I think that this Rose Café provided an interesting way to think about the cultural association of binge drinking with masculinity or toughness. I was surprised that I had never really questioned or interrogated the the fact that being able to drink massive quantities of alcohol is often taken to signal masculinity and toughness. It was fascinating to hear that this association originated so long ago, originally among German knights who were losing their prominent positions as defenders of society and, accordingly, an arena in which to prove their masculinity and toughness. Hearing about where this association of heaving drinking with masculinity originated made me curious about what societal conditions make this association so prominent and relevant still today. Indeed, I do not think that just because something gets incorporated as a cultural fact in the historic past, it continues to remain relevant. I think it would be super interesting to interrogate what cultural functions this association performs today. Additionally, I think that while heavy drinking is a gendered phenomenon, it definitely is also a behavior in which women engage. I had never thought about whether women’s heavy drinking offered a means of conveying some cultural signal, and if it does, what this cultural signal might be. I would definitely also attend a Rose Café that covered that topic. Essentially, what I really enjoyed about this discussion was that it forced us to revaluate aspects of our culture that we accept as natural or normal, and I thought that comparisons to countries where this association was not accepted as normal and was actually frowned upon really underscored this point.