Alabama’s All-White Sorority Video ‘Completely Sabotages’ Women’s Rights
The University of Alabama’s sororities are already on record as fighting to ban blacks. Now the are coming under fire for a recruitment video.
The video shows a group of all-white and mostly blonde members of Alpha Phi wearing bikinis and “Daisy Duke”-style shorts as they hold hands, give one another piggyback rides and repeatedly blow piles of glitter from their hands.
“It’s all so racially and aesthetically homogeneous and forced, so hyper-feminine, so reductive and objectifying, so Stepford Wives: College Edition,” wrote magazine editor A.L. Bailey for AL.com. “It’s all so … unempowering.”
The video quickly racked up more than 500,000 page views — but Bailey said the target audience seems more to be “hormonal college-aged guys” or “older, male YouTube creepers” rather than prospective pledges to the sorority.
She said the video, which fails to mention any of the sorority’s core values or any community work the group undertakes, “completely sabotages” feminist ideals…
The sorority took down its copy of the video, which remains available online, and the university released a critical statement against it.
“This video is not reflective of UA’s expectations for student organizations to be responsible digital citizens,” said Deborah Lane, associate vice president for university relations. “It is important for student organizations to remember what is posted on social media makes a difference, today and tomorrow, on how they are viewed and perceived.”
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richardstarr August 18th, 2015 at 12:00
I fail to see how this “sabotages women’s rights”.
It basically just looks like a video designed to attract women who want to be around
other attractive women that like having fun. Boring for the most part.
Now if they had been wearing things that said words to the effect that women should
just let men run their lives, pro-life, etc. they might have a point.
The Sorority/Fraternity system is a way to network. They are clubs.
At their best, they provide a group of friends that will let you know what you need to know
to get the best education possible as well as potentially provide you with connections that
will allow you to get a job.
At their worst they are elitist, snobbish, organizations that push group think and provide
tools to get higher grades with less effort and without actually learning anything.
I considered a fraternity when I first went to college, but learned that the average grade
point average took a dump during the initial year and decided not to risk it. That and the dues were not within my means at the time as I was working my way through school as opposed to getting loans to finance it.
Honestly, when all is said and done, this is just a click-bait article. The site is exploiting
these women for their own profit while condemning them for their actions. smh.
*A Girl Can Dream* August 19th, 2015 at 22:41
Feminist getting all bent over about these women and trying to censor them is ok? I just don’t get why they think they can speak for all of us. Feminist sabotage themselves all the time… They don’t need to point at others.
*A Girl Can Dream* August 19th, 2015 at 22:14
So feminist fight to wear what they want anywhere they want, while expecting men to be calm, not respond, and still protect them… They fight to wear things like:
Lingerie
bra with short skirt
Corsets
Vinyl underwear
Clubwear (bandage dresses)
In public. They do this in “slut walks.” They demand to be viewed as respectable, while maintaining they only wear it for themselves, not for men’s reactions. All this while simultaneously claiming they are empowering women In doing these things?.. So it’s demeaning when an all white/mostly blonde and attractive group do it (a group men would actually respond to), while is empowering for butch bitches that most men find revolting even when fully clothed (or after a 6 pack)? You liberals and your “logic” are stupidly and disgustingly entertaining.