This is a story about young women who post photos of themselves performing silly, drunken acts like peeing on a waterfall or dancing on a table. Predictably, the old fart who wrote the story — as well as several who were interviewed for it — seems incredibly concerned that these young ladies are not thinking about the consequences of showing themselves in this state in public.
I, however, have a theory, which says there will actually be no consequences at all. Why? Because everybody is doing it.
I’m just realizing theory might be worth a blog post of its own, so I think I’ll stop there, and go into more details in a more fleshed out post in the future. :)
001 // Brian Ford // 12.11.2007 // 8:22 AM
I guess it just depends. Like all behavior — it’s probably only worth worrying about if the behavior is excessive.
It’s probably also only a concern if that person hopes to be a politician or perhaps a member of law enforcement — or any government job with extensive background checks. Most any other job in the world would never know, and I’m pretty sure it would be harassment if a job found out after the fact and gave a girl a hard time for it.
I also think you’re exaggerating quite a lot by saying that “everybody” is doing it. Yes, the girls you befriended at K-State were picking up the slack for a lot of other girls — but I don’t think they were representative of everybody.
I think the real issue is the double standard of not pointing out that guys behave in the same way.
002 // mrben // 12.12.2007 // 6:23 AM
Sadly, just because “everyone is doing it” doesn’t make it good and/or right. Binge drinking amongst young people (man, that makes me sound old) is a serious problem here (UK) and I think we’ll reap the consequences in a couple of decades time.
Oh, and “go into more details in a more fleshed out post in the future. :) ” - pun intended?
003 // Jeff Croft // 12.12.2007 // 10:50 AM
To be clear: I’m not saying there are no consequences of drinking too much. Obviously, there. I’m suggesting the consequences of posting photos of your drunkness online is drastically overstated.