“Drinking Like a Guy: Frequent Binge Drinking Among Undergraduate Women” by Amy M. Young, Michele Morales, Sean Esteban McCabe, Carol J. Boyd, and Hannah D’Arcy
Summary
The article of interest is “Drinking Like a Guy: Frequent Binge Drinking Among Undergraduate Women” by Amy M. Young and colleagues. The author was primary interested in examining why there has been an increase in frequent binge drinking among the most recent generation of female undergraduate students. Specifically the author examined whether female undergraduate women associated being able to “drink like a guy” (meaning consuming large amounts of alcohol, drinking competitively) with fender equality. Focus groups were conducted with undergraduate women who admitted to consuming alcohol. Participants were recruited from respondents of a random sample survey of undergraduate students attending a large public university and reflected the demographic characteristics of this population:
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Focus groups were based on drinking trajectories during college and sorority status. While women of all drinking levels reported feeling pressure to drink “heavily” because of the favorable impression they could make on their male peers, primarily women who were frequent binge drinkers throughout college felt that “drinking like a guy” described their own drinking behaviors. While women reported that being able to “drink like a guy” provided them with a sense of equality with their male peers, analysis of the transcripts suggests that “drinking like a guy” had less to do with gender equality and more to do with the emphasizing women’s (hetero)Sexuality. Findings are discussed in terms of how “heavy alcohol