{"id":51,"date":"2007-11-06T18:22:40","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T22:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/?p=51"},"modified":"2017-10-31T20:02:07","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T00:02:07","slug":"peeing-in-bushes-youve-come-a-long-way-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/2007\/11\/06\/peeing-in-bushes-youve-come-a-long-way-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Peeing in bushes: you\u2019ve come a long way, baby."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over one hundred and fifty THOUSAND Facebook members have joined the group *30 Reasons Girls Should Call It A Night*. Among these reasons, numbers 11 (\u201cYou talk to stupid skanks you really hate and tell them you really do like them and that ya\u2019ll should be friends.\u201d) and 14 (\u201cYou become overly enthusiastic when someone offers you $20 dollars to make out with your friend when you totally would have done it for free\u201d) stand out as first-rate examples of how popular culture demeans women. Because, like totally the only way for a female to have a good time is strip down, smear some makeup on her face, and wade out into debauchery.<\/p>\n<p>Number 18: \u201cYour make-up is smeared all over your face and somehow you have still managed to make out with 5 different guys. very classy.\u201d It\u2019s clear that what\u2019s going on here is veiled self-reproach; when someone does something which they would be embarrassed by if they had any sense, they mock the same behavior in others while remaining aloof to their hypocrisy. In an article for the UK\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/articles\/news\/news.html?in_article_id=491668&amp;in_page_id=1766&amp;ito=1490),\">Daily Mail<\/a>, Alcohol Concern spokesman Frank Soodeen was quoted as saying that this group is \u201csymptomatic of the culture of acceptability around drunkenness.\u201d Of course, drunkenness is a means to an end, namely, the dismantling of dignity and mores which stand between women and objectification. A very non-scientific study of the members of \u201c30 Reasons\u201d reveals that 40% are male \u2014 a ready audience for the photos and videos of drunken foolishness that college women are being convinced is the finest way to spend one\u2019s time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over one hundred and fifty THOUSAND Facebook members have joined the group *30 Reasons Girls Should Call It A Night*. Among these reasons, numbers 11 (\u201cYou talk to stupid skanks you really hate and tell them you really do like them and that ya\u2019ll should be friends.\u201d) and 14 (\u201cYou become overly enthusiastic when someone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/2007\/11\/06\/peeing-in-bushes-youve-come-a-long-way-baby\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Peeing in bushes: you\u2019ve come a long way, baby.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7073,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,96],"tags":[8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}