Stupid Frat Joke

[Dr. Cheese]

Disgusting UVM Fraternity Questionnaire Sparks Outrage


Any organization joking about rape is just stupid.

[MJ5150]

Caught this on my local news. Surely will be what everyone is talking about at the coffee shop in the morning, and where I stop for breakfast.

-Mike

[Jinro]

I consider fraternities to be stupid period.

[jmattbassplaya]

If you think this is bad then you probably have no clue what goes on in almost any given fraternity house on almost any given night...

[PSPookie]

Originally Posted by jmattbassplaya

If you think this is bad then you probably have no clue what goes on in almost any given fraternity house on almost any given night...

Let's not paint them all with the same brush. I was in a fraternity and while we got into plenty of mischief, we generally treated women with respect.

Of course, that may have something to do with going to Ga Tech at a time when it was still 75% male.

[MatticusMania]

Im no fan of any article where the author addresses the reader as "ya'll".

Also, this sentence "It’s actually kind of nerdy and cute, until you get to the final three “personal questions.”" strikes me as odd, when the only really offending question is the last one.

1. Where in public would I want to have sex?

2. Who’s my favorite artist?

3. If I could rape someone, who would it be?

I find nothing wrong with the first two, but see how that last one could raise some eyebrows. I wont be signing the petetion, though.

[Actium]

The others were listed to show how nonchalant the last question was. As if it was not an obvious joke.

[SoonerMatt]

So this is the result of Sig Ep's "Balanced Man" chapter initiative

Like Pookie said, you shouldn't paint all fraternities as the same. There's a huge difference between frat boys and fraternity men, and my house definitely instilled the latter. We always treated women with respect, I'd gotten into a fight with frat boys from a different house (Pikes....) when they tried date raping one of my friends, and if anyone from our chapter tried that we'd have kicked them out in an instant.

[i_got_a_mohawk]

Never really got the frat thing, don't really get them over here.

[kserg]

Seriously?

That just wasted a minute of my life...

[MatticusMania]

Originally Posted by i_got_a_mohawk

Never really got the frat thing, don't really get them over here.

Theyre starting points for some that lead to bigger things. A lot of it is shaking hands and taking names and making contacts for the future.

[i_got_a_mohawk]

Originally Posted by MatticusMania

Theyre starting points for some that lead to bigger things. A lot of it is shaking hands and taking names and making contacts for the future.

Good for networking and such I guess?

Are frats just specific to the university they are located, or are they linked across the country? Would Delta Tau Chi be an independant house, or would it be related to any Delta Tau Chi's at other institutes?

(sorry, my knowledge of frat houses is limited to Animal House and Revenge of the Nerds )

[SoonerMatt]

Fraternities have national headquarters and brothers from other chapters are meant to be treated as equals. However, with very few exceptions (IME Pike and Sigma Chi) most chapters are different.

[MakiSupaStar]

In other news I have a twelver of Racer 5 IPA cooling in my man cave fridge.

[MatticusMania]

Originally Posted by i_got_a_mohawk

Good for networking and such I guess?

Are frats just specific to the university they are located, or are they linked across the country? Would Delta Tau Chi be an independant house, or would it be related to any Delta Tau Chi's at other institutes?

(sorry, my knowledge of frat houses is limited to Animal House and Revenge of the Nerds )

My knowledge of frats on college campuses is as well, so Im not sure if chapters are linked across the country (maybe even globe) but ROTN led me to believe they might be.

But, I think being a part of a fraternity extends beyond the college campus. Ive heard businessmen make mention of what fraternity they belonged to in conversation. There are also fraternities that arent associated with colleges like the Lions Club and organizations like that.

[PSPookie]

Most fraternities are national or international. Each chapter will typically have a greek alphabetical designation following the name of the national fraternity.

eg: I am a member of Phi Kappa Sigma, Alpha Nu Chapter (Ga Tech).

[Eric Perry]

Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar

In other news I have a twelver of Racer 5 IPA cooling in my man cave fridge.

Okay now I'm interested!

[jmattbassplaya]

Originally Posted by PSPookie

Let's not paint them all with the same brush. I was in a fraternity and while we got into plenty of mischief, we generally treated women with respect.

Of course, that may have something to do with going to Ga Tech at a time when it was still 75% male.

Fair enough. But being in a fraternity myself, and playing in a band that gets hired by many fraternities both at my college and others close by, you do see and hear plenty of things that make this question seem rather tamed and almost common place

Also, I think GA Tech is roughly the same still. My ex goes there and I think she said the number was something around 68% male. I could be wrong, and she could of been over hyping the number just because she's in the aeronautics program

[jp58]

Silly feminists. Honestly, the question was probably (hopefully) meant as a joke. I don't know, though, nor do I care. It's not as thought the Fraternity is openly advocating rape, which is what the article implies.

[MatticusMania]

Originally Posted by jp58

Silly feminists. Honestly, the question was probably (hopefully) meant as a joke.

Im sure it was included as a joke, but still its a pretty stupid question to ask at best, and incredibly offensive (if it got out to others, which it did) at worst. Feminists are not the only people offended by rape.