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Johnny2X2X
(23,090 posts)To reduce human beings to that term and compete in this way is simply evil and disgusting.
And who are these idiots kidding, 74% of the people in the US are overweight, so what are they really getting at? They're competing to have sex with normal Americans?
JohnSJ
(98,883 posts)Haggard Celine
(17,312 posts)They're associated with a lot of negative facets of college life: alcoholism, date rape, hazing, elitism. They don't all behave like depraved animals, but fraternities seem to be the perfect petri dish for groups of men to explore their dark side. At the very least, colleges should keep them on a short leash and ban individual fraternities when they're caught doing something seriously wrong.
LiberalFighter
(53,544 posts)It should also include on site monitors paid by the frat/sorority. Alcohol needs to be completely banned.
tenderfoot
(8,982 posts)I cannot believe it's still a thing.
DetroitLegalBeagle
(2,406 posts)Its been around as far back as I remember.
tenderfoot
(8,982 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)JanMichael
(25,669 posts)One of my quad joined and he was the worst person I met in college.
ProfessorGAC
(73,663 posts)When I was an undergrad, the fraternity basketball league allowed each frat to have 2 team members not in the frat.
I was asked each year by 6 to 8 of the frats.
Every year, I picked the team with the least objectionable members. Not the best fellas. The least annoying & objectionable!
While there were a few guys in TEK that I thought were on dudes, I wouldn't play with the jock frat because...too many high school football players. My experience was that there was a 1% chance a HS football could be basketball worth a damn!
I still wanted to win, after all.
We had one frat, where I swear every member was premed or prelaw. Not one guy in that frat was someone I'd be willing to spend 5 minutes with.
I was GDI, and proud of it.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)yelling lewd stuff at women, etc. I could just see one of those aholes trying to haze me.
I used to laugh like hell when a professor would change their exam from the ones in the fraternity test files that they used to cheat. They'd look at the test, see the questions were different. and you'd hear collective groans. I'd just keep answering because I spent every spare minute studying.
My guess is that they all went on to be millionaires by making other people do intellectual work, lying to clients, offering entertainment approaching pimping to big customers, etc.
Fullduplexxx
(8,529 posts)MineralMan
(149,504 posts)RussBLib
(9,958 posts)They think maybe some frat likes them, and then they all barge in and belittle her?
omg
highplainsdem
(57,447 posts)jalan48
(14,907 posts)co-workers. Some people are just cruel.
maxsolomon
(36,927 posts)like a Cleveland Steamer or a Blumpkin.
Assuming it is real, frat boys should stop doing this.
hlthe2b
(110,718 posts)I hope someone steps in to help their victims.
Froggyproggy
(50 posts)Many males, whether in the fraternity system or not have undertaken this type of behavior. Its a common practice and the terminology is unfortunately more widespread than is being reported.
obamanut2012
(28,653 posts)Young men do to young women.
Movie is "Dogfight."
maxsolomon
(36,927 posts)I referred to it upthread as "recent", lol.
obamanut2012
(28,653 posts)I saw it in the theater -- it seems like five years ago.
DBoon
(23,984 posts)ow many frat members advance in their career due to their fraternity connections?
jcgoldie
(12,046 posts)
chowder66
(10,986 posts)Jimbo S
(3,033 posts)Wow, am I naïve.
Disaffected
(5,765 posts)Reminds me of "Ugly Parties" where a frat would hold a competition to see who could bring the ugliest girl to a party.
Raine
(30,899 posts)
NickB79
(19,991 posts)cinematicdiversions
(1,969 posts)This was a thing in the eighties and, I am sure, in the sixties as well. And the forties... and ancient Roman outposts in Gaul... Anywhere men are drunk assholes, I would assume.
WhiskeyGrinder
(25,343 posts)BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)Wonder how things might change if women started something like this against overweight men?
This is all rooted in misogyny.
WhiskeyGrinder
(25,343 posts)Elessar Zappa
(16,335 posts)Initech
(105,693 posts)New depths are reached on a daily basis.