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Stop Explaining Why You Don’t Drink
Let them explain why they do
I’ve seen countless articles and blogs that advise on what to say when someone asks you why you’re not drinking — we all have. I think the authors of these articles have their hearts in the right place — but stop that shit.
It perpetuates the myth that “sobriety is abnormal” and that you need to acquiesce to a culture that is bent on pouring poison down their gullets.
Why is alcohol the only drug we need to justify NOT doing?
Why would we have to defend NOT drinking something that causes cancer?
Or worse, why would we make up lies to avoid someone else’s reaction — when we don’t even know what that reaction might be?
As I said, the spirit of this advice comes from a good place, but if you stop and think how ridiculous it is to make an excuse for NOT drinking, following this advice sustains the false narrative that alcohol is good — and sobriety is bad.
