{"id":69,"date":"2008-02-02T18:30:15","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T22:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/?p=69"},"modified":"2017-10-31T20:05:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T00:05:05","slug":"youd-prefer-if-they-hated-yale-sluts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/2008\/02\/02\/youd-prefer-if-they-hated-yale-sluts\/","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019d prefer if they HATED Yale sluts?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was reading the Hartford Courant<\/a><\/i>, and I found out that some Yale frat boys went to a game and held up a sign: \u201cWE LOVE YALE SLUTS.\u201d Naturally, people are complaining about it.<\/p>\n

What ever happened to free speech? These fraternity members shouldn\u2019t be punished at all. If we start punishing people for being idiots 99% of the country would be in jail. It does not work both ways, women in general cannot ask to be placed on a pedestal and at the same time act like drunk sailors. Respect is something that is earned. What\u2019s the big deal? Boys will be boys, especially in college. Look at the popular \u201crole models\u201d: Paris Hilton, Nicole Ritchie, etc\u2026 no one seems to mind that THEY are sluts.<\/p>\n

The women need to let it go, and not be some damn uptight over the situation. Get on with learning and doing something more productive. Going to college means getting an education. And these kids certainly have gotten one with their prank. The lesson learned is: If you are a man, you do not make jokes about women. You just don\u2019t do it, no matter how funny or innocent or transient it may be.<\/p>\n

When did everyone lose their sense of humor? Does Yale require you turn it in upon admission? I thought the PC craze disappeared years ago. These very same women are the one at the frat parties dropping there pants I\u2019m sure. We are no longer allowed to joke or have a bit of silly fun. We must all keep our heads down, our mouths shut and our hands in our pockets, well except if you are a comedian of a certain race, then it\u2019s \u201cfunny\u201d when a joke is told about a person of another race. Tell the prissy pigs to bag it & grow up!<\/p>\n

College boys can be crude and unruly any female who has higher education knows that! She usually also knows how to roll her eyes and move on! Stop sweating the small stuff sweeties!! Life can be a lot tougher than horny heckling from some fellow ivy leaguers! Frat pledges do something stupid and tasteless things. Is this news to anyone?<\/p>\n

Some one needs to learn how to laugh at themselves\u2026 We are a society full of bleeding hearts who will grasp at any straw just to feel accepted. This is unbelievable. So what? Some kids had a sign that was stupid and crude\u2026 Please tell me why this is such an affront? They\u2019re young and stupid, let them enjoy it while they can for heavens sake. Why have we raised children with such a critical lack of self esteem that some fools with a stupid sign who were probably drunk off their asses \u201churts their feelings.\u201d If the kids beat a feminist I could understand the outcry, but this is ridiculous.<\/p>\n

The university is too worried about being politically correct than it is concerned with the perception of the average American who realizes this is JUST A JOKE! As a member of a national fraternity, I realize this isn\u2019t the classiest thing to do. But lighten up! There are a lot bigger problems in our world than a blurry picture of a message some drunk 18yo scratched on a piece of paper! Step back and put this in perspective<\/p>\n

A message for the women who are upset about this: Get back in the kitchen. Oh yeah, and dinner BETTER be on the table when I get home from work. Was it in poor taste? Sure. Nevertheless, how insecure are you to take it to this extreme? In addition, why would you project your own insecurities in crowds of people or \u201cmen\u201d as you say on others?<\/p>\n

Liberty is being able to say what you want to say even if no one likes it. Martin Luther King\u2019s \u201cI have a dream\u201d speech did not say, \u201cI have a dream that one day my children and women will be treated better than other children.\u201d His dream was to be treated the same perhaps that should be all of our dreams. These women need to get over themselves. Women are now the majority on campus and men the minority, I say protect the minority\u2019s right to expression! They should only get so worked up over honor killings. 95% of guys (who are not gay) would just laugh at this. I\u2019m sure the bitches at the Yale Women\u2019s Center will get over it. These sluts need to grow up.<\/p>\n

\u2026 I hope that some readers were shocked by what is written above. I don\u2019t have any defense for it, and I don\u2019t need any. That\u2019s because I didn\u2019t write it (except for the first graf). Rather, this kettleful of testicular idiocy is a patchwork of readers\u2019 comments posted after the article on the Courant website.<\/p>\n

The Courant editors give the frat boys a pass right off the bat in the article title: \u201cPledges\u2019 Prank Rankles At Yale\u201d. See? Chill out, ladies! It\u2019s just a prank, not a manifestation of an epidemic attitude of masculine superiority. Just a prank: not just an unusually visible example of the common, rampant hostility toward women.<\/p>\n

It is staggering to me that so many men are willing to make excuses for anyone who derives amusement at the derogation of someone else. I\u2019ll say here, as I have said elsewhere and will continue to say, loudly and to whomever is willing to hear it: we need to return to a culture of shame. Let\u2019s not blame just the sign-maker, the sign-holder, and those in crowd who sniggered when they saw the sign. Our indignation needs to be directed at everyone around them who failed to decry this detestable behavior. And of course at the commentators whose words I stitched together for this blog post. So righteously they defend the right of man to derogate woman; so cowardly they hide their identity behind online anonymity.<\/p>\n

For more about feminism at Yale: junior Jessica Svendsen argues coolly and cogently in the Yale Daily News<\/a><\/i> that despite gender parity among the undergraduate population, the \u201cpaucity of female faculty\u201d continues to send a message of feminine inferiority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was reading the Hartford Courant, and I found out that some Yale frat boys went to a game and held up a sign: \u201cWE LOVE YALE SLUTS.\u201d Naturally, people are complaining about it. What ever happened to free speech? These fraternity members shouldn\u2019t be punished at all. If we start punishing people for being … Continue reading You\u2019d prefer if they HATED Yale sluts?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7073,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5],"tags":[6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}