One of the things I grew up with after my mom got sober when I was 9 was "never get to hungry, too angry, too lonely, too tired" which seems to address this pretty directly. AA also serves as an outreach, as a safety net of other sober people to talk to when you're dealing with those emotionally driven cravings.

So create a better group if you hate it so much. I, a raging feminist atheist, Love AA and credit the program that I barely apply to keeping me sober for 7 years. There are other groups though, SMART recovery, SOS (Save Our Selves) recover, etc etc. Try one of those maybe?

Gosh, they fooled me. I've been sober for 23 years.

What exactly is the point of this and the last article slamming AA? Would you like to discourage women alcoholics from seeking help there? Because if you are, fuck you. I'll have 7 years in 8 days due to AA and if I read at a table from the book, I change the pronouns and no one gives a shit. I'm always treated…

As a product of divorce, I can tell you that hooters is almost 100% frequented by divorced dads with kids or 16-20 males who can't go to a gentleman's club. On the plus side, they gave me a cool Tshirt for my 8th birthday!

This footage looks suspiciously like one of those clips they show you in school about places where citizens are afraid of their government coming to get them if they speak their minds. But, hey go on being Super American And Free, Texas.

I'm amazed that someone could remain so well-spoken while being such a complete badass.

My husband and I watched this, and we were cheering at his computer for her. She's one gutsy woman, and I wish I was there to cheer her in person!

Goddammit, Lisa, why didn't you know about this article which was published a few hours after yours? Lazy fucking sociologists, I don't know what this world is coming to.

Of course, rather than pulling sinister speculations out of the air, a responsible author would have wondered, "Perhaps I am not the first person to consider this problem, and perhaps scientists have looked into whether women do worse than men in Alcoholics Anonymous," and fired up Google Scholar to check.

I go to meetings with mostly Agnostics, Atheists, and Humanists. We use the group as our "higher power" in that, if there's a craving or a problem, we just go to a meeting or talk to another alcoholic/our sponsor/read AA literature. It helps to not go through addiction recovery alone. And the 12 steps also count as a…

"but I think there's more shading and levels of "alcohol abuse" then "I drink once a year" and "ALCOHOLIC."'

What legal precedent is that? AA is not a religious organization; spiritual yes, but they do not require any participants to subscribe to any religious ideals or beliefs other than the concept of a Higher Power. I've heard lots of stories about court-ordered attendees to AA meetings.

I feel the same way. There's a wealth of women's groups in AA as well a LGBTQ groups, men's groups, etc.

As a woman alcoholic in recovery for nearly nine years, this article doesn't seem to understand the obsession and the allergy that is alcoholism. I went to rehab and AA as a young woman with PTSD, anxiety disorder, and extremely low self-esteem.

I go to AA. It is the only thing that worked for me, and I don't feel that the program is so cookie cutter. Women work with female sponsors, and to be honest, most textbook alcoholics do have a very strong will—-not "ego" but "strong will." And a directionless, dysfunctional strong will is no bueno. AA has helped me…

When the bride says that weddings are to make money for the future, that kind of clues one in that the marriage is a sham.

We had several of our friends carry off entire cases of beer at the end of the reception - like a few hundred dollars worth of alcohol. It was a pretty small wedding and though we did have help from our parents to pay for it, we bought the booze ourselves. Was it pretty irritating and obnoxious? Yeah. Did I ever say…

Weddings are to make money for your future