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?
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I thought one of the major raisons d’etre of college and at least some post-college Halloween parties was for the laydayz to dress to impress in that fashion.
I am thinking farther back in history for females in general. I do think that women who wanted to civilize their men and raise their families in peace was behind the drive toward the family and the stabiliztion of civilization.
The women were the force, but sadly it all broke down and they are now only acting on their biological urges (not all).
We are in basic agreement, however.
This is a great thread- so many great points!
We are in basic agreement here
“I love my slattern!”
“When better women are made, Faber men will make them.”
Good that we agree.
I believe that feminism has been highjacked by the feminists themselves, by pressures they did not understand.
sorry - meant women were behind the drive - (I don’t like bad sentence structure either)
Thank you for using the word “slattern”. I haven’t seen that one in decades.
Cheers!
So you were GRITS (Girl Raised In The South) and as you became older you turned into SLUTS?
Sounds like a reality TV show in the making....
Ah, but today, through the good graces of the “Government Family” so loudly promoted by Wilson, FDR, LBJ, Carter and (Hillary) Clinton and most especially Obama, the government is trying it best (worst ?) to become the “male of the house” who supports a woman from birth - if not aborted - through death's cocoon.
With no room for men or Gods.
Har! I did get in trouble once for having a calculator—you know, a weapon of math instruction.
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