What Is It With Some Of Today's Young Women?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4080750/Pictures-make-weep-today-s-young-women-SARAH-VINE-British-society-grip-binge-drinking-culture.html

I am in no way prude, but why do they go out dressed in the way they do and feel it necessary to drink themselves into oblivion?

Not that young men and drink are any different, but we expect young women to behave in a way more befitting to the gentler sex.

[anotheoldgit]

jim360

/// and don't direct your shame at one gender more than the other. It's an archaic attitude. ///

If trying to protect members of the opposite sex is classed as having an archaic attitude, then criticise me.

I don't know if you have daughters or sons but if you have, are you not more protective towards your daughters than your sons, in certain matters?

[campbellking]

I'd rather not see either sex go out and get bladdered to the extent they lose all inhibitions and self control. As alcohol is cheap and easily obtainable, this situation is not going to change soon.
I would suggest, however, that you need to take some time to go and work in healthcare if you think women are the 'gentler' sex as some of our older ladies are very capable of packing a punch.

[Answerprancer]

"we expect young women to behave in a way more befitting to the gentler sex"
OH ...MY ...GOD!!
That is spectacularly naff AOG.
I seriously hope this is supposed to be tongue in cheek.

[aelmpvw]

// more befitting to the gentler sex//
you obviously haven't met my doris aog

[Zacs-Master]

He's trying to protect them AP! I'm sure they would be swooning, back of hand to forehead, draped on a chaise longue if they knew. Poor fragile creatures.

[Answerprancer]

Not at all DB, if I've overlooked a line that was definitely made as a joke -my mistake- but I don't think I have.

[Answerprancer]

Maybe he will appreciate this then :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS37SNYjg8w&t=63s

[jim360]

// If trying to protect members of the opposite sex is classed as having an archaic attitude, then criticise me. //

I already did.

// I don't know if you have daughters or sons but if you have, are you not more protective towards your daughters than your sons, in certain matters? //

I don't have either, as a matter of fact, so I can't comment. Perhaps I would be. I'm not altogether sure that's relevant though since, after all, none of the women in this article are my daughters or yours presumably.

[anotheoldgit]

It seems obvious to me that I must hold a much higher regard towards the opposite sex than some on here seem to do.

What did the used to say, "Women and Children first"?

Every man for himself now, it would seem.

[jim360]

I read it in a different way: either you have a lower regard for men (such that you don't mind if they behave like louts), or you have a "higher regard" for women only by holding them up to some stupidly high standards that they inevitably fall short, allowing you to tut and say "if only you were as perfect as I wanted you to be".

Either way, it's not something I'd be so proud about. A "higher regard" it isn't -- just patronising bullcrap that will hopefully soon disappear.

[Zacs-Master]

Women don't need your (or my) regard AOG. Thinking that they do shows an inclination that they are considered unequal. I appreciate you we're brought up in different times but they're long gone I'm afraid.

[pixie374]

It isn't higher regard. It looks to me more like you are suggesting women bring attacks on themselves by behaving like that.

[Zacs-Master]

Would that be a selection process run by men?

[anotheoldgit]

jim360

/// I don't have either, as a matter of fact, so I can't comment. Perhaps I would be. I'm not altogether sure that's relevant though since, after all, none of the women in this article are my daughters or yours presumably. ///

It was a hypothetical question, but the present state of these females is fact, it matters not if any of them are our children, it is how the once proud held morals of yesterday are demising along with the general demise of 'Great Britain'.

I bet their families are so proud to see their children's photographs published in such a way?

[pixie374]

Equal and identical are not the same, divebuddy.

[jim360]

//...it is how the once proud held morals of yesterday are demising along with the general demise of 'Great Britain'. //

Britain's always been full of drunken louts, so I am not sure what is demising exactly.

// I bet their families are so proud to see their children's photographs published in such a way? //

Presumably not -- but, again, why should they be any more or less proud of their sons acting in like manner than their daughters? Never mind the fact that women aren't defined by their relationships to male relatives.

All I am trying to say is that there is no extra reason to frown on this behaviour because it's women behaving in this way.

[Zacs-Master]

Great Britain is a geographical term referring to the larger land mass of our island. I do wish people would stop referring to it as some sort of accolade.