One of the recent developments in the UK has been an increase in binge drinking by young women. The average woman aged 18-24 consumes 22 glasses of wine a week. Last year British women consumed an average of 357 pints of alcohol per year. This is a 27% increase in the last five years and is now double that of women in Italy, Sweden and Spain.
According to a World Health Organization report, British women are eating and drinking themselves into an early grave. They top the global league for alcohol, drugs and junk food.
The most worrying thing about this concerns their behaviour when drunk. As one feminist recently wrote:
“They are on display every weekend in more or less every high street in Britain: tits out, thighs out, arse out, tongue out, deciding whether to snog a stranger or puke up first. They are repulsive, and welded to the opinion that behaviour like this is both “fun” and okay. It isn’t.
In Britain… you have to drink until you knock things over, and then have a couple more so that you drool on yourself, and then maybe chuck down a few nightcaps so you find yourself horizontal."
I have never seen this kind of behaviour in any other country. It is having a disastrous impact on young women’s health. Doctors report that they are seeing more and more women in their twenties suffering from cirrhosis of the liver. Female deaths from liver disease caused by alcohol abuse has tripled in recent years.
Another consequence of this behaviour is foetal alcohol syndrome (where babies are born terribly deformed and damaged because of their mothers’ consumption of alcohol). The UK highest teenage pregnancy rates in the world. A recent survey showed the majority of these women got pregnant during heavy drinking sessions.