The Dangers of Mummy Wine Culture
Sober Awkward
Victoria Vanstone
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
In this week's retrospective episode we take a look at the first time that Vic and Lucy really addressed the Mummy Wine Culture.
What is it and why is it dangerous not only to women but to their families?
And perhaps, most worryingly, why has it become so normalised?
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| 0:00.0 | What we call the mummy wine culture, which is just this massive thing that's going on in the world, which like you said, Vic, it makes us think that because we're mums, we almost should be drinking. It's a cool thing to do. And I mean, |
| 0:22.3 | it really affects our kids. What do you think? Well, I just think it's the wrong message. All of it |
| 0:26.6 | is the wrong message. I was involved in mummy wine culture. Like I was the one with the massive, |
| 0:31.3 | you know, space helmet-sized glass of wine on Facebook, you know, pouring beers down my neck. Every |
| 0:37.1 | photo of me on Facebook, I mean, for the last 15 years is me with a glass of wine on Facebook, you know, pouring beers down my neck. Every photo of me on Facebook, I mean, for the last 15 years is me with a glass of wine in my hand. So I was, I was pushing mummy wine culture. It was all you. It was all me. I invented it. I think I did. You're the culprit. I am. I am the culprit. And now you're trying to turn it all around. This is your way of not feeling guilty. |
| 0:56.0 | What hypocrite. |
| 0:57.8 | I almost hate myself. |
| 1:00.4 | Yeah, so what mummy, what mummy the wine culture does, it normalises drinking. |
| 1:07.0 | And it makes you think that drinking is the only way to have fun. |
| 1:09.8 | But something I discovered recently, I was on someone else's podcast recently, |
| 1:13.2 | and we were talking about this exact thing about wine culture. |
| 1:16.2 | And she said, do you think your children felt rejected when you were drinking? |
| 1:20.7 | And I thought about it and I thought, yes, I was always choosing wine over there. |
| 1:25.0 | So my way of dealing with their bad behaviour was to say, you are annoying, therefore, |
| 1:30.7 | I'm going to numb you out by drinking. |
| 1:32.3 | And I need to drink to be a good mum and to numb out your behaviour. |
| 1:36.5 | So that was the message I was passing on with that. |
| 1:38.6 | And I didn't really think about that until much later until actually I'd stopped. |
| 1:42.5 | So you're creating a feeling of rejection within your children by drinking in front of them, I guess. |
| 1:47.9 | And just something on that as well for when they get older, a lot of the time when they're going from A to B for their social life. |
| 1:56.2 | What you're seeing now is a lot of parents are just giving kids Uber accounts. |
| 2:02.6 | So a stranger can drive them from A to B because they're too drunk to do it themselves or they're over the limit and they |
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