Sarah Vine tried to shame women who drink in the Daily Mail and people got angry

Ladies, if you spent the festive season drinking yourself into a stupor – don’t worry. You and the 'gaping hole in your life that you're trying to fill' have the sympathy of a Daily Mail columnist.

Men, as you were.

Journalist and wife of MP Michael Gove, Sarah Vine, has written an attack on female binge drinkers, ostensibly in response to comments from Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, who said the NHS was being turned into the National Hangover Service. But Vine doesn’t focus on the serious health problems linked to alcohol.

Vine's column is written alongside images of women walking on the streets in skimpy dresses. She calls them “paralytic revellers causing mess and mayhem” and “a bunch of alcohol-sodden, helpless and hapless wrecks, so out of it they appear barely able to control their bodily functions”.

She writes that these women will wake up the next morning without embarrassment, shame, remorse or self-loathing. Quite how she can be so sure of that is a mystery, but being married to a former Conservative education minister probably helps.

She says these women will “hoot” with laughter instead, which makes her want to “weep”.

She calls these women “ladettes” – and says there are two causes of their terrible drinking habits: because we tend to not judge women for binge drinking anymore, and because, well, feminism.

She goes on to ask if these women “have a gaping hole in their lives they cannot fill”. Shaming them for drinking will no doubt help.

But people didn’t seem to want her sympathy:

People accused Vine of sexism:

And for being hypocritical, after claims she allegedly left her child in a hotel for six hours to go to a party:

indy100 has approached Ms Vine via the Mail Online for comment on the social media backlash.

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