How on earth are we still having bucks’ nights in 2024? How are we still thinking it’s OK for a bunch of blokes to go out, get wasted, abuse women and then pretend to be saints on their wedding days? How are they even managing their marriage celebrations? Sure, not all men. Perhaps not even most. The buck’s party: a time-honoured tradition, or past its time? Credit: iStock However, amid the horror we all read this week of three men who gang raped three teenagers during a buck’s party weekend, one surprising detail emerged.
Surprising at least to me. In 2024, men and women are still participating in rituals that belong in the last century. Maybe the century before that.
What is a buck’s night? British researchers call it a rite of passage, a pre-marriage celebration. Same with a hen’s night. Plus what’s with the language here? Stags? Yeah, right, that’s a bit of self-aggrandisement right there.
Limber. Sturdy. Endless energy.
Unstoppable antlers. And what’s with hens? Am I just going to sit on eggs for the rest of my life and cluck? We get girls’ nights out, anyway. Loading What are these rituals celebrating? A lifetime of commitment? Hardly.
The average length of a marriage in Australia these days is 13 years. The average age of getting married for a man is 32. That means you can probably squeeze in three marriages if you play your cards wrong.
What is the precise point of an event based on ideals we barely kept to, even when we were married forever? Never.
