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Online is a powerful tool for these types of predators to help spread these types of harassment.
Why are you downplaying this?
Not downplaying anything - I’m saying frats are, and have been, an accepted scourge on college campuses forever, and where fratboys and jocks congregate there will be oppression and/or violence against women at least. Usually racism too, but that’s slightly more variable.
Yes, as with everything else social media has made it unfathomably worse, but this isn’t unexpected. Just because they’ve found a novel and more efficient way to be shitheads to everyone doesn’t mean they weren’t before Xitter. They most assuredly were.
One can’t be surprised about this any more than one can be surprised that a baby shot themselves after finding a gun. It happens more now, and we hear about it more now, but it was an inevitable result. Should something be done? Well - yeah. Something should have been done fifty years - 100 years ago.
Why is it inevitable that young women will be harassed and terrorized by men?
Why can't we say something about this? Why can't we work to stop this?
Why? Because parents do the best they can and many are not very good. Because many social institutions tend to treat young men as a powerful force to be wielded, and that’s about it. Because football, trucks, meat, and alcohol define so many places. Because we have nothing transcendental to believe in together as a society.
We can and are doing something about this but the root of this story is exactly what I first said. Nothing new under the sun. Where did all these ICE assholes come from? A Venn diagram would overlap considerably with frats and jocks, i’m sure. Patriarchy is a bitch.
What do you think it does to shrug your shoulders and say "it's always been like this"?
Whose shrugging? I’m agreeing!
THIS IS A VERY GOOD ARTICLE AND AN IMPORTANT ISSUE FOR EVERYONE.
You again :)
Your first comment set a tone of dismissiveness. That's why the reaction.
It’s dismissive that anyone expecting more from frats or the manosphere should seriously adjust that expectation. Whatever percieved good they may do does not support maintaining them.
We can expect men to do better.
And have been. For a very long time.