Excellent article, and your points are true, too, gobucks.
My daughter had to move out of the dorms at one point because she couldn't stand sharing a room with another girl - and that girl's "date" of the moment. They would simply parade in and get down to business in the twin bed about 5 feet away from my daughter's bed.
I now live near the University of Florida, where the sorority girls are referred to as "sorostitutes." This is because they are literally call girls for their fraternity "big brothers," who simply pick up the phone and call in a sorority girl whenever they want, sort of like ordering a pizza.
But the kids I have met here through GOP activities tell me that it's very rough for people who don't have that mentality, because they are made to feel like misfits and losers. One of them told me that girls did heavy drinking (swilling vodka straight out of the bottle) so that they wouldn't mind or remember the other things they were going to have to do that night.
"One of them told me that girls did heavy drinking (swilling vodka straight out of the bottle) so that they wouldn't mind or remember the other things they were going to have to do that night."
This is consistent with the reports I have heard, and what I witnessed. In effect, booze is sort of a required medication in order to endure being 'cool' all day long on stage, and worse, endure being 'in' at night. There were very, very few folks I encountered who honestly CHOSE heavy drinking b/c they really liked it. It was simply the ticket they had to punch, and evidently still do.
What was new for me to really think about was how the co-ed dorm scene is actually fueling more drinking. Not b/c again it is all that great ... but because the women know, if they don't drink, they will not be 'in'.
"sorostitutes" .... wow. That's a new one.
"Chi-O, Chi-O, it's off to bed we go..."