Fraternity Sues Wesleyan Over New Coed Requirement

LAMFF · 2015-02-20T00:40:56+00:00

The non-stop invasive feminist assault on male spaces is getting way out of hand.

Frittern · 2015-02-20T00:40:10+00:00

Are the sororities required to go coed?

eletheros · 2015-02-20T02:00:15+00:00

The current mythos is that fraternities do nothing but rape. How could a school care so little for their female students that they set them up like that?

ripple24 · 2015-02-20T00:36:18+00:00

This is how you fight back. Make them justify their discriminatory practices in front of a judge.

Cassius999 · 2015-02-20T00:51:52+00:00

So only the frats become cooed and the sorrorities do not? Discrimination but in effect while some are up for it few women will bunk mixed.

Nkk2 · 2015-02-20T03:57:06+00:00

http://matthewcochran.net/blog/?p=652

The foolishness of this plan for such purposes is, of course, remarkable. In his commentary, Professor Syrett proceeds from the typical feminist assumption that all men are larval rapists, and concludes that fraternities reinforce that tendency through the sheer maleness of the whole endeavor. His solution? Balance all that unseemly masculinity by including women to watch over them and keep them in line. You know, kind of like having their moms around. Only these women will be younger, not related to them at all, and hand-picked from among those who are eager to spend time among popular frat boys in intimate living arrangements. In fact, they sound a good deal like the young women Syrett believes are being violated by fraternities in the first place—the ones who quite obviously did not keep those young rapists in line. But through the magic of inclusiveness and gender equality, I’m sure it’ll turn out totally different this time. Wesleyan’s fraternities will no doubt appreciate having such ready access to a woman’s touch (figuratively speaking, of course) to liven the place up a bit.

Charlotte Allen: Politely Demonizing Men at Wesleyan

I genuinely liked my Wesleyan audience. The students were well-spoken, friendly, and uniformly courteous to me and to each other. No pies were thrown. I had pleasant conversations—even if we could agree on little—with several of them after the speech. But I was flabbergasted at the extent to which they had imbibed the sentiments of a militant and victimology-obsessed brand of feminism. They assumed that young women were so psychically frail that they could be intimidated by a silly chant. They didn't see anything wrong with terminating campus free-speech rights if the speech was deemed offensive and eradicating campus organizations that exercised those rights. They genuinely viewed college fraternities as breeding grounds for unspeakable violence against women.

q_-_p · 2015-02-20T17:01:27+00:00

This is an appalling written article.

It makes no claims to understand to define fraternities in the pragmatic way, and since it only quotes that "women must be accepted" it's impossible to find the source and easily establish if this means women-spaces must become coed.

Thanks to /u/thrway_1000:

The Wesleyan website reads, “Greek life is small at Wes.” There are a small number of fraternities on campus, some with houses and some without. There is only one sorority and it does not have a house. The school already has other co-ed societies. [Link]

It's easy to make a rule that applies to everyone if only one side come under the qualifications of the rule... I don't know. It's hard to see this as there's so much involved: asymmetric populations (frats with houses, srots without) who will eb qualified, how, is this about removing male spaces, or removing all gender isolation?

I bet a srot house would never be told to let guys live there... (and if they did, I bet they'd be abused as fuck... damn can you imagine? lol)

thrway_1000 · 2015-02-20T02:04:14+00:00

The president, James F. Jones Jr., said the decision to make the fraternities and sororities coed was part of a larger effort to change social life at the college for the better. [Link]

It seems to apply to both Fraternities and Sororities.

simplyderping · 2015-02-24T20:32:55+00:00

Just a note...only the fraternities with residential presences are required to co-educate. The university still has single-sex fraternities and sororities without houses. There's only one sorority- formed in 2011 and no new societies are permitted to have houses. All students are required to live on campus. These details make it slightly more complex than simply "an invasion on male spaces". It's more of the university trying to control housing and social spaces.

Title	Fraternity Sues Wesleyan Over New Coed Requirement
Author	ripple24
Upvotes	32
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Date	February 20, 2015 12:35 AM UTC (11 years ago)
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