BE A MAN

29 Jul 2014 By David Fuhrmann-Lim

How to drink responsibly: Three important questions to ask yourself. You’ll be amazed at what you can learn.

By Marcus Brotherton

The other evening I took my wife and kids out to eat at a fun, all-ages restaurant located near a shopping mall in the suburbs.

We’ve been to this restaurant lots of times, but I guess they’d recently introduced a new menu because I had never seen this before. A large picture near the front of their menu showcased a tall, frosty glass of beer along with this slogan—

“Celebrate adulthood: get a drink!”

Chalk it up perhaps to the sensitivities of being a father of young children — I felt that same sort of wince a dad feels when he’s at the playground with his kid and hears a teenager shout profanity nearby. Our order was taken, our food arrived, and as we sat munching our burgers and fries I found myself still wrestling with the implications of that slogan.

As adults, particularly as men, we’re encouraged to become close friends with alcohol. It’s a commonly-held belief that alcohol should be a necessary part of our dining out experiences, not to mention any celebratory event.

It’s common to link a 21^st birthday with celebrating the legal right to drink. What’s a bachelor party without a hangover the next day? Or a fancy dinner without a bottle of wine? What’s a Super Bowl party without hot wings and beer?

But perhaps it’s wiser to take a closer look at our overall acceptance of alcohol. Maybe we need to be more reluctant toward imbibing. More skeptical. More wary.

Consider three questions every man should ask…(read the rest at Art of Manliness)