Drunk Girl In Public (Social Experiment)

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Hot on the heels of the viral “Catcalling” video in which a young woman walked around New York City, the way people do, and men said all manners of things to her, the way men do, there’s now another social experiment sparking a similar conversation about how vulnerable women are treated in public. “Drunk Girl in Public” features a girl pretending to be drunk on the streets of Hollywood trying to find her way home and instead, finding that a bunch of men want to take her to their place.

In some cases she goes up to a guy to ask for help, but most of them seem to be able to sense her helplessness from a mile away and by the time they say “hello” to her, the whole thing is so creepy and cringeworthy that you start to consider whether or not you truly ever need to leave your house again. The girl asks them how to get to the nearest bus, and the men offer to take her to their own homes where they plan to ply her with more beer. The worst part is how transparent these men are in their skeevy aggressiveness and how immediately they seem to be able to drop whatever they were doing the rest of the day because they now have a helpless drunk woman standing in front of them.

While this video may or may not be staged the truth is it doesn’t really matter. As probably most women can attest to, when you see a title along the lines of “woman pretends to be drunk on the street asking for help: you’ll never believe what happened next,” most would actually know what happens next — and maybe some of them even lived it. As more of these “experiments” come to light, one has to ask: What is the point? Women already know what happens when you walk down the street in the daytime or what happens when you’re alone at night; it all seems so obvious! But then you get to the comments section and realize that there is a world of people out there who still believe that women’s bodies belong to anyone but themselves, and anything that happens to them, they need to be held responsible for it.

It’s upsetting that a majority of people still seem to subscribe to the “asking for it” school of thought, which I thought had gone away with the horse and buggy. My favorite comment, though, comes from the gentleman trying to equate a person’s inability to give consent while drunk, to DUI’s, asking “why do people with DUI’s go to jail. They couldn’t have been able to consent to get in the car and start driving so why hold them accountable for these decisions that couldn’t have rationally made because they were drunk?”

No matter how frustrating it is to watch these videos, it’s even more infuriating to read the comments and gauge people’s reactions. And it is these very same reactions, the ones that blame the victim or tell women they should just “deal with it” why we unfortunately still need these videos and social experiments. To open up the conversation and finally be able to change the way we all act towards one another — it would be nice to think that one day, this could really be achieved.

[Hal-9000]

I went to a small strip mall one night and saw a girl staggering from the nearby pub....it was cold and icy out and she face planted on the cement. Me and the convenience store dude helped her up and her shirt was wide open, jeans undone and her face was covered in blood. She kept saying she was ok, so I asked the convenience store guy to call 911 and I waited around until the paramedics showed up...

she was hot, smoking body and completely pissed to the gills.... I could have probably got some non consensual action ...


I was a gentleman and did the right thing

[Hugh_Janus]

I was a gentleman and did the right thing

so you dipped the tip in?

[Hal-9000]

so you dipped the tip in?

of course not....I knocked her one on the noggin again, then used the blood for lube during what I like to call - the sleeping BJ

[Hal-9000]

seriously....she was hammered and had blood all over her face saying - I'm ok, I'm ok...I just slipped

[Loser]

I make it a point to not have sex with women unless they're sober. It's ok if I'm hammered, just not them

[RBP]

[deebakes]

I make it a point to not have sex with women unless they're sober. It's ok if I'm hammered, just not them

no wonder you're on such a dry spell

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Looks like it was yet another hoax....

"Drunk Girl" Video Is Latest Viral Hoax
The Smoking Gun




NOVEMBER 12--The viral video claiming to show a series of men plotting to take advantage of a drunk Los Angeles woman was staged by the clip’s creators, who fed lines to the purported predators, dupes who thought they were appearing in a student film, The Smoking Gun has learned.

The video, “Drunk Girl In Public,” is described as a “social experiment” by creator Stephen Zhang, 20, who apparently sought to ride the coattails of the 35 milllion-view Hollaback! video showing a woman being peppered with catcalls as she walked across New York City.

Zhang’s video, shot on Hollywood Boulevard, has been viewed nearly 4.5 million times since it was uploaded to YouTube on November 8.

The clip stars actress Jennifer Box, 24, who teeters on high heels while drinking from a paper bag. The clip portrays the tipsy Box as prey being stalked by the men she encounters.

When one of the men seen in the clip complained bitterly about his portrayal as a wannabe rapist, one of the video’s creators sent a private Facebook message advising him to, “Just go with it dude, you are in our team now and we will take care of you.”

The men shown in the video--each of whom is seen trying to lure Box to their residence or vehicle--were recruited by Zhang and sidekick Seth Leach, who, days before the video was shot, wrote on his Facebook page that he was, “Shooting some videos in LA all day Thursday and need a good actress. If you live in Los Angeles or have a friend who does and is an actress, tag them/hit me up!”

According to two sources familiar with the clip’s production, the men in the video were approached on the street to take part in a “comedic, hidden camera” video. One source, who said he declined an invitation to be in the video, told TSG that he was told the production was a “student video.” He added that the film crew did not ask for participants to sign releases or any other “paperwork.”

One of the supposed sleazeballs in the video--an African-American man wearing a green shirt--is a street musician named "Ashtray" who plays buckets on Hollywood Boulevard.

Josh Blaine, the shaggy-haired man wearing sunglasses in the video, drives a Hollywood tour bus. In a message to his Facebook friends, Blaine said that he did “a favor for some camera crew guess this is what I get for being agreeable to someones project.” He added that, “it was supposed to be a funny skit. here's to watching my back with virtually no friends. fuck my life.”

Another man seen at the end of the video tells Box, “You’re in no shape to be walking around like this,” and offers to take her to his place, where he has “more beer.” The man, Mike “Mokii” Koshak, works as a sales rep for LA Epic, a firm that arranges nightclub crawls. Stationed in Hollywood, Koshak tries to sell tickets to tourists and other customers.

Koshak’s boss, LA Epic owner Christine Peters, told TSG that “Mokii was taken advantage of” when asked to “say a couple of lines for a comedy sketch.” Peters said, “They made it seem like he was trying to take the girl home.” Since the name of Peters’s company can be seen on Koshak’s t-shirt and hat, Peters said she was upset the firm had been “dragged into it,” since “we don’t condone such behavior.”

In a Facebook post, Koshak assured friends that the video “was all staged and all of the people in it were acting,” adding that the clip “does not portray myself or any of the other people in it correctly.” He noted that, “it's a false ass portrayal and I was lied to about what the video even was. Faulty ass shit.”

In response to those protestations, Leach, 22, sent Koshak a private Facebook message acknowledging that the video was staged. “The important thing to consider," Leach wrote, "is that this video is going to get you well known and have a future with us and our company."

After promisisng Koshak a night of free drinks, Leach said, “We are going to be huge and you are apart of it. Just go with it dude, you are in our team now and we will take care of you.”

In a Facebook post yesterday crowing about the viral success of “Drunk Girl In Public,” Leach wrote that the clip was “on the homepage of pretty much every news and media website you can think of.” He then told of “heading out to LA again tomorrow and creating some more viral videos for your viewing and learning pleasure!”

He closed the message by noting, “We are the dream team!,” and tagging the Facebook pages of Zhang, Box, and soundman Chris Olmedo.

[FBD]

I thought it was pretty obvious just by watching it

[deebakes]

me too