Party with no girls

[VandalSquirrel]

Originally Posted by Elephant Walk

I mean, only one suggested objectification of women.

IFC asks for a name for the party when it being registered. They don't allow "gangster" parties...for the objectification reasons...even though "gangster" really doesn't necessarily any specific type of person. I'm pretty sure there was alot of Italian gangsters for those parties. But most people get around that sort of thing by simply naming it something else on the application sheet.

A theme isn't required for a party...really. But it's just standard fare at the University of Arkansas. The only parties that aren't themed are just hall parties that the University doesn't know about.

The fact that IFC (pressure from University Administration?) requires a theme is what is interesting to me as they are adding something extra beyond registration and saying "hey we're having a party." If people are naming it something else on the sheet then it seems pointless to require a theme or have rules about it. Granted even without an unimaginative title the same costumes will be worn, so it seems so extra for something that is ineffective as prevention.

Not that anyone can keep anything secret as someone always posts it on Facebook these days.

ETA: I'm owning my righteous indignation against crappy themes since I never participated in them. I will admit going to one fraternity party that had a sex/lingerie theme as a friend invited me and I was going to say hello and then meet my boyfriend. It was cold outside and I had on jeans, boots, and a North Face fleece, and the party pics were hysterical as a few women from another chapter were dressed similarly and the other women in the photos appeared to have come straight from a Frederick's of Hollywood catalog shoot. There were police calls that night about prostitutes and strippers walking the streets from concerned town residents. I also would like to point out the contradiction of the poster asking for themes as he made a point of saying in a Greek Life forum thread men in The South treated women as Southern Belles and no Southern Gentleman I have ever met or associated with would ask me to a party or throw one where I had to dress like a prostitute. Granted these men have interacted with me outside of The South for the most part, but my Idaho boys think it is distasteful as well as they have mothers and sisters they respect.

I digress but as I've mentioned before I've gone to parties with themes that are executed well, so I'm not against themes, just against crappy overplayed themes (says the woman who made an oven out of a cardboard box and went to an Authors party as Sylvia Plath and her date was Sherman Alexie).