“Cornell Fetch,” a website that lets visitors rank sorority sisters, has garnered massive amounts of outrage and page views — more than a million hits in three days. Undergrads feel objectified, university officials are disturbed, and the founders are absolutely loving it. One of them spoke to us about why they feel the need to mansplain the patriarchy to their female peers.
Cornell Fetch works much like Mark Zuckberg’s first rendition of Facebook: it allows users to choose between Facebook photos of women in sororities next to their Greek affiliation. Do you like Rachel from SDT or Liana from Kappa Delta? Is Theta’s Brittany hotter than Amelia from Phi Sig Sig? Cornell Fetch doesn’t actually ask you to rate whom you find more appealing — the user decides for him or herself. And therein lies the brilliance, according to Teddy,* one of the site’s founders and an undergraduate at Cornell. The goal of Cornell Fetch, he told us, is to expose a “sorority hierarchy” that’s “generally known of but not acknowledged.” So what if they humiliate women by posting their photos online and forcing them to participate in a ranking game without their consent? Girls are catty and judge each other, anyway! It’s ironic.
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