I stand here before you in support of a woman’s right to get drunk.
If she is of legal age, spending her own damn money and has no minors under her immediate care, I support a woman’s right to get as bleary as her heart desires.
I also support a woman’s right to casual sex. Well, what we used to call ‘casual sex’, and is now called “hooking up”. Again: Legal age? Consenting adults? Go for it. Some of the best sex you will ever have is likely to be with people you don’t even like, so seriously, it’s much better to keep that stuff casual, rather than try to convince yourself that every orgasm means something. And yes, I am releasing a line of inspirational tea-towels.
I will take to the streets to defend a woman’s right to do both those things, if they are her choice.
So why did comedian Dawn French’s comments about “drunk girls” – where she talked her way into a proper Internet pile-on for suggesting that she was confused about some young women’s explicit sexuality – seem perfectly reasonable to me, while they flapped much of the Internet into an indignant frenzy?
In case you missed it:
Dawn French – comedian, writer, Vicar of Dibley, legend – gave an interview to the The Times last week, about a great many things.
She’s just written a confessional memoir, and after 30 years working in the sausage-fest that is the comedy world, French is being asked a lot about feminism.
