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What Is It With Some Of Today's Young Women?
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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.
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.
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Reading through the exchanges, I think that I observe everyone responding to each other based on their own personal experiences of life, which in turn are based on the amount of experiences they have had. In AOG's case - possibly our most senior contributor, and in his eighties, he sees a modern world where women (and men) behave in a very different way from the...
11:18 Tue 03rd Jan 2017
AOG
You wrote:
It is not only the working class wench, who dress in such a fashion, have you noticed how some of our female 'role model' celebrities dress for their Red Carpet parades and other celebrity's functions?
The people you refer to (members of the TOWIE and Geordie Shore cast in particular) are also working class.
You wrote:
It is not only the working class wench, who dress in such a fashion, have you noticed how some of our female 'role model' celebrities dress for their Red Carpet parades and other celebrity's functions?
The people you refer to (members of the TOWIE and Geordie Shore cast in particular) are also working class.
Reading through the exchanges, I think that I observe everyone responding to each other based on their own personal experiences of life, which in turn are based on the amount of experiences they have had.
In AOG's case - possibly our most senior contributor, and in his eighties, he sees a modern world where women (and men) behave in a very different way from the way he was taught growing up that people behave, individually, and towards each other.
His was a more chivalrous and protective age towards women, and although it is easy to tease him for referring to women as ' the gentler sex' - that is how they were viewed when he was growing up.
Unsurprisingly, as in all of us, those formative attitudes remain, while the rest of culture has moved on and changed at what must be an alarming and sometimes scary and hard-to-understand pace. On that basis, I think we need to cut AOG a little slack - his way of expressing his view may appear old-fashioned to our more modern eyes, but there is nothing wrong with his protective attitude, since it shows a sense of care for vulnerable people, and that can never ever be a bad thing.
To return to the OP - newspapers do love to point and tut on behalf of their readers because this is easy cheap page-filing at a traditionally news-lite time of year. As advised, the ease with which these images can be obtained make the issue appear far more prevalent and shocking that it actually is.
Young people drink to excess because we have evolved a cultural attitude where a dose of alcohol poisoning is deemed to equate to having had a 'good night out'.
It isn't 'news' and it is no surprise, but for now, we have to accept that it is the way it is for some - but happily, despite the papers' intention to infer it - by no means all young people's way of enjoying themselves.
In AOG's case - possibly our most senior contributor, and in his eighties, he sees a modern world where women (and men) behave in a very different way from the way he was taught growing up that people behave, individually, and towards each other.
His was a more chivalrous and protective age towards women, and although it is easy to tease him for referring to women as ' the gentler sex' - that is how they were viewed when he was growing up.
Unsurprisingly, as in all of us, those formative attitudes remain, while the rest of culture has moved on and changed at what must be an alarming and sometimes scary and hard-to-understand pace. On that basis, I think we need to cut AOG a little slack - his way of expressing his view may appear old-fashioned to our more modern eyes, but there is nothing wrong with his protective attitude, since it shows a sense of care for vulnerable people, and that can never ever be a bad thing.
To return to the OP - newspapers do love to point and tut on behalf of their readers because this is easy cheap page-filing at a traditionally news-lite time of year. As advised, the ease with which these images can be obtained make the issue appear far more prevalent and shocking that it actually is.
Young people drink to excess because we have evolved a cultural attitude where a dose of alcohol poisoning is deemed to equate to having had a 'good night out'.
It isn't 'news' and it is no surprise, but for now, we have to accept that it is the way it is for some - but happily, despite the papers' intention to infer it - by no means all young people's way of enjoying themselves.
Thankyou NellieMay - at 62, I share some of the upbringing that AOG has had - and I do find myself feeling increasingly distanced from 'young people' and how they entertain themselves, but then I did at their age because I am a lifelong teetotaller and I utterly despise alcohol and its negative effects on our society.
I just feel that bad behaviour is wrong at any age, any gender, and any place and time - it's just that, as I pointed out, it's an easy hook for papers to go round the same old nonsense as they do every year.
I just feel that bad behaviour is wrong at any age, any gender, and any place and time - it's just that, as I pointed out, it's an easy hook for papers to go round the same old nonsense as they do every year.
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