Ladette?

ladette

noun

ladettes, plural

A young woman who behaves in a boisterously way or crude manner and engages in heavy drinking. 

The fate of the Global Economy is looking worse than that of Voldermort, so its no surprise today that online news sites are crawling with stories that take peoples minds off the predicted doom and gloom for the world. Stories of Shane Warne and his diet shakes...Is he looking Slim and Trim to keep up with Liz Hurley? Or the tale of Anna Bligh's son, the tears and the 'here, here's' as she told parliament about her sons extra role in the latest Climate Smart add. One story however that all online outlets seem to running is the concerns about the lack of class that todays women now have, hence the title ladette. Not sure what a ladette is? Watch the video below - 

Now, I'm no ladette - well I wouldn't be a contender for 'Ladette to Lady' anyway. I do however find the idea about Ladette's interesting and honestly unsurprising. As young girls we grow up being told we can do what the little boys in the playground can do. After all this is the 21st Century and we're meant to have gender equality. The young girls in the playground do the things their grandmothers weren't allowed to. They play with dirt, they watch football with their fathers and brothers, they don't wear frilly dresses. They're allowed to do what the boys do, they're taught that when they grow up, they can be a engineer or a sports reporter, even if its the path meant to be trod by the little boys in the playground. With the idea that we're all equal, that the girls aren't brought up to be housekeepers, teachers of nurses, it's no surprise that we grow up trying to keep up with the boys in other aspects of life. 

When its time to leave the playground, the swings and slippery slides behind, the Ladette's of this world want to keep up with the boys in their new playgrounds, even if they're not 'designed' so to speak to drink as much, or if it's not 'right' for a girl to behave like they do. 

Young girls growing up don't choose to be a ladette, rather it's the result of their parents and grandparents strive for gender equality, the idea that 'what a girl can do a boy can do' and 'what a boy can do a girl can do'. 

Ladette? Or Gender Equality?