Posted on 09/05/2011 6:29:10 AM PDT by flowerplough
AT Duke University last fall, members of the Sigma Nu fraternity e-mailed 300 of their female classmates about an off-campus Halloween party. “Hey Ladies,” the invitation leered, complete with a misspelling, “Whether your dressing up as a slutty nurse, a slutty doctor, a slutty schoolgirl or just a total slut, we invite you...” Yes, there was outrage: in the form of fliers plastered around the Duke campus reprinting the offending e-mail and asking, “Is this why you came to Duke?” And there was official indignation: The recently formed Greek Women’s Initiative will be tackling the subject of gender relations.
But a less-noted fact remains: hundreds of Duke women went to that Halloween party and many dressed as they had been asked.
As parents around the country send their children to campuses for the start of another academic year, what are we to make of the fact that lessons of equality, respect and self-worth have been heard when it comes to the classroom, but lost somewhere on the way to the clubs? Why has the pendulum swung back to a feeling that sexualization of women is fun and funny rather than insulting and uncomfortable? Why are so many women O.K. with that?
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
DEATH TO FRAT BOYS.
I Am Charlotte Simmons?
Hmmmm, might be all those “slut walks” that the feminist are sponsoring would it? Na, that can’t be it who would actually take women at their word for how they describe themselves?
OMG...Frat boy’s like slutty girls....
Who woudda’ thought?
So maybe the Duke frat bro's were just playing the odds.... :)
I’ll bet more than a few slatterns will show up.
Interesting you would say that, when I just got a new idea for my Halloween party.
I never understood the popularity or glamour of fraternities or sororities. I guess I went to college to learn and get a degree. I didn’t go to pay extra money to live in a house with “sisters” that I hated. I also didn’t go to get sloshed out of my mind. Frat boys have had a “reputation” for being hard drinkers and womanizers since I was a young adult (and probably a lot longer than that). Stupid is...
Just yesterday I passed a Halloween store, and all the ‘costumes’ displayed in the windows were of the slutty variety. All of them.
They may have lost their chapter at the school for various infractions after I graduated, but I really didn't pay all that much attention to the Greek system.
“... all the costumes displayed in the windows were of the slutty variety”.
This is neither here nor there but children’s Halloween costumes have become “slutty” as well. There are some toddler and young child costumes of pimps. I’m not even going to get into some of the little girl costumes. It would curl your hair.
That is exactly right - - I am Charlotte Simmons - Thomas Wolfe nailed it. It is a worthwhile read for parents of college age offspring - especially daughters!!
“OMG...Frat boy’s like slutty girls....”
Or, could the answer be as simple as... girls like to get laid too?
Because they feel they have nothing else of value? It doesn’t happen overnight.
Mike Nifong really should use spell checker.
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