dealyndus: takingbackourculture: micdotcom: Old Dominon fraternity hangs disgusting banner to welcom
dealyndus:takingbackourculture:micdotcom:Old Dominon fraternity hangs disgusting banner to welcome freshmen girlsEven in the best of situations, dropping off a child at college can be a stressful experience. But some students at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, apparently decided to make “welcome week” a little worse for parents and arriving freshmen (Top image.) The signs that appeared at ODU aren’t the only ones popping up on the nation’s campuses. Total Frat Move posted a few other photographs apparently showing similar incidents at other colleges, describing them as “hilarious.”Old Dominion President John R. Broderick was quick to react to the situation on his campus, relaying an interaction he had with a new female student who thought about going home — and how he promises to take action.Nothing to do with racism or CA but freshmen, stay safe. -DamiThis of course initially makes me angry and sick because it’s all extremely infuriating and disgusting in itself, but it’s times like these that I think about how now college administrations are wringing their hands about having a Rolling Stone situation happening on their campus. How the only push universities are making against rape culture are kindergarten-level seminars about how you should ASK someone if they want to get sexual with you before you act. How I had to hear about a man who made a smartphone app that records two people consenting to sex on NPR during a piece on preventing college sexual assault. These sorts of nasty fucking signs have been being put up every fall semester around campuses around the country for years. Until something like this blows up and someone’s gotta make a comment, nobody wants to talk about how men and boys are brought up to fucking hate women and see us as goddamn blow-up doll punching bags. Nobody wants to talk about misogyny in their weak campus sexual assault seminars no matter how much it plays into it. Literally nobody in power at these universities has the shit to say that young men being incapable of treating girls and women like autonomous people is extremely fucked up on a “you’re literally being the worst person” level.Obviously rape & sexual predation in general aren’t just committed by cis men against women (if I don’t make this comment here someone’s going to see a reblog of it and come at me with the “NOT ALL MEN/SOMETIMES WOMEN” & also I don’t want to alienate survivors/victims who don’t identify as either) but pushing how much men hate women out of the picture helps no one when it contributes to so much of this shit. -- source link
#rape culture#misogyny#male socialization