beer ⁽²⁾

Friday's xkcd is about beer. Mouseover Text: Mmmm, this is such a positive experience! I feel no social pressure to enjoy it at all! This is of a piece with how beer is a component of the manbox, about which I have written before.

From the earliest age, boys are taught that there is a certain range of behaviors and feelings required of them if they will ever be considered men, and that straying beyond these borders is really not acceptable.  "Act like a man!"  "Real men don't cry!"…