Yobette Culture
When the 2002 FIFA World Cup was held in South Korea and Japan, anxieties about football hooligans were highly publicised in the news. I learned the word 'hooligan' when football became popular in Japan. 'Hooligan' means a noisy and violent person who causes trouble by fighting, shouting and so on. It was synonymous with a 'yob'. A girl version of yob is 'yobette'.
According to the Sun newspaper, the number of women fined for drunken behaviour in all of England and Wales has almost doubled in five years. In 2005 there were 16,832 fines handed out to yobettes. The figure rose to 28,900 by 2007. In 2010 it was up to 33,000.
I think there are yobettes in every country, but it's interesting that the number of yobettes is growing. Why have they adopted all the worst characteristics of male yobs? The UK is (was) known as the country of the British lady or British gentleman, but in fact it has now been taken over by yob and yobette culture. It's amazing. Are they under pressure of stress? Could be. Did alcohol create a great change? Or do they have a dual nature, like Jekyll and Hyde? They seems like total opposites, but the line between lady and yobette may be very fine:)
The Sun newspaper;
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/3582370/Rise-of-the-yobette-culture.html
According to the Sun newspaper, the number of women fined for drunken behaviour in all of England and Wales has almost doubled in five years. In 2005 there were 16,832 fines handed out to yobettes. The figure rose to 28,900 by 2007. In 2010 it was up to 33,000.
I think there are yobettes in every country, but it's interesting that the number of yobettes is growing. Why have they adopted all the worst characteristics of male yobs? The UK is (was) known as the country of the British lady or British gentleman, but in fact it has now been taken over by yob and yobette culture. It's amazing. Are they under pressure of stress? Could be. Did alcohol create a great change? Or do they have a dual nature, like Jekyll and Hyde? They seems like total opposites, but the line between lady and yobette may be very fine:)
The Sun newspaper;
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/3582370/Rise-of-the-yobette-culture.html
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