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Do Frats Contribute To A Culture Of Sexual Assault?
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Sat Dec 19
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Maybe I'm a little too black and white on this issue, but I don't think it's ever about sex. It is about power and nothing else.
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However, there is stupid shit like when another frat made a shirt with some cartoon panels on the back; the final panel said something to the effect of Girls Love Sig Ep Dick. Really classy, I know.
This same frat - the Sig Eps - is also the frat whose members abducted and KILLED a dog that belonged to a rival frat. As far as I know, the police were never able to prove that they killed the dog but everyone familiar with the story knew the truth.
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Now one thing though that I find interesting about American frats is how classed and homogenous they are. Because you have to pay to get in and it's not cheap they end up being this exclusively upper-middle class/well-connected highly-educated middle-class millieu.
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There is some truth to stereotypes, and granted, it depends on the environment school to school, but in my experience at a major state university with a mid-size Greek system, assholes stick together -- meaning that slimy dudes may be the majority in a certain frat, but not in all of them, and that you're just as likely to find groups of predators in the Hawaii Club, the investment group, or the campus bars.
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But I did some asking around and she was right. It had happened at least twice or three times.
What I find most interesting about frats is the performance of it. It reminds me of atrocities in the army that way....where you have a group of guys and maybe one or two of them are really depraved but the others are just people who acquiesce because they don't want to be seen as weak or as outside the group.
The people I feel sorriest for in life are what I term the frat boy lackeys; the ones who are let in to be part of the cheer chorus or the peanut gallery and whose real personalities are entirely subsumed in the culture of the frat.
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Many guys, especially college-age or slightly older, are often grossly insecure in their manhood and try to prove themselves and get laid in all the wrong ways. Living in a city and being in the Greek system has shown me this overwhelmingly, but I haven't seen that a higher percentage of Greeks are like this. In fact, the president of one of the most prominent fraternities is a gay black guy. I know this is definitely not the norm in most other places...but I kind of hesitate to paint all fraternity guys under this stereotypical brush, though. Stereotypes are never a good thing.
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Why do girls still go to frat parties? It was one and done for me when I was in school.
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But it's good to know that my self-earned "loose" reputation would have made frat boys avoid me. Had I gone to a normal college when I was typical college age.
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This explains a lot... whenever I've acted slutty with guys and slept with them right off the bat, they always seem to have more respect for me than when I have sex with them after a period of making them wait. Interesting.
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They just pick up litter around campus, set up campus study groups, and throw Grillouts to celebrate the start of the year. That's about all they do. But I dunno about the organization in general.
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