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Originally Posted by DrPhil
It works both ways. Teach both women and men to be safe; and teach both women and men how not to victimize others.
Don't some NPC chapters talk to members about campus safety including sexual assault, rape, and other violence? Why shouldn't fraternity chapters do the same thing? That should actually be a campus-wide lesson (as it is for female and male students at some campuses) rather than only letting organizations teach that.
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I concur with your first paragraph.
And yes, Greeks probably do hear more about it than the average student, just as they probably hear more about eating disorders and binge drinking than the average student. It all depends where it's coming from. If your national GLO has a program on EDs and how to prevent them, then that is part of what you're paying dues for - programming to improve your life and educate you as a woman. If Butthead U holds an open to the campus program on EDs and sorority women are required by the school to attend or else their chapter gets penalized, that's beyond offensive.
When fraternities and sororities were initially founded, a lot of their mission was to provide programming to educate on issues like these (not these same issues, but you get my drift). As the schools took over more and more of that duty, the Greeks let it go. IMO it's time for Greeks to start providing more of these services for their members again, as the programming schools provide is often very prejudicial where Greeks are concerned.
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