Where do you live? Women everywhere drink beer. It’s not something shocking to see at all. It’s not something people do to be “cool”.

I wonder how the reaction to skatepixie's comments would change if she replies "i am from the Middle East"...
Regarding "drinking beer to be cool"... Skatepixie is not incorrect to think that some do it to be "cool"..... in the geographic areas where traditions are to serve at social events "beer and hard liquor for men" and "wine & champagne for women", younger women do try to "drink beer/vodka and puff on a cigarette" to defile the "restrictive adults"...
For example in our days, in USSR, for a girl to be
drinking "men's drinks and smoking" was an act of rebellion. It is an act of rebellion still in several other places in this world.
https://img0.etsystatic.com/139/0/11296903/il_570xN.869088636_kdrw.jpg
http://era.by/editor/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/advimage/upload/2df3b4ee3ff27be6df14e6845cbe8609.jpg
http://img.bibo.kz/?4209943.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/xCCsTaF.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/de/54/b1/de54b1a4b1ff0ab33393470d027afaf9.jpg
And yet, there's a trend now of women being, or wanting to be, rough and nasty to show that they are "strong" or some such. A way of rebelling against the princess image by, just being as low class as possible, I guess?
I'll send you a PM about that a bit later. It has to do to some extend with certain elements of socioeconomic and political agenda of certain groups, which sometimes has ugly exhibitions.
Women drinking beer at all is strange, to me, at least.
Here are few bits which maybe interesting. Beer-making (and drinking) historically is "woman's territory"...

Beer-making started over 4000+ years ago, in the Near East Regions (current Jordan, Israel, Egypt, etc).
http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/3fcfd664a...tian-tomb-model-cairo-museum-egypt-d96by3.jpg
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/...ent/uploads/Egyptian-woman-painting_Beer2.jpg
Fermented beverages (beer is one such) were the regular drinks consumed by an average family of those days. Women, along with all other house chores and cooking, brewed, served and drank beer on daily basis. There were "sleeping beers" used a sedatives, "menstrual cycle" and "pregnancy/birth" beers used as pain killers, beers for "energy to do the house work", beers for few other normal functions, including laxatives, and various "ceremonial beers" for all types of women's roles specially for women: mother's beer, bride's beer, guest's beer, midwife's beer, etc....

... and that went on for centuries until early 1900's..
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/25/bb/92/25bb92e897779f410b5846981afce84e.jpg
Until the invention of bottling plants, women were the main "brewsters", they created and sold beer, and ran/owned pubs and breweries.
It was perfectly acceptable in Europe and New Worlds even in "high society" for women to drink beer, in their own company and along side of men....
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3677/10557707463_f4621c67a0_o.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/23/63/1f/23631f7fec8d863facecc1a97c1cde49--drink-beer-craft-beer.jpg
It was even considered sexy, "risque" and "coquette" for a Lady to drink beer...
https://michiganmugsandmeals.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/1954.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/3b/eb/9d/3beb9d7e66c26bb84eca26c0d6ef85d9.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/52/e2/22/52e222e7ce2976e004169cfa8dee288c--vintage-wine-vintage-woman.jpg
.. and some famous female celebrities advertised beer brands.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c8/ed/7f/c8ed7fdba788833396bafb62ffea2478.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/2d/f3/2b/...c63c8--beer-poster-vintage-advertisements.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/15/9e/c6/159ec699dbf7caeaf32e1b49b4d3d6ac--beer-boot-vintage-ladies.jpg
... Ladies from Royal Families will drink beer if offered by a host.. "ladies" never snub a host and should at least take a sip of what is offered (unless it's health issues).
https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/princess-kate.jpg?w=720&quality=85
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/07/20/15/4284039300000578-4713936-image-m-331_1500560767708.jpg
In UK there are events such as "Ladies' day at the races", all women dress up like Royalty and have a party at a racing track...
https://i2-prod.chroniclelive.co.uk/incoming/article9572851.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/JS42799138.jpg
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/04/10/16/276F4BB300000578-3033363-image-a-450_1428680079166.jpg
...

towards the end of the event it can even get like this...
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/04/08/20/32FB2B3300000578-3529746-image-a-47_1460142343751.jpg
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/04/08/21/32FAC8BC00000578-3529746-image-m-17_1460145928363.jpg
..... and as to the "ugly"?.....
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sAxnXog5Smw/hqdefault.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/ea/42/69/...483226c81de--rockabilly-girls-pinup-girls.jpg
.....well, that's another conversation, the "ugly" is not about "beer"....
If you're of age, skatepixie, and health and religion allows you to drink, do try Czech Pilsner .. some women who drink it do hold season tickets to La Scala...
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/8a/f2/cf/8af2cfb9ff0e2e3f365d8cf1b0187e53--retro-ads-vintage-ads.jpg