Drunk Girls Don’t Get Jobs
I like looking at pictures on the Internet of girls passed out in shopping carts, binge drinking, and pulling bong hits naked. But at the same time I believe that women shouldn’t post their late night exploits on Myspace and Facebook.
Through blogs and social networking sites, the Internet has enabled people to create a social personality. Which for the author can be rewarding and cathartic but it comes with a price. Pictures, videos, and stories that a person posts allow viewers to form their own notions and opinions of the person without ever having met them.
For example, someone who reads my website might conclude that I’m a misogynistic asshole. Just as I might conclude from a girl’s Myspace page that she’s a drunken whore. And whether it’s true or not, it’s up to the viewer to decide.
Of course, the one problem with the Internet is that once content is posted it is next to impossible to remove it. And if its on the Internet, Google can find it.
So women get drunk, just leave the camera at home.
This is a great post, and I agreed with everything up until the last paragraph. Yes, there is a double standard out there when it comes to women’s vs. men’s drunken tactics. But, I do NOT think that a man passed out in front of a toilet is just “boys being boys.” I view that us irresponsible, unattractive, and disgusting. I would think the same of a women in that situation.
The point? Leave the pictures of yourself being “irresponsible” out of the online space- whether your a man OR a woman.
Thanks for the post!
I think ultimately we just have to wait until our generation is in a position of greater power. Then we’ll be able to take pictures of ourselves being idiots, and as long as we get our work done and have a decent resume, no one will care. Privacy is going to die. Before it does, we need to shore up the right to be different, even the right to be harmlessly aberant.
this is all true. my blog (http://frecklesmcflaskaction.blogspot.com/) which makes me look like a legitimate raging alcholic isnt connected to my “real” name nor my “real” email addy. i think people who are retarded enough to connect that stuff with their real life person deserve to be unemployed and scorned. it’s all about covering your ass. if you can do that, post pix and drunken shenanigan stories till your feel the catharsis warm you like a gut full of bourbon.
i think there is an important question to answer before we begin judging these girls…
who took the picture and what happened next? theres an old addage about pictures and thousands of words, bla bla blah… but seriously though, what is the story? personally i only post pictures on the net if the meet a series of qualifications:
1. the picture isnt lying
2. i remember someone photographing me
3. the incident didnt end in havoc or heartbreak
4. theres a good story behind the picture
5. if my grandma googled my name and found a bunch of semi pornographic shots of me and others behaving like apes shed probly have a heart attack, just think about that shit…