Deep Ellum Brewing’s American Blonde “Goes Down Easy,” Pisses Off The Humorless
If you’re reading this, chances are you’re a pretty big fan of beer and women with a “certain morally casual attitude.” If you like both of these things, you’re definitely in the right place. However, there are some out there who do not like those two things. In fact, they’re getting pretty worked up over them in the most stupid way imaginable.
Deep Ellum Brewing, a craft beer producer out of Dallas, is taking some heat right now for a slogan that some people find controversial. As in most cases like this, these people are overreacting, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
Deep Ellum’s American Blonde Ale is causing quite the controversy for some people out there. The beer, which sports an image of a kind of creepy looking doll in a blonde wig on the can, has a pretty creative slogan if I do say so myself. “Goes Down Easy.” Deep Ellum’s Blonde goes down easy.
What’s all the fuss about? Anyone who’s had the beer knows it’s refreshing. It’s not overly bitter, and like the slogan says, it goes down easy. No bad aftertaste at all. Sounds like a pretty appropriate slogan to me.
However, some people out there find the slogan offensive and they’re letting everyone know about it. I mean, the government shut down just ended, the healthcare debate is nowhere close to being solved, but fuck it. Let’s spend our time and energy bitching about a beer slogan. That seems productive.
Genevieve Cato, a writer for Burnt Orange Report, is one of many who is upset about this issue.
“Shouldn’t we expect more of our local Texas breweries than to rely on rape culture to sell their beer?”
Rape? Who said anything about rape? The slogan is “Goes Down Easy.” It’s not “Force Her Down Against Her Will.” A beer with a slogan like that would probably taste like piss anyway. Look, for all we know, this blonde just likes to have a little fun. Maybe she’s waiting until marriage to lose her v-card. There’s nothing here that indicates she’s not a consenting adult. I don’t see how this is “rapey” at all, but hey, people have to bitch about something, right?
This is craft beer we’re talking about here, folks. For one thing, it’s for adults. Legally, kids can’t drink it. So what if the slogan is a little inappropriate? Secondly, isn’t this kind of the spirit of the microbrew? Edgy, bold, and unrefined? If you’re not mature enough to find a slogan like that to be funny and clever, or at least to put up with it, maybe you’re not mature enough to be drinking beer.
[via Fox News]
Image via Deep Ellum Brewing
This beer and Bacon’s mother have a lot in common, they both go down easy.
13 years ago at 12:40 pmI starting to think “rape culture” is just a term feminists throw around whenever they hear guys talking about sex.
13 years ago at 12:41 pmOnce again being a slut turns into “rape”. Not to downplay actual rape at all, but this is dumbfuck feminist bullshit.
13 years ago at 12:45 pmFrankly, equating an off-color beer slogan to a brutal sexual assault is a spit in the face to the victims of said assaults. But feminists don’t give a damn about the victims. “Rape culture” is a blanket term employed by bitter feminists to ensnare men who didn’t do anything wrong. The type of people who really commit rapes aren’t the types to bicker with feminists over dictionary definitions; they’re going to go about their business regardless of what anybody has to say. But feminists don’t care about that, as long as they are making men look bad.
13 years ago at 1:08 pmExcept that there was no sexual assault implied. a girl going down easy means it’s obviously what she wants to do. Someone being assaulted wouldn’t “go down easy”, ever.
12 years ago at 6:08 pmGenevieve is just pissed because Case McCoy wouldn’t let her go down easy.
13 years ago at 2:23 pmThe “pussification” of our country is worrying me.
13 years ago at 5:17 pmThese scrubs need to get their heads out of the gutters.
13 years ago at 7:00 pmFound this girl’s twitter page. Her twitter handle is “blasfemmetx”, her bio is “I am a feminist dragon. My fury is on fire. ” and her background photo reads “girls just want to have fundamental human rights”.
13 years ago at 7:04 pm