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Brickbat: Women's Temperance

Charles Oliver | 1.29.2018 4:00 AM

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Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has overturned a measure that would have allowed women to buy alcoholic beverages. A 1955 law bans women, but not men, from buying alcohol.

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  1. Eidde   8 years ago

    Women who can't find a man willing to buy them booze are the very women who need booze the most...

    is what a sexist would say.

    1. Rat on a train   8 years ago

      They're fighting the patriarchy by prohibiting husbands from sending their wives on beer runs while they stay home watching the game.

      1. Adans smith   8 years ago

        They can still get you a beer from the fridge and make you a sandwich.

        1. SQRLSY One   8 years ago

          So over there, in addition to there being crack whores...

          They have beer whores as well?

    2. Rockabilly   8 years ago

      What's Wrong With Being Sexy?

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3Qn1uHlRIY

    3. hocuwige   8 years ago

      I'm making over $7k a month working part time. I kept hearing other people tell me how much money they can make online so I decided to look into it. Well, it was all true and has totally changed my life.

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  2. JeremyR   8 years ago

    To be fair, women were the ones that pushed temperance pretty much everywhere else...(and helped along by letting them vote...)

    1. Brandybuck   8 years ago

      Not in Sri Lanka, I think.

  3. Longtobefree   8 years ago

    Wouldn't this solve the campus rape crisis?

  4. Radioactive   8 years ago

    Well, we all know how they get when they've been drinking...

    1. Fuck you, Shikha (Nunya)   8 years ago

      They say yes to anal?

    2. SIV   8 years ago

      Like this

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