Here’s a shocking piece of news for you: College sorority girls prance around, often in rather skimpy clothing, while engaging in generally mindless activities like, er . . . prancing around. They also put on makeup. They also shake their groove thangs and know perfectly well that you’re going to help yourself to a look. And if they want other girls to be interested in joining them, they know that the best way to make that happen is to show themselves, you know . . . prancing around, etc.
As far as the political and cultural left is concerned, here’s an even more shocking piece of information about certain sororities: Many of the girls are white. In some cases, all of them are white. When you combine that with the general nature of college greek organizations in the first place, you end up with promotional videos that appeal to the college girl looking to spend four years partying, but have the exact opposite effect on the enforcers of mandatory “diversity” and hypersensitivity.
So be on notice: The following four-minute video is not to be watched. It is not empowering. It is not diverse. Watching it will make you less of what the left demands that you be - even less than you already are. And we can’t have that. So don’t watch.
Alpha Phi has “removed” the video, which is hilarious insofar as the attention it’s attracted has prompted it be re-posted to hundreds of YouTube accounts, and consequently embedded all over the Internet at sites like this one. But shame on you if you don’t hate it with every fiber of your being. Just consider:
The six-minute-long clip was published last week to attract potential new recruits ahead the annual sorority rush recruitment event at the university, Mashable reports. The video shows the sorority sisters running around campus in bikinis and football jerseys and putting on makeup, among other things.
Criticism towards the chapter was initially sparked by an op-ed published by writer A.L. Bailey on local news website, AL.com. “It’s all so racially and aesthetically homogeneous and forced, so hyper-feminine, so reductive and objectifying, so Stepford Wives: College Edition. It’s all so … unempowering,” Bailey wrote of the video.
Since then, the video has been reuploaded by countless YouTube users. While commenters panned what they referred to as the video’s sexist undertones, others have defended the video as just being a fun promotion for the group.
A college sorority that’s “hyper-feminine.” Never thought I’d see the day.
I’ll be honest here: I am not a fan of fraternities and sororities at all. Never have been. Despite their claims that they’re really about friendships, professional connections and community service, anyone who’s ever attended college knows that they’re really about getting drunk and partying - and paying for the privilege to do so.
My wife thinks it’s ironic that Animal House is one of my favorite movies, but it’s the very fact that nothing in the film can be taken seriously that makes me like it so much. I wouldn’t want to be around that scene for one second, nor would I want my son around it, so I enjoy the fact that the film depicts everything connected to it spinning completely out of control at the end.
But that’s what’s noteworthy about the criticisms of this video. The issue is not the debauchery that goes on in fraternities and sororities. That’s perfectly fine to the complainers. It’s the fact that the girls are white, and that they act like girls. I suppose if they were prancing around in bikinis (or better yet, topless) and angrily shouting for their right to have abortions, the left would find that admirable. But because they’re white girls and they’re putting on makeup and having fun, (and also because they’re good looking), the video has to be extricated from the consciousness of the nation.
By the way, the black football player doesn’t seem too bothered by the lack of diversity to which he is the conspicuous exception. Nor would anyone expect him to be.
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