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The story, at the height of LSU’s Jager boomlet, quotes kids calling the herb- infused drink “liquid Valium,” and theorizing that Jager was an aphrodisiac. When

by Cushman 16y ago

The story, at the height of LSU’s Jager boomlet, quotes kids calling the herb- infused drink “liquid Valium,” and theorizing that Jager was an aphrodisiac. When Sidney Frank saw this, he flew into action, assembling a team of hot chicks, dubbed Jagerettes, and dispatching them to New Orleans bars to hand out photocopies of the story. :\ Marketing genius? Cool. Getting rich selling date rape? Less cool. Although I guess that goes for everyone in the alcohol industry... Edit: Turns out date rape is one of the things you can't criticize on HN. Who knew. Edit 2: Wow, really? I'm disgusted. You five guys are dicks. I know, I know, no greater sin than complaining about downvoting, but this is disgraceful.

Cushman 16y ago
For the benefit of future generations of hackers reading this, I'm not opposed to alcohol or the producers of alcohol at all. I'm in college myself, and drink to excess as often as I can get away with. Furthermore, I love casual sex (although I can't get away with that at all these days), and I absolutely do not believe that having sex while drunk makes it "date rape". However, I feel that modern alcohol marketing which emphasizes that getting women drunk is the only way you are ever going to get laid is despicable, and does bear at least some very real responsibility for the uncounted thousands of very real rapes of intoxicated women that take place every year. And if you disagree with me about that, but can't bring yourself to use your words to say it in public, yes, that makes you a dick.