"Reckless drinking. Sex with total strangers. Many middle-class girls now see holidays as an excuse for behaviour they'd never dream of at home."from Daily Mail.co.uk
Where are all these girls? I clearly go on holiday in the wrong places.
Update -- I posted this to begin with because it just amused me. But then I got to thinking about it. I really can't stand the Daily Mail and it's Conservative outrage at everything. For one thing, the hypocrisy of it makes me angry -- it's girls getting drunk and having sex with strangers? Unless the girls are getting drunk and having sex with each other (and now you mention it, I think I've seen that video) there are also boys having "sex with total strangers" -- but notice how that's not remarked on? I expect a headline reading "Boys get drunk on holiday and have sex with people they don't know" wouldn't surprise anyone, but it's still the same thing.
And for another thing, who the fuck's business is it anyway? As far as I'm concerned, so long as people are being careful and not spreading disease, and so long as it's consensual, then what's the big deal? It's infuriating to see this sad excuse for a rag fuelling old stereotypes and ideals -- that men should spread their seed as wide as possible, but women should be chaste and virginal. Interesting choice of words that they refer to them as "girls", isn't it? Makes you think of children, makes the readers think of their own daughters -- rather than if you said "women" you would think of adults, who are responsible for their own decisions and actions.
Notice how the paper is still stuck in maintaining the old class system? It's morally outraged that middle-class girls are doing these things, but they probably expect no less from those working-class girls who everyone knows are no better than they ought to be.
If someone wants to go on holiday and have sex with 100s of total strangers, even all at the same time, fine. Let them. As I say, so long as they are careful and it's consensual, it's the individual's right.
As for getting drunk... again, it's not worth the moral outrage. If the newspaper is genuinely concerned about excessive drinking or binge drinking, if it considers the strain this puts on the National Health Service, that is one thing -- but I see no evidence of this, for a start the paper seems only concerned about when it's "on holiday". Drinking is a problem for many adults, men and women alike, and regardless of how much money they earn, but any ramblings by me on that can be saved for another day.
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