Re: This is why fraternities should not be allowed on college campuses

There are plenty of other reasons to support no fraternities.

Priority Reason #1 - Sexual assault and date rape come to mind.

"Studies have found fraternity men are three times more likely to rape women than nonaffiliated classmates. Most gang rapes reported on campus are tied to fraternities. Women in sororities are 74% more likely to be raped than other college women."

Fraternity men are more likely to commit rape than other college men (Bleeker & Murnen, 2005;Boeringer, 1999).

While not all fraternity members are rapists, men who join fraternities are three times more likely to rape compared to men who do not join fraternities (Foubert et al., 2007)

Compared to their peers on college campuses, fraternity men are more likely to believe that women enjoy being physically “roughed up,” that women pretend not to want sex but want to be forced into sex, that men should be controllers of relationships, that sexually liberated women are promiscuous and will probably have sex with anyone, and that women secretly desire to be raped (Boeringer, 1999).

Qualitative research suggests that fraternity culture includes group norms that reinforce within group attitudes perpetuating sexual coercion against women. These cultural norms have the potential to exert powerful influences on men’s behavior (Boswell & Spade; 1996)

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So as a father of two daughters, I hope more Moms and Dads are teaching, raising and rearing their boys to respect girls/women and to be true gentlemen and not sexual predators.

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Dec 2, 2023, 1:15 AM

Yeah, I'm not a fan of this at all. I'm no PETA supporter, and I believe that slaughtering livestock is a normal and necessary part of agriculture, but there's a right way and a wrong way to go about it, and this really just makes me sad. When you slaughter a cow (or any animal for that matter) to be eaten, it needs to be done ethically, meaning quickly and with proper technique so that the animal is not made to suffer or experience pain. I (and many others) also believe in a certain level of principle: that when you slaughter an animal, it should be for a practical purpose, such as the use of its meat, hide, etc., and respect should still be shown. Simply killing an animal for the sake of killing as some type of cruel joke is a terrible thing to do in my opinion. To reference what someone else mentioned in the thread, if someone wants to properly slaughter a chicken, cow, or other appropriate animal that they legally own or have purchased to eat in honor of a rivalry series, that's fine by me. But killing a cow just for the sake of doing so, carving up its body with derogatory words, and then leaving it out on a lawn is really just an act of cruelty that should have never been done, and I feel sad for the animal. I just hope that they slaughtered the cow properly so that it didn't have to be in pain. I find it particularly disturbing that this was an agriculture fraternity that did this. They, of all people, should know the things I just listed, and ought to be ambassadors of the importance of ethical and proper treatment of livestock, which farmers understand the importance of more than anyone else. Just a really sad situation all round.

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