Sororities and Feminism

[33girl]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

Someone asked upthread:

WHAT IS RAPE CULTURE?
In a rape culture, people are surrounded with images, language, laws, and other everyday phenomena that validate and perpetuate, rape. Rape culture includes jokes, TV, music, advertising, legal jargon, laws, words and imagery, that make violence against women and sexual coercion seem so normal that people believe that rape is inevitable. Rather than viewing the culture of rape as a problem to change, people in a rape culture think about the persistence of rape as “just the way things are.”

That sounds like the definitions of hazing that are stretchier than Grandma's underwear.

Originally Posted by BabyPiNK_FL

*Although sometimes I lean more toward womanist due to the lack of inclusion of women of color.

EXACTLY my point. You shouldn't have to feel that way. Many of the kind of feminists that I don't like go on and on about smash the patriarchy, but are so sheltered from the real world that they would run screaming the other way if they actually had to talk to (OMG) a person of color.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by 33girl

That sounds like the definitions of hazing that are stretchier than Grandma's underwear.

Well, yes, you can, as a thought experiment, use it to include anything from a fashion magazine (objectifying women) to a strongman competition (promoting over-masculinity). But it's probably not useful to this conversation to try to encompass all those things, when there are so many direct lines.

For example, Total Frat Move:

"I’m not sexist. Being sexist is wrong, and being wrong is for women. TFM."

"“I’m not saying she’s a whore, but if her vagina had a password, it would be ‘password.’”

"Convincing her to break her New Year's resolution, and then telling her she can't sleep over because it would break yours."

and total sorority move:

"Being the biggest drunken mess Saturday night, but the most impeccably dressed Sunday at chapter."

"Just drink until it’s not awkward anymore."

"Dear New Year's Eve, please give me back my dignity and my shoes."