Dallas Brewery uses Pun; Feminazi's throw Tantrum

Recently, the Deep Ellum Brewery introduced their "Dallas Blonde Ale."  Dallas Blonde is a comparatively easy to drink hoppy brew.  Given their self-proclaimed drinkability advantage, Deep Ellum chose "Goes Down Easy" as the Dallas Blonde's slogan:

What does it mean to be a Dallas Blonde? Sounds like a

loaded question. So load it up we did, with citrusy and floral American hops, Pale, Vienna and Wheat malts. Yielding a delicately balanced, and shimmering golden ale.

To us, it just goes down easy. 

[Author's note: "Sounds like a loaded question" is defensive; if Cahnman's Musings were in charge of Dallas Blonde's marketing campaign we would have called it "hoppy with a taste for Tony Romo."]

On cue, enter the Burnt Orange Report:

Deep Ellum's Dallas Blonde May "Go Down Easy," But Rape Culture Never Does

by: Genevieve Cato

Fri Oct 11, 2013 at 03:00 PM CDT

Dallas-based Deep Ellum Brewery revealed a new promotional van for their Dallas Blonde Ale on facebook this past week.
The eye-catching hot pink van sports the logo for their blonde ale with the assurance that this blonde "goes down easy." This is not the first time this tired, sexist pun has been used to sell alcohol and it probably won't be the last.

But, shouldn't we expect more of our local Texas breweries than to rely on rape culture to sell their beer?

[Emphasis Added]

 Plus this follow up post:

But, the point of the concept of rape culture is to examine the parts of our culture that play in to the continuing incidence of sexual assault. One aspect of this is the reinforcement of men's entitlement to women's bodies and their attention. Whether it is Belvedere saying that their vodka is better than women because it "always goes down easy," a bar in Brooklyn proclaiming that all beer is better than women for the same reason, or a Texan craft brewery attempting to sell you their blonde ale by asserting that at least this blonde will "go down easy," we are all supposed to be in on this little inside joke. When those pesky ladies exercise their right not to want to engage in sexual activity, at least you can count on your beer.

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The attitude I encountered in this response and others was incredibly familiar. "Some" women, Reitz and Reardon acknowledge, might be "offended" by this playful marketing ploy. If it is only "some" women who are simply "offended," as opposed to craft beer consumers expressing a specific, well-founded critique of the decisions made by the brewery in marketing their product, then it is much easier to dismiss.

When the bloggers over at Bitch Beer brought up the objectification of women in advertising by craft breweries, the response to their detailed and well-researched argument was not much better. Lady beer drinkers just need to lighten up, OK?

Cahnman's Musings does not find the slogan "goes down easy" clever or funny, but since it gave the feminists a hot flash, we encourage readers to support Deep Ellum Brewery....

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Cahnman's Musings encourages readers to tweet support to the following organizations:

• Deep Ellum Brewing Company:@deepellumbrewco

• ABC affiliate WFAA: @wfaachannel8

• Wayne Slater of the Dallas Morning News: @WayneSlater

• Glenn Beck: @glennbeck

• Greta van Sustren of Fox News: @gretawire

Team Dewhurst's Gift to a Hostile Media

Last night, in an interview with Hot Air, Lt. Governor Dewhurst made the following asinine statement:

“We have reports, and I have my staff taking a look at the video,” Dewhurst explained, “and if I find, as I’ve been told, examples of the media waving and trying to inflame the crowd, incite them in the direction of a riot, I’m going to take action against them.” Dewhurst continued, “We take a democratic policy seriously.” I asked whether Dewhurst could confirm whether members of the media took part in pushing the demonstration forward. “We have reports that members of the media on the floor, on the floor of the Senate, were looking up at the people in the gallery, waving their hands, trying to motivate them to yell more,” he replied. “If I find examples of that, proof certain on our video,” Dewhurst warned, “I’m going to address this firmly.”

 Which, predictably, the media used to portray Dewhurst as some sort of tyrant.

Austin Chronicle: Dewhurst versus the First Amendment:

In the collective mind of the GOP, who were the people who shouted down the backdoor abortion ban in Senate Bill 5? First, it was feminazis. Then it was communists. Then Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst blamed (for a few brief hours) the Texas legislative press corps.

This gem came about yesterday when the Dew called in to the Ed Morrissey Show: He's one of the talking heads on Hot Air, the right wing noise machine founded by Michelle Malkin.

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This would all seem vaguely farcical, if the right wasn't already trying to target the press. For example, conservative think tank Empower Texans was taking baseless pot shots at Erica Grieder of Texas Monthly for alleged bias when she Tweeted "If asked to choose between decorum and my fellow Texans, I will choose Texans every time, on ANY issue."

 Dallas Morning News: Will Dewhurst have Texas Press Corps arrested?!?

Lt. Gov David Dewhurst says his office is reviewing video of the Senate filibuster and  protest that doomed an abortion bill to see if the media should be arrested. Dewhurst told a conservative web site that he suspects reporters were complicit in inciting a riot. He offered no evidence, but said his staff is looking over the tapes of the final, chaotic night last Tuesday.

 This was a sloppy, unforced error on the part of Team Dewhurst.  It's not a secret that the pro-abortion forces are trying to portray themselves standing against some alleged abuse of power.  Team Dewhurst shouldn't make their job easier.