Post Barney Frank joke here.
It’s pretty funny to some unless it’s you or your child. A few prosecutions of these events as class one sexual assaults might take dome of the humor out of it for the perpetrators.
And no, I don’t lack a sense of humor, I just don’t think sadists should have a “get out of jail free” card
Boston Ping!
I have a feeling that a Pledge - Master and 1 or more Alpha Epsilon Pi members are soon to find out what jail pledge hazing is all about.
I’d recommend that college kids not join fraternities, sororities or attend their parties . . . as the old saying goes: I wouldn’t want to belong to any group that would have me as a member. I intentionally chose a college with the frat system because even at that young age I knew tribalism was something to avoid.
-Animal House-
back in the olden days (when I was little) frats used to haze people to see if you could man-up enough to take it
Hazing was performed by older, responsible brothers who went through it themselves and so the shared experience formed a lifelong bond... not enjoyable, many can disagree.. but that was what it was
I was ‘hazed and hell no I am not going to tell you about it- but afterwards I learned there was always someone watching over us for our safety when we thought we were about to die, because they really did care- learning that was a revalation and bonding experience in itself
these days is is immature, stupid, and irresponsible children who saw or heard about a frat hazing and decided it was all about being cool and torturing others for the cheap thrill of it- not a brotherly experience at all
Never understood the sick tradition of this. But don't make yourself a victim.
Back in the day, the individualists pledged Gamma Delta Iota (aka - G Damned Independents). Life gives us hazing enough, not to mention DI’s in Basic.
To complete Hell Week, instead of being annointed with food items, and left indoors, my fraternity then drove us 100 miles to the desert in the winter.
We were dropped between 5 and ten miles from the main highway, to walk back. We had some guys that cried, but none who quit.
Reaching the main highway at dawn, we had a dime to call for rides. We called family and friends, not the police.
Two fraternity members now serve as judges, on the county Superior Court. (This hazing stuff is supposed to be sacred secret).
Along with the entitlement society, goes inability to suffer challenges which build character.
Mark Zuckerburg’s fraternity, as well as my brother AND dad. I never felt the need to join one. Just as good, I’d have blood in my eyes right now if this happened to me . . .
This is the same stupid BS that happens at camp. Bunch a loons were doing crap to kids at 2am; dragging them outta their bunks and shaving a leg or something. They came for me I came out with a 4-1/2 inch fishing knife and offered to fillet the firs SOB who laid a hand on me. The hazing s#!+ stopped dead cold right there.
I like good fun, a decent roast, and a good ribbing as much as the next guy; you TOUCH me and you’re an ER case — like — NOW.
Fathers and Mothers, look to your daughters - because if you don’t, others will.
>> Five nearly naked college students were found shivering in a Brighton basement... police say it’s an underground fraternity
OK, that fits... now if they had found them in the *attic*, *that* would be strange.
I belonged to “I Tappa Keg” in college.