'Ladette Culture' Creates Plague of Disgusting, Drunken Women in Britain

Ladette Culture is a growing phenomenon in which young British women reject the idea of acting "like ladies" and instead become drunken, brawling hooligans. According to the Daily Mail, Ladette Culture is especially horrible in Cardiff, Wales.

Lest any non-British, especially Americans, have illusions, women who have become part of Ladette Culture do not become the kind of pretty, charming, coed drunks who cavort around and smooch each other for the edification of Girls Gone Wild. The kind of drunkenness that is involved in Ladette Culture features a lot of vomiting, brawling, and anti-social behavior that has hitherto been reserved for a certain type of man.

Ladette Culture has become such a problem in Britain, which seems to lead the world in women binge drinking, that it has attracted the attention of law enforcement and sociologists. The police are starting to crack down on public drunkenness by women. The academics are scratching their heads, wondering what is going on and why Britain is afflicted so.

Doubtlessly a number of factors are contributing to the plague of disgustingly drunken women in Britain. Some women drink, no doubt, out of a desire to be one of the boys, especially in business where the after office hours pub crawl is a venerable tradition.

But one cannot but think that there is something deeper going on. One remembers how extreme drunkenness was a problem in the old Soviet Union (and still is in modern Russia to a certain extent.) Britain is an extremely socialistic, politically correct society where life may be so bleak and unbearable, that the temptation to resort to the bottle for surcease is irresistible.

Also a lot of traditions that have kept British society stable and have proven an anchor for people to endure adversity seems to have deteriorated. Without tradition, including religion, national pride, or even a sense of certain things being right and other things being wrong, people can feel themselves adrift. And one does not have to be a psychologist to figure out where that can lead.

What can be done to combat Ladette Culture? Perhaps nothing less than Britain rediscovering a sense of itself, of an appreciation of its history, and a certain realization of that country's place in the world. Otherwise social problems like Ladette Culture are just bound to only get worse.

Source: The streets of no shame: The shocking picture that epitomises Britain's ladette culture, Daily Mail, October 22nd, 2009