Posts Tagged ‘fraternities’
Fraternity Accused of Stealing 10,000 Student Newspapers to Cover Up Date Rape Story
As it turns out, I’m not the only one hoping that the widespread media coverage of date rape drugging will die down a bit. A fraternity on the University of Arizona campus has been accused of sabotaging 10,000 campus newspapers in order to cover up a small item in which a woman alleged having been drugged and possibly sexually assaulted at one of the frat’s parties.
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Frat Boys at GW Rush to Undo Homophobic Stereotypes
Beta Testing: Brothers Zelenty, Belok, and Molldrem try something new.
According to fraternal historian Nicholas Syrett, America’s fraternity culture has thrived on a fear of homosexuality since the 1920’s. All-male fraternal organizations, Syrett writes, “compensate for what might be perceived by outsiders as either feminine or gay behavior by enacting a masculinity [of] aggressive heterosexuality.” In order to preempt homosexual interpretations of the fraternal bond, the brothers employ ritualistic paddling, frat house sex, and homophobic epithets to fight their way back to straight.
The Syrettian fraternal tradition poses some pre-professional problems for the young men on the campus of George Washington University.
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Date Rape Ain’t Just For Frat Boys
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal furthers the frat boy stereotype with this date-rape cartoon:
How about we get more to the point and call it: People Who Shouldn’t Have Sex: Rapists.
Date Rape Anthem: Asher Roth’s “I Love College”
Date Rape Anthem: Asher Roth’s “I Love College”
Relevant Lyrics:
I can’t tell you what I learned from school but
I could tell you a story or two, um
Yeah, of course I learned some rules
Like don’t pass out with your shoes on (get the sharpie)And don’t leave the house ’til the booze gone (no we’re not leaving)
And don’t have sex if she’s too gone
When it comes to condoms put two on (trust me)
Then tomorrow night find a new jawn
Why It’s So Rapey: On the surface, Roth’s love-letter to undergraduate debauchery condemns date rape (”don’t have sex if she’s too gone”). So why would this Village Voice detractor call the Morrisville, Pa. rapper’s first album “nothing more than a soundtrack for date rape”?
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