(Assuming this isn't a troll post) - A fraternity asked a male prostitute to give handjobs to 15 pledges to "make them uncomfortable." Can you imagine the carnage if a sorority asked a prostitute to finger female pledges for the same purpose?

lolkittah · 2010-11-27T15:03:10+00:00

Yuck. I'm not in the US, so the whole idea of fraternities and sororities baffles me. People are seriously willing to be humiliated to ... make friends? I get the whole teasing/joking/pranking bonding thing, but that's pretty off. And lolkittah says it is not all that different for women? Why do they all put up with that? Cliques are for high school. College is for adults.

heyfella · 2010-11-27T13:55:28+00:00

i find it amusing when frat boys claim that a 15 dudes getting jerked off by a male prostitute is not gay.

mjfd · 2010-11-27T14:07:35+00:00

I don't understand this system. There is no way I would tolerate this kind of behaviour forced upon me (Not because i'm homophobic or anything like that, if I say no, I mean no) in order to gain acceptance into something. It baffles me that this is considered normal.

lolkittah · 2010-11-27T13:17:28+00:00

Having posted this, I know sororities do some horrible things to their members as well. I went to a big state school with a "Greek" system and you'd hear about women going through some epic sexual shit at the hands of their sororities.

But still, I completely believe that this would pass far less easily if it had been done to women.

I don't know what the general view in MR is about fraternities and sororities of the stereotypical sort, but from what I saw at college, their sexual politics, power plays and abuse is really quite awful.

cuteman · 2010-11-27T22:59:56+00:00

I think it varies house to house, school to school.

This seems like something that would happen at a top 500 school and perhaps a frat house in the bottom half of popularity with bulling assholes running pledge quarter. Depending how seriously those running initiation take the idea of "brotherhood" it could be harvard style cocktails by the fire discussing attractive females or a bunch of guys who dont even respect themselves drunk on natty ice abusing their pledges like this sounds like.

Some have institutionalized honor, some doing the most fucked up shit they can think of... with shades of gray

hotsauce285 · 2010-11-29T12:56:38+00:00

and it never occurred to them that maybe one of the pledges were gay and wouldn't mind

cuteman · 2010-11-27T14:40:12+00:00

This would never happen in a sorority. Most of the girls are taught sex is bad. Their parents do not want them to get pregnant too early so they make them scared of sex. Later on, they reinforce this belief with each other as if it was some sort of an ancient rule. The first person to call a girl slut is usually another girl. Not being ashamed of your sexuality is hard when they put you in a herd full of people who are. Once a sorority does something like this, women can finally consider themselves equal to men.

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