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"Hogging" Is A Horrifying Sex Competition That Some Fraternities Engage In, And People Are Finally (Original Post) Celerity Nov 2021 OP
Sick and disgusting Johnny2X2X Nov 2021 #1
Sounds like there are fraternities that need to be shut down, and people kicked out of university JohnSJ Nov 2021 #2
Sometimes I wonder if colleges should even allow fraternities. Haggard Celine Nov 2021 #11
They need to be regulated by the university. LiberalFighter Nov 2021 #26
I heard about this back in the 1980s from a guy that went to Syracuse University tenderfoot Nov 2021 #3
Yea, this isn't remotely a new thing DetroitLegalBeagle Nov 2021 #6
There was an episode of 'Cold Case' that talks about it. tenderfoot Nov 2021 #13
Never liked fraternities and most of the members. Hoyt Nov 2021 #4
You and me both. I was asked to pledge in 1990 and politely declined. JanMichael Nov 2021 #30
Add Me, Too! ProfessorGAC Nov 2021 #31
Get it. Fraternity row where I went had big confederate flags on the front porches, drunk members Hoyt Nov 2021 #34
Jeezuz... what human filth Fullduplexxx Nov 2021 #5
Disgusting Assholes! MineralMan Nov 2021 #7
those poor girls RussBLib Nov 2021 #8
Horrifying. highplainsdem Nov 2021 #9
This kind of stuff was happening at the smelter I worked at in the late 60's with some of my jalan48 Nov 2021 #10
Always thought this was a fake thing, despite there being a recent movie about it maxsolomon Nov 2021 #12
Damned sociopaths. Who (what) raised these "creatures." hlthe2b Nov 2021 #14
This has been a thing for a while Froggyproggy Nov 2021 #15
Excellent 1991 movie starring Lili Taylor all about this type of stuff obamanut2012 Nov 2021 #16
OMG, 1991? maxsolomon Nov 2021 #24
lol I know obamanut2012 Nov 2021 #32
remeber that fraternities are finishing school for the next generation of senior management DBoon Nov 2021 #17
or future supreme court justices... jcgoldie Nov 2021 #18
Is there a frat that isn't a cesspool of depraved psychopaths? chowder66 Nov 2021 #19
First I'm hearing of this Jimbo S Nov 2021 #20
Good Grief Disaffected Nov 2021 #21
and these "men" will one day be "leaders" of companies and "leaders" in goverment one day. 👎nt Raine Nov 2021 #22
This has been a thing for decades now NickB79 Nov 2021 #23
As we all recall with a former PM in England they use actual pigs. cinematicdiversions Nov 2021 #25
One of the last acceptable bigotries, as I posted earlier today. WhiskeyGrinder Nov 2021 #27
It's disgusting. BlackSkimmer Nov 2021 #28
They wouldn't, because fat bigotry is one of the last acceptable bigotries. WhiskeyGrinder Nov 2021 #29
Even here, sadly. Elessar Zappa Nov 2021 #33
Every day when I feel like people can't possibly sink any lower... Initech Nov 2021 #35

Johnny2X2X

(23,090 posts)
1. Sick and disgusting
Wed Nov 17, 2021, 12:53 PM
Nov 2021

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)
2. Sounds like there are fraternities that need to be shut down, and people kicked out of university
Wed Nov 17, 2021, 12:54 PM
Nov 2021

Haggard Celine

(17,312 posts)
11. Sometimes I wonder if colleges should even allow fraternities.
Wed Nov 17, 2021, 01:07 PM
Nov 2021

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)
26. They need to be regulated by the university.
Wed Nov 17, 2021, 07:37 PM
Nov 2021

It should also include on site monitors paid by the frat/sorority. Alcohol needs to be completely banned.

 

tenderfoot

(8,982 posts)
3. I heard about this back in the 1980s from a guy that went to Syracuse University
Wed Nov 17, 2021, 12:57 PM
Nov 2021

I cannot believe it's still a thing.

JanMichael

(25,669 posts)
30. You and me both. I was asked to pledge in 1990 and politely declined.
Wed Nov 17, 2021, 08:33 PM
Nov 2021

One of my quad joined and he was the worst person I met in college.

ProfessorGAC

(73,663 posts)
31. Add Me, Too!
Wed Nov 17, 2021, 08:46 PM
Nov 2021

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)
34. Get it. Fraternity row where I went had big confederate flags on the front porches, drunk members
Wed Nov 17, 2021, 09:29 PM
Nov 2021

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.

RussBLib

(9,958 posts)
8. those poor girls
Wed Nov 17, 2021, 01:05 PM
Nov 2021

They think maybe some frat likes them, and then they all barge in and belittle her?

omg

jalan48

(14,907 posts)
10. This kind of stuff was happening at the smelter I worked at in the late 60's with some of my
Wed Nov 17, 2021, 01:06 PM
Nov 2021

co-workers. Some people are just cruel.

maxsolomon

(36,927 posts)
12. Always thought this was a fake thing, despite there being a recent movie about it
Wed Nov 17, 2021, 01:09 PM
Nov 2021

like a Cleveland Steamer or a Blumpkin.

Assuming it is real, frat boys should stop doing this.

hlthe2b

(110,718 posts)
14. Damned sociopaths. Who (what) raised these "creatures."
Wed Nov 17, 2021, 01:13 PM
Nov 2021

I hope someone steps in to help their victims.

 

Froggyproggy

(50 posts)
15. This has been a thing for a while
Wed Nov 17, 2021, 01:18 PM
Nov 2021

Many males, whether in the fraternity system or not have undertaken this type of behavior. It’s a common practice and the terminology is unfortunately more widespread than is being reported.

obamanut2012

(28,653 posts)
16. Excellent 1991 movie starring Lili Taylor all about this type of stuff
Wed Nov 17, 2021, 01:31 PM
Nov 2021

Young men do to young women.

Movie is "Dogfight."

DBoon

(23,984 posts)
17. remeber that fraternities are finishing school for the next generation of senior management
Wed Nov 17, 2021, 01:32 PM
Nov 2021

ow many frat members advance in their career due to their fraternity connections?

Disaffected

(5,765 posts)
21. Good Grief
Wed Nov 17, 2021, 04:40 PM
Nov 2021

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)
22. and these "men" will one day be "leaders" of companies and "leaders" in goverment one day. 👎nt
Wed Nov 17, 2021, 04:58 PM
Nov 2021
 

cinematicdiversions

(1,969 posts)
25. As we all recall with a former PM in England they use actual pigs.
Wed Nov 17, 2021, 06:33 PM
Nov 2021

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.


 

BlackSkimmer

(51,308 posts)
28. It's disgusting.
Wed Nov 17, 2021, 07:56 PM
Nov 2021

Wonder how things might change if women started something like this against overweight men?

This is all rooted in misogyny.

Initech

(105,693 posts)
35. Every day when I feel like people can't possibly sink any lower...
Wed Nov 17, 2021, 09:49 PM
Nov 2021

New depths are reached on a daily basis.

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