They are happy to admit enjoying a glass – or two – when in company. What they don’t enjoy, however, is being lectured about it.
Now female social drinkers have branded Whitehall guidelines on alcohol limits ‘ridiculous’ and are fighting back.
They have formed Drinkers’ Voice, a group to represent people who ‘enjoy drinking as part of a healthy lifestyle’ and want to ‘counter anti-alcohol campaigners who want to stop you enjoying a drink’.