Debunking the Myth of Evil Fraternities
In a recent column for Politico, writer Peg Tyre defended fraternities from the many stereotypes which are heaped upon them.
Don’t Blame the Frats
This year’s monster: Fraternities. As Gawker put it, “No fraternity, no gang rape.” As the Guardian said, “It’s time to talk about banning fraternities.” Bloomberg View decided: “On balance, most campuses would be better off without [them].”
To hear some tell it, fraternities are filled with gangs of leering, entitled deviants who have traded their individual morality for the opportunity to engage in a frenzy of wanton assault. They lie in wait, red plastic cups in hand, preying on defenseless young women. To read the commentary about sexual assault on campus, we’ve never encountered anything quite this bad. The victims are “everywoman”—young, bright-eyed ambitious female students. The evil-doers are made all the more insidious because they hide in plain sight—masquerading as sexually inexperienced 19 years olds.
Actually, we have encountered this before. Just ask comic book writers—the victims of a crusade in the 1940s and 50s that blamed comic books for everything from juvenile delinquency to teen homosexuality. Spurred by Congressional hearings and comic book burnings, the panic upended an industry.
Just ask the operators of the McMartin pre-school in California, who, in the middle 1980s, were accused of performing satanic rituals with their young charges. Or revisit some of the fear mongering journalism about “wolf packs” circa late 1980s New York City. In a crime ridden city, groups of young African-American men were the object of great fear and intense law enforcement scrutiny. Now, you can now add fraternity members to the list. We’ve seen moral panics before. And we are seeing one again.
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Sorry, but I’m not buying.
Rapes can happen anywhere, but the frats have been well known for spiking punch and pulling inebriated girls into far away rooms since I was in college in the late 70s.
In my freshman year, our RA explicitly warned us that if we went to the frats we should not:
drink the punch (it was usually grain alcohol and sometimes laced with quaaludes;
drink anything out of any open container, and only drink a bottle we ourselves opened);
get separated from the groups (the frat was known to have a room where they took freshman girls); etc.
Now, all of that advice is online:
http://www.hercampus.com/life/campus-living/freshman-girl-s-guide-frat-parties
Thanks for the link but I’m still against them as being young fake elites. I only talked to one and it didn’t impress me one bit. It’s an isolated environment with parties full time and organized cheating on tests as well. It’s glorifying the Greek barbarian culture and students should all live in the dorms at least their first year to experience allot more and healthier stuff. It will help them make a better choice of Frats/people in college and life. Your link proves the truths of frats causing bad ” wolfpack/group think” behavior and not adding much/any value to campus life.
But what does anyone expect from our Commie ” education ” they get in schools. It’s the celebration of their devient/degenerate lifestyles by young punks. I also assume being Greek has it’s own ” social” pecking order based on everything we supposedly object to…I’m also wondering about the yearly cost compared to 5 guys renting a house usually after their sophomore year..Please think because I’m 57 and it’s really hasn’t changed with everything old is ” new” to young Google stupid punks. It makes the case for age 26 to vote given all of the sheer Google stupidity we see on almost every campus in the US. See their uber sick Commie union teachers being much dumber than their students and teaching “America is broken”. Took me over 30+ years to unlearn all of their exact same Commie crap at uber CU Boulder” they still teach today.
You just can’t miss them appointing a loud/proud NABLA Pedophile as our first Safe Schools Czar that’s ” still wanted by the FBI”.. going on 4+ years..See Hannity reporting it before it gets yanked and one reason Obama tried to have him fired.. You just can’t miss all of their female teachers raping our kids at almost one per week and now carrying guns…Google the Oreilly/ Jessee Watters interview our loud/proud CO DNC Chair Dennis ” the menace” denying Jessica’s Law for their constant ” bigger/better plan that hasn’t/will never be done. It’s the most horrific child crime only CO and WA STILL refuse. We don’t miss their females posing as ” women” while always denying the most vulnerable the best/cheapest means of self defense every time. They say ” do/say anything but never ever use a gun no matter what”; others say ” just submit”.
It’s time to stop funding these ” schools” being Commie Maddrasa’s just like the uber corrupt, fake UN ” Pallistinian Schools. Defund them all as rabid Antisemites. Me? I say a huge Class Action to refund my money and pay damages for this eternal fraud. Read American Betrayal to see their true sordid history of Treason…