Shots In The Dark
Monday, November 05, 2007
  Why You Have to Love British Journalism
Today's Daily Mail has a piece on a Facebook group called "30 Reasons Girls Should Call It a Night,*" in which young women post photos of themselves in various states of drunken misbehavior.

The site is apparently full of pictures like this:

Drunken girls on Facebook

So much for feminism, right?

But there are actually some serious issues here, having to do with the changing nature of privacy. Surely these pictures will, for a while, come back to haunt these young people. But as always the boundaries will be pushed, and one day we can expect to hear a presidential candidate say, Sure, I once posted a picture of myself drunk and passed out on Facebook, but...who didn't?

Check out the comments, which are pretty funny—including the one from Rebecca Levy, a journalist at The Sun, who offers to pay women on the site for their stories....
 
Comments:
Well, as regards your comment, "so much for feminism," it is true (speaking from personal experience) that young women can just as easily end up alcoholics as young men , addiction is an equal opportunity "destroyer." I don't think young men would be given the same treatment in the news ,however, because of differences in attire.
 
And also because no one tries to rape a drunk male.
 
Really?
 
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