By EM RUSCIANO
Let me be perfectly clear about something.
If you go to a huge, nationally-televised public event teeming with media, drink 57 breezers in 27-degree heat, take a nap in a garden bed and then end up on an Instagram account called “Drunk Girls of Melbourne Cup“, that is called ‘consequences’.
Not ‘being victimised’.
Let me explain.
Yesterday, some people at took photos of inebriated race goers and then created an Instagram account called: The Drunk girls of Melbourne Cup.
Here are some of the images from that account:
A picture featured on the ‘Drunk Girls of Melbourne Cup’ Instagram. Image via Instagram
A picture featured on the ‘Drunk Girls of Melbourne Cup’ Instagram. Image via Instagram
This was not a nice thing to do. Funny but not nice. Life, however, is not always nice.
Of course the photos aren’t just of drunk girls; there are men in the photos as well. I suspect “drunk girls” was a more click-worthy title. The account bio reads: “We are celebrating the young fillies and colts that love to party at the Melbourne Cup. Keep up the great work girls and boys!”
Today there has been some public/media outrage over the account, saying that it exploits women blah blah blah men don’t get ridiculed for similar behaviour blah.