What people call hazing is much more brutal than just horseplay. In some cases, boys are sodomizing other boys with objects as a form of hazing. Let’s call it what it is: torture.
Our civilization is going to hell on a bullet train.
Right, Dad. So you said nothing and let it happen to other girls. Coward.
When girls get to be just like the guys, it’s not an improvement.
Why bother going to college anymore...they have lowered the qualities to graduate - there are “brick & mortar” socialist professors - and this type of behavior is sick!
University degrees and attendance was once an honor - but we know who - took control of that environment - and look at what happens!
Sororities and Frat houses are dangerous places anymore!
Perhaps if someone is prosecuted, they will get the message. Maybe kidnapping, coercion, assault? I don’t know what would apply, but possibly something can be made to stick, IMHO.
Out of control and in power Lesbos?
One of the core problems here is when everything is tied up in a neat little bow as ‘hazing’, the lines become more blurred. Stripped naked with urine thrown on them is not acceptable and is hazing. As other said, fraternities who force sexualized behavior with other pledges, that is clearly hazing.
Unfortunately, when zero tolerance BS comes in to play and freshman or pledges (or whatever) cannot do menial tasks like cleaning or driving upperclassman because they can be shut down for hazing, it makes the whole scenario worse. When everything is hazing, it opens the door for worse things instead of just going after the really bad stuff.
MADD did the same for driving. If one drink is a DUI, there is no difference between one drink and eight, and people make worse decisions. .08 as a DUI with the same penalties as a person who can’t see straight or walk is counter-productive. In both cases, do-gooders end up doing more harm than good.
I know second hand that such a thing occurred in women’s soccer (the excessive drinking only) at a prestigious university in Durham, NC, back in the mid-2000s.
Many, many years ago at a college I will not name, a volleyball player’s parents visited her for parents weekend.
After watching the teams two games in which she did not play, her dad confronted her as to why that was the case since she was much better than some of her teammates who played in the matches. It was then that her daughter told him that if a player wasn’t a lesbian, they were, discriminated against, didn’t get playing time, and were not selected for the travelling team.
Her dad decided to stay an extra day to visit the office of the president of the university. By the end of the day, the coaching staff was fired, a new coach hired, and soon thereafter, playing time was based on merit.
Many years ago, there was also a scandal in a particular university’s softball program involving significant conflict between the lesbian and straight players that was so bad the president on the university cancelled the season mid-way through the schedule.
There was also the case of a volleyball coach at a BIG major conference school, who was fired about ten matches into a season while ranked in the top 10 in the nation. She was caught having a VERY personal relationship with one or more of her players.
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