Use as attributed testimony and cultural interpretation, not a population-level causal proof.
Named practitioner interview.
Elizabeth McCall attributes bourbon’s masculine reputation to white-male marketing and women’s historical exclusion from bars and high-proof drinking spaces, not to an intrinsic gender preference.
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The Distiller — Elizabeth McCall
Paraphrase checked against searchable text and the rendered PDF sheets 162–163 on 2026-08-27; PDF-sheet pagination, not print pagination.
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Paraphrase: Elizabeth McCall attributes bourbon’s masculine reputation to white-male marketing and women’s historical exclusion from bars and high-proof drinking spaces, not to an intrinsic gender preference.
Context: Named practitioner interview.
Boundary: Use as attributed testimony and cultural interpretation, not a population-level causal proof.
Locator: 162–163. Numerical coordinates are supplied PDF sheets, not print pages. This passage was checked within the full338-sheet textual and visual review. Verification confirms the attributed paraphrase, not every underlying claim or an independent experiment.
