The SNL skit on Saturday night was downright disturbing. When did we as a culture get to this point? Mommy wine culture has been out of hand for a while now, but this is beyond reckless and distasteful that it's more cringeworthy than funny.
When did we cross the line into joking about having a glass of wine or a bottle to death and alcohol poisoning? These were some phrases on the signs👇🏻
"Hey Barkeep, I wanna die tonight."
"I did Dry January. I never took a bath all January because if I was too hammered and I was worried I would slip under the surface of the water."
"I put my wine bottles in other people's recycling bins, so the garbage men won't know how many I go through in a week."
This isn't funny anymore. This is straight up alcoholism. I think the most disturbing part is joking about drinking too much to the point of death and not even batting an eye. When did we get so desensitized to this? When did as a culture, we think that joking about the third leading preventable cause of death is funny? Alcohol kills more people per year than opiates, but why aren't we treating alcohol as an epidemic? Instead, we're joking about how we drink too much, and it's ok. It's not ok. Our kids deserve better, and YOU deserve better.
Yes, we all make our own choice to drink, but when we see skits like this, we start to say, wow, I thought I was the only one worried about how the garbage men were going to judge me. Guess I'm not that bad after all. I mean, we already try to justify how much we drink and that it's not a big deal, so imagine when skits like these come on the television. There's another reason that "we're fine" or "don't have a problem".
You're not invincible. Drinking too much or drinking, in general, will catch up to you one day, so don't let these skits, memes, and merchandise fool you into thinking that you're indestructible. You're not, and in the meantime, you'll be wasting years of your life and your kid's life tied to a substance that keeps you "fine" until it doesn't anymore.
If you're struggling right now, you're not alone. There is support to help you through this, so please reach out.