The view from Ireland on the recent manipulative action by the alcohol industry to fight against alcohol awareness by creating the preposterous claim that the WHO wants to ban drinking for women.
FASD = fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
FASD = fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
https://twitter.com/IrelandUnlocked/status/1405941696119062532
We feminists have our blind spots too; and this is one: we can apparently easily be manipulated into promoting the interests of an industrial lobby when its PR men spin them as concern for women's rights.
We should recognize this and guard against it.
We should recognize this and guard against it.
https://twitter.com/IrelandUnlocked/status/1405937541342244867
How believable is it that the UK alcohol industry has developed a sudden feminist awareness & is fighting against paternalism & sexism for women's freedom?
How believable is it that they truly believe the WHO wants to ban drinking for women?
ALL LIES
How believable is it that they truly believe the WHO wants to ban drinking for women?
ALL LIES
https://twitter.com/PortmanGroup/status/1405167799819984901
The alcohol industry's action against alcohol awareness:
1) find hook to create outrage: Ah! a tiny ill-worded phrase about women; twist & amplify
2) storm into the media like a knight in shining armour protecting women from the evil WHO
3) bingo
1) find hook to create outrage: Ah! a tiny ill-worded phrase about women; twist & amplify
2) storm into the media like a knight in shining armour protecting women from the evil WHO
3) bingo
https://twitter.com/PortmanGroup/status/1405493068254564355
There was zero reason for this to be in the news AT ALL. The first drafts of UN action plans are NOT NEWSWORTHY.
But: SCANDAL! OUTRAGE! The WHO wants to ban alcohol for women! Now we've got a tasty story; now we've got emotions; now we can manipulate people.
But: SCANDAL! OUTRAGE! The WHO wants to ban alcohol for women! Now we've got a tasty story; now we've got emotions; now we can manipulate people.
This entire narrative was created by the alcohol industry.
Any media that covered this WHO first draft at all (why?!) did so EXCLUSIVELY from their perspective, obediently parroting their tall tale.
Yes, the alcohol lobby is good at this. 💰💰💰
Any media that covered this WHO first draft at all (why?!) did so EXCLUSIVELY from their perspective, obediently parroting their tall tale.
Yes, the alcohol lobby is good at this. 💰💰💰
https://twitter.com/PortmanGroup/status/1405546217887633413
The @WHO's ACTUAL concerns got completely wiped out by this faux lobby-manufactured outrage.
They include alcohol-induced violence against family members, traffic accidents, diseases &c, as well as yes, fetal harm, which causes lifelong impairments.
They include alcohol-induced violence against family members, traffic accidents, diseases &c, as well as yes, fetal harm, which causes lifelong impairments.
https://twitter.com/SB_FASD/status/1405529788702281737
@WHO It infuriates me to see how easily we were played.
It infuriates me when industrial lobbies manipulate women by fake displays of concern for our freedoms (let me laugh) so they can keep making money.
Big Booze is not our feminist ally, and we should not be its puppets.
It infuriates me when industrial lobbies manipulate women by fake displays of concern for our freedoms (let me laugh) so they can keep making money.
Big Booze is not our feminist ally, and we should not be its puppets.
@WHO Note:
This is very easy in the UK, with its well-oiled tabloid machinery designed to shape agendas by vituperating against international bodies. They do this in their sleep and the public is trained to be receptive.
(hello #Brexit)
Here are some of their lies about the EU.
This is very easy in the UK, with its well-oiled tabloid machinery designed to shape agendas by vituperating against international bodies. They do this in their sleep and the public is trained to be receptive.
(hello #Brexit)
Here are some of their lies about the EU.
Oh look, a tobacco and alcohol industry lobbyist suddenly acquires feminist awareness 🤡
https://twitter.com/ninawren/status/1405867896136417283
Oh look, the male lobbyists for the nicotine and alcohol industry are falling all over each other to demonstrate their new-found feminist credentials. 💰💰💰
Women must be free from the ridiculous and sexist WHO trying to get them to stop drinking and smoking!
Women must be free from the ridiculous and sexist WHO trying to get them to stop drinking and smoking!
Tobacco industry tactics to use women's emancipation against them have been used for almost 100 years:
"The tobacco industry capitalised on changing social attitudes towards women by promoting smoking as a symbol of emancipation, a “torch of freedom”."
tobaccotactics.org/wiki/targeting…
"The tobacco industry capitalised on changing social attitudes towards women by promoting smoking as a symbol of emancipation, a “torch of freedom”."
tobaccotactics.org/wiki/targeting…
The alcohol and tobacco lobbies are using the same devious means to target women, namely:
"industry marketing has sought to use emerging cultural contexts and reference points to build positive associations with smoking as a feminist act"
tobaccotactics.org/wiki/targeting…
"industry marketing has sought to use emerging cultural contexts and reference points to build positive associations with smoking as a feminist act"
tobaccotactics.org/wiki/targeting…
WHO: Alcohol can cause harm. Let's reduce drinking. Let's inform people.
Alcohol industry: Oh no you don't! Just you watch. We're going to set off the women 3,2,1, go!
(to women: pssst, @WHO are sexist pigs)
Woman: Fuck off, WHO, I'm a free woman! I make my own decisions!
Alcohol industry: Oh no you don't! Just you watch. We're going to set off the women 3,2,1, go!
(to women: pssst, @WHO are sexist pigs)
Woman: Fuck off, WHO, I'm a free woman! I make my own decisions!
Part III - How the alcohol industry proceeds to get women drinking more
https://twitter.com/yatakalam/status/1406362036582420481
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