OUT of control schoolies are documenting their debauchery on social media, publishing photographs of dangerous drinking, fight-related injuries and nudity on public photo sharing websites. A picture of a teen with a bruised and swollen face from a drunken fist fight, and another with a bloody eye, are among some of the most shocking uploaded by school leavers to photo sharing network Instagram over the first weekend of the Schoolies festival. Many pictures, all publicly viewable and tagged with the keyword "schoolies", show teens vomiting, passed out in public or so drunk they cannot stand, while others show party-goers dangerously drinking from "beer bongs" - devices designed to facilitate rapid alcohol consumption. In one picture, a teenage girl is shown on her knees drinking from a beer bong being held by a teenage boy while two others watch.
Drunk, naked, bloodied . . . but that doesn't stop schoolies posting pictures online
Ex-BBC man Hall got teens drunk and raped them, court hears | Inquirer News
In this file picture taken on Feb. The year-old repeatedly plied two young teenage girls with drink and raped them in his BBC dressing room, a court heard Wednesday, May 7, He poured champagne on the naked body of one alleged victim and took a cutting of her pubic hair as a trophy, Preston Crown Court in northwest England heard. Hall is charged with 15 rapes and five indecent assaults against two complainants known only as Girl A and Girl B, who were under the age of consent 16 when the alleged abuse began in the late s. He is serving a month prison sentence after admitting indecently assaulting 13 young girls or women. I just went along with it. Known for his florid descriptive style, scattered with allusions to literary classics, Hall was until recently a familiar voice on BBC radio commentating on English Premier League football.
Gin consumption had risen from very little at the beginning of the century to 19m gallons per year by the s, and many people had become alarmed. Men are depicted as engaged in acts of violence or slumping helplessly after losing their jobs from drinking too much gin. Over years later, the media still portrays the drinking behaviour of women and men very differently. We encountered this first hand a few years ago when we published research on gender differences in alcohol-related deaths in Scotland.
Not to mention hotpants, girls giving each other piggy-backs, and themed nights at the local clubs — all of which, it has to be said, looks like a pretty cracking night out, especially as no one appears to have even been sick. Just as the heavy-drinking 'ladette' antics of the nineties were framed within a media context of women emulating male drinking behaviours, modern female binge drinking is still all about the men. This is despite the fact that young men are statistically the most vulnerable to violent crime in the UK. And, if femininity means self-monitoring restraint, then the act of getting drunk for a woman is an act of deliberate transgression. Instead, they are more naturally inclined toward a bit of a cry in the powder room in between afternoon teas.