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Originally posted by sugar and spice
And carnation, regardless of whether or not the incident in the letter actually happened as reported -- it does happen in fraternity houses (and, of course, non-Greek houses and dorms) across the country. I think those of you who think this was written by somebody with an anti-Greek agenda are both paranoid and delusional. The fact of the matter is that fraternity men are not always angels, some of them are rapists, and that, in fact, some reports have shown that they are more likely to be rapists than the general male college population. Is it fair to paint all fraternity men as rapists? No. But is it fair to paint all fraternity men as Boy Scouts? Again, no.
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Excuse me? I am neither paranoid nor delusional. I have far more experience in the college arena than you have, having been a professor for 25 years and a college student through 3 degrees.
I would never paint all fraternity members as angels nor would I paint all independent men as angels. I would say they're about the same on the angelic ladder.
The reason I think that the letter is fake is that, as I mentioned, no rational mother is going to sit around and debate with herself as to whether it was rape. She'll take the daughter for medical help and/or go to the police but she won't sit around and compose a letter to Dear Abby and wait weeks for an answer.
Also, my years of working with languages and their patterns are running up a big red flag. No one who is currently the age to be a teen's mother is going to use the strangely "older" language that this letter writer is using. I call BS on this one.
And yes, such a situation could happen and has. However, this particular letter is poorly written and is full of credibility gaps. Look for it to turn up in some lame book that warns parents against letting their kids pledge...it'll come with a warning:"Dear Abby says the Greek life is dangerous!"
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