridgeberry wine, fortified port, and whiskey in milk for a stomachache. A 1907 ad for her spiked vegetable compound asserts that \u201ca sickly, irritable, and complaining woman always carries a cloud of depression with her; she is not only unhappy herself but is a damper to all joy and happiness when with her family and friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

+ An ad for Tharp\u2019s Berkeley Rye in 1901 features, in bold print,\u00a0\u201cA Whiskey Ladies Like\u201d followed, in smaller print, by: \u201cto have in the house for sickness and emergencies,\u201d complete with a phone number for \u201cfamily orders.\u201d The ad goes on to boast that Tharp\u2019s \u201chas the distinction of being more imitated by unscrupulous dealers than any other in the market. Inferior goods are never imitated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though newspaper advertising portrayed women as needing these liquor-laced patent medicines (some of which also contained morphine and cocaine) to address their distinctly feminine problems, the newspaper\u2019s reporters often attributed crimes to a deadly combination of whiskey and women. Everything from suicide and embezzlement was initiated by \u201cwhiskey and women,\u201d though there were never women at any of the scenes of these crimes (and, indeed, women were sometimes the victims).<\/em> Here\u2019s just a sample:<\/em><\/p>\n

+ The following quote was tossed around in the mid-19th\u00a0century, as early as 1856, perhaps providing decades of criminal motivation: \u201cThe five great evils of life are said to be standing collars, stove pipe hats, tight boots, bad whiskey, and cross women.\u201d<\/p>\n

+ In the News and Notions section of an 1880 edition of the\u00a0Mower County Transcript<\/em> (Lansing, Minnesota): \u201cWhiskey, women and cards are said to be the rocks on which mail agent Ed. Keeler foundered. Either one of these cursed evils are enough to ruin a man, but from the three combined, there\u00a0could be no escape.\u201d<\/p>\n

+ As train robbers stood on a scaffold, about to be hanged, \u201cthey made statements attributing their downfall to whiskey, women and bad company,\u201d according to the Scranton Tribune in 1894.<\/p>\n

+ A man murdered his lover, and was sentenced to hang; he blamed, in a letter quoted in an 1897 article, \u201cwhiskey drinking, bad women, game and deceit.\u201d<\/p>\n

+ An escaped convict in Tampa in 1907 declared that \u201cwhiskey, women, and cards caused my downfall.\u201d<\/p>\n

+ The Santa Fe New Mexican<\/em> in 1904 reported on a group of men\u00a0in a brawl that led to a knife fight. Though no women were present, nor mentioned in the article, the headline declared: \u201cWhiskey and Women the Cause.\u201d<\/p>\n

+ Back in 1882, such attribution seemed to already\u00a0be recognized widely as clich\u00e9. A Kentuckian wrote teasingly to the editor of a Louisiana paper: \u201cPossibly you will not seriously object to a few lines from this land of good whiskey, pretty women and fast horses.\u201d<\/p>\n

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